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Brockton plans to buy fairgrounds: OA has new athletic director: 5 top stories last week
BROCKTON − The Brockton Fairgrounds grandstand came down, just days before City Councilor-at-large Winthrop Farwell Jr. announced in a Facebook post that the city would move to take control of the 66-acre property. Here's how much the city would compensate the longtime owners for each of six parcels, for a total payment of $53,401,165.
ESPN touted the Brockton native AJ Dybantsa as its No. 1 freshman basketball player in the country. Dybantsa earned Gatorade Player of the Year honors at St. Sebastian’s in March, and won a gold medal with the Team USA U16 team in Mexico in June.
Merry MacDonald is taking over as Oliver Ames' new athletic director. MacDonald, a 2006 Braintree High graduate, was a three-sport standout for the Wamps on the softball diamond and both the basketball and volleyball courts.
In case you missed it, here are five stories of the top stories from the past week throughout the Brockton area.
How much would fairgrounds purchase cost Brockton taxpayers?
The old fairgrounds cover 66 acres at the city's southwestern gateway. They're among the last large undeveloped areas of Brockton. City officials aim to take it off the Carney family for more than $53 million, according to initial figures floated by Mayor Robert F. Sullivan. If the deal goes through, the city would craft a master plan and likely put parts of the sprawling area to different uses. Some might be sold off while others could become senior housing or recreation areas.
How much would fairgrounds purchase costHow much would fairgrounds purchase cost Brockton taxpayers?
'Very emotional':'Very emotional': Brockton Fairgrounds grandstand demolished, city plans to purchase land
Former Braintree High state champion takes over as Oliver Ames' new athletic director
Merry MacDonald has been there and done that. Now, she’s seeking to pass it on to the next generation. In her high school playing days, MacDonald, a 2006 Braintree High graduate, was a three-sport standout for the Wamps on the softball diamond and both the basketball and volleyball courts. After a decade as the head softball coach and assistant athletic director at Fitchburg State, MacDonald recently announced a triumphant return to the local high school sports scene in a new role. This time, at an advanced point in her life and career, as Oliver Ames High’s athletic director.
New Oliver Ames Athletic directorFormer Braintree High state champion takes over as Oliver Ames' new athletic director
Man carjacked near Halloran Park in Stoughton after responding to online ad
Stoughton police responded to a carjacking Monday night near Halloran Park, Police Chief Donna McNamara said. The carjacking occurred shortly before 6 p.m., when the victim, a 40-year-old man, responded to an online ad of someone seeking plumbing assistance. But when the victim pulled up to the address, near the intersection of Pierce and Leach streets, no one was there. After the victim called the person who had requested plumbing services, a Black man with a stocky build approached the victim’s white Jeep Grand Cherokee, brandishing a gun, police said. After taking the uninjured victim’s wallet and cellphone, the carjacker drove away at a high speed.
Man carjacked in StoughtonMan carjacked near Halloran Park in Stoughton after responding to online ad
EB's Schlossberg will swing for the fences at MLB stadium in Little League Home Run Derby
Molly Schlossberg, a 12-year-old softball player from East Bridgewater, will be competing in the Little League Home Run Derby at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, home to the Royals, on Sunday. Schlossberg will be swinging for the fences in the softball East Regionals. She won't be the only local, as Plymouth's Cole Campbell and fellow EB native Andrew Coates will compete on the baseball side of the event. Schlossberg's appearance marks the third consecutive year that an EB softball player has reached this stage. Molly's older sister, Maggie, competed two years ago, and Olivia Atkins went last year.
Schlossberg will swing for the fences:EB's Schlossberg will swing for the fences at MLB stadium in Little League Home Run Derby
Photos:PHOTOS: Molly Schlossberg headed to Little League Home Run Derby
Hundreds flock to Norton to get whiff of giant corpse flower in all its fully stinky glory
More than 300 people, some from as far away as the Berkshires, traveled to Wheaton College’s greenhouse in Norton to watch a rare giant corpse flower bloom over the weekend — or perhaps we should we say to "smell" it bloom. The giant flower only blooms after many years and smells like rotting flesh when it does. It was the first time the almost 10-year old plant, affectionately dubbed "Whiff," has bloomed since it was first acquired by the college in 2017.
Hundreds get whiff of corpse flower::Hundreds flock to Norton to get whiff of giant corpse flower in all its full stinky glory
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KHAR, Pakistan — KHAR, Pakistan (AP) — A powerful bomb ripped through a rally by supporters of a hard-line cleric and political leader in the country’s northwestern Bajur district that borders Afghanistan on Sunday, police and health officials said. At least 35 people were killed and more than 100 wounded.
Senior police officer Nazir Khan said the workers convention of Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s Jamiat Ulema Islam party was taking place on the outskirts of Khar, the capital of Bajur district, when the explosion took place.
Initially police said 10 people were killed but later more bodies were moved to a hospital bringing the death toll to 35. He said some of the wounded were taken to the city’s main hospital in critical condition and the death toll could increase.
Azam Khan, head of the emergency room at Khar’s main hospital, said 35 bodies were brought to the hospital and some wre taken back by relatives while the number of wounded was now more than 100 as those who earlier went to near small clinics for medical aid consequently brought to the main government hospital.
Government administrator Mohibullah Khan Yousufzai also said death toll rose to 35 and the number of wounded was well over 100. He said the serious wounded people were being airlifted to provincial capital, Peshawar, for better medical care.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but the Islamic State group operates across the border in Afghanistan.
Maulana Ziaullah, the local chief of Rehman’s party, was among the dead. Senator Abdur Rasheed and former lawmaker Maulana Jamaluddin was also on the stage but escaped unhurt. Party officials said Rehman was not in the rally.
Rehman is considered to be a pro-Taliban cleric and his political party is part of the coalition government in Islamabad. It is not known whether Rehman was present. Meetings are being organized across the country to mobilize supporters for the coming elections.
Bajur, once used to be a tribal region but now a district, has been a safe haven for Islamic militants until recent years when Pakistani military carried out massive operations to eliminate militancy from the tribal region. Militants still strike attacking security forces and civilians often.
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Riaz Khan reported from Peshawar, Pakistan.
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The Minnesota Vikings and three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Danielle Hunter have agreed to terms on a new deal, the team announced Sunday.
Hunter will remain with the team on a one-year deal worth $20 million with $17 million guaranteed, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport. This was reportedly agreed upon late Saturday night and also includes a clause to prevent the Vikings from placing the franchise tag on Hunter after this season.
Vikings, pass rusher Danielle Hunter agree to terms on a 1-year, $20M deal including $17M guaranteed. (via @TomPelissero, @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/5U8o5wiAsH
— NFL (@NFL) July 30, 2023
This development comes after the Vikings were reportedly looking at options to move the 28-year-old pass rusher, per ESPN.
Hunter was set to earn $5.5 million this season. It would have been the last year of his five-year, $70 million extension, a deal that was reworked two offseasons ago.
Hoping to negotiate for more money, he reportedly skipped the voluntary offseason workout program and mandatory minicamp but did report to 2023 Vikings Training Camp by the veterans' deadline last Tuesday.
Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell told reporters on Saturday he was communicating with Hunter every day. "We're still kind of in that on-going process," O'Connell said, via NFl
"I'm having daily dialogue personally with him. My hope is we continue to work towards [finding common ground] over the course of a long training camp. He's played a lot of football, he'll be ready to go."
Now, he'll play another season and earn a salary reflective of his production before he becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Last season, Hunter recorded 10.5 sacks, marking his first double-digit sack season since 2019. His 70 pressures were also a high since 2019. He only played in seven games during the 2021 season due to a torn pectoral muscle.
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MUNCIE, Ind. — (AP) — A shooting at a large party in Indiana early Sunday morning left one person dead, police said. A hospital said 19 people were being treated for injuries at its facility.
Muncie police responded to multiple reports of gunfire on the city's east side just after 1 a.m., The Star Press reported. Police said in a news release that there was no active threat to the community and that "multiple" victims were injured, including some critically.
“Due to the number of victims and nature of the incident, multiple agencies were contacted to assist,” Muncie Deputy Police Chief Melissa Criswell said in a statement sent to The Star Press.
Police did not say how many people were injured, but officials at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie told The Associated Press that 19 victims were treated in their emergency department for injuries related to the shooting, and 13 remained at the hospital in stabilized condition Sunday morning. Criswell said some victims sustained critical injuries and were transferred by medical helicopter to other facilities.
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DENVER — (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation's poorest neighborhoods, doesn't have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that," he said. “If it’s hard to breath, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered it's 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn't have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours."
It's the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there's also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She's taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation's eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don't offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America's low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos' Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit's white households don't have air conditioning; it's 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family."
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don't have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn't pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver's Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it's not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can't afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price," she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it's hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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GENEVA — Swiss police said that the remains of a German climber who has been missing for nearly forty years were found by climbers earlier this month as ice was melting by the Matterhorn mountain.
Police have not publicly identified the 38-year-old German man that went missing in September 1986. Police say that they were unable to locate him at the time of his disappearance, according to The Associated Press.
Climbers on the Theodul glacier which is by the Italy border found the man’s remains on July 12. The AP reported that the man’s remains were taken to a hospital in the area for analysis. Genetic testing was conducted and police did identify him.
“The bodies of mountaineers whose disappearance was reported decades ago are increasingly turning up due to the receding glaciers,” law enforcement said, according to the Washington Post. The reason is because of global warming - rising temperatures and glaciers that are melting. In that melting process, the remains are getting uncovered and the climbing is getting more dangerous.
The Matterhorn is a pyramid-shaped mountain that is about 14,692 feet high, according to the Post. It lies between the Switzerland and Italy borders.
At least 500 people have died trying to climb the Matterhorn, as of 2011. The Post says the Matterhorn’s death toll is “significantly higher” than that of Mount Everest which is the tallest peak in the world being that it is over 29,000 feet high.
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APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. — Police said they found two donkeys wandering around a roadway in Apache Junction, Arizona over the weekend.
Apache Junction Police Department on Twitter described an encounter with two donkeys Saturday as “unexpected.”
“Our vigilant patrol officers couldn’t believe their eyes when they stumbled upon these adorable donkeys crossing the road,” police said.
The donkeys were trying to cross the road by 12th and Goldfield in Apache Junction, according to KTVK.
The news outlet said that the donkeys were eventually reunited with their owners. The donkeys were also not injured.
Temperatures in Arizona have been over the 100s last few weeks and as much of the country has been under extreme heat warnings as July is expected to be the world’s hottest month on record.
🚓Unexpected Morning Encounter🐴🛣️Our vigilant patrol officers couldn't believe their eyes when they stumbled upon these adorable donkeys crossing the road near 12th/Goldfield! Acting swiftly, they gathered them up and happily reunited them with their owners #AJAnimalAdventures pic.twitter.com/v2ATM73oEw
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MOSCOW — (AP) — Ten people — including three children — died after high winds tore through central Russia, emergency services and a local official reported Sunday.
Eight of the dead were part of a group of tourists camping close to Lake Yalchik in the Mari-El region when the storm hit Saturday, Russia’s emergencies ministry said.
The strong winds caused a large number of trees to fall in the area, including where the group’s tents had been pitched on a stretch of wild beach inside the Mariy Chodra National Park, regional leader Yuri Zaitsev wrote on social media. He said that three children were among the dead. Russia's investigative committee has opened a criminal case to determine whether unsafe or sub-standard services provided by the park's management company contributed to the deaths.
Across the wider Volga Federal District, 76 people were injured in the storm, with thousands of households losing power, emergency services said.
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TORONTO — (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from hospital Saturday evening.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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FUKUOKA, Japan — (AP) — Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh should be a star at next year’s Paris Olympics, and she showed why Sunday on the closing day of the swimming world championships in Japan.
The 16-year-old McIntosh won her second gold of the event, taking the 400-meter individual medley after winning the 200 butterfly gold on Friday.
That made up for a slow start for the young Canadian, who finished fourth in the 400 free, where she held the world record until Australia's Ariarne Titmus took it back. She also took bronze in the 200 free, at least getting a medal.
“Going into tonight I just wanted to see how hard I could push myself,” McIntosh said.
She did just that. Her time of 4 minutes, 27.11 seconds was the third fastest ever, not far off her world record of 4:25.87. She was also the defending world champion. American Katie Grimes took the silver in 4:31.41, with Jenna Forrester of Australia picking up the bronze in 4:32.30.
“It was definitely motivating,” McIntosh said of her first few days. “I try to turn everything that goes wrong into motivation somehow.”
Asked about Paris, she replied: “Right now I'm just thinking about a little break.”
McIntosh should be joined by other young stars in Paris like 21-year-old Frenchman Leon Marchand and Australia's 22-year-old Kaylee McKeown. Marchand and McKeown each won three individual golds.
The Americans also closed fast.
After winning only four gold medals during the first seven days, they picked up three on the eighth and final day for a total of seven golds and 38 overall. The gold total is still their lowest in a worlds going back for around 20 years. They won only eight in the 2015 worlds.
Australia finished with 13 gold and 20 overall, and China had five gold and 16 overall.
“This is the cherry on top,” said American Regan Smith, part of the winning 4x100 women’s medley relay. “I love racing with these girls and I love relays so much and brining home a gold in the last event for Team USA means so much to me and all of us.”
The Americans finished in 3:52.08, followed by Australia (3:53.37) and Canada (3:54.12).
The United States also won the men’s 4x100 medley in 3:27.20, ahead of China (3:29.00) and Australia (3:29.62), and added another gold with Hunter Armstrong in the 50-meter backstroke (24.05).
Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden made history with her victory in the women’s 50-meter freestyle. The gold gave Sjostrom 21 medals in individual races in the world championships, surpassing Michael Phelps who had 20.
Sjostrom, who set the world record in the semifinals on Saturday, powered home in the final 25 meters for the win, clocking 23.62. Shayna Jack of Australia picked up the silver in 24.10, while Zhang Yufei of China earned the bronze in 24.15.
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania set a world record on the way to winning gold in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke in 29.16. She equaled the old world mark of 29.30 the night before in the semifinals.
Meilutyte grabbed the early lead and was never challenged. American Lilly King claimed the silver in 29.94, while Benedetta Pilato of Italy picked up the bronze in 30.04. She shared the old record of 29.30 with Meilutyte.
Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia added the men’s 1,500-meter free gold to the 800 free he won earlier in the worlds, prevailing in an epic battle with American Bobby Finke that went down to the wire.
The 20-year-old Hafnaoui, the defending 400 free Olympic champion, captured the gold in 14:31.54, with Finke clocking 14:31.59 for silver. Sam Short of Australia rounded out the podium with the bronze in 14:37.28.
The mark was just off the world record by Sun Yang of China, 14:31.02, set in 2012. Sun has been suspended for a doping violation.
“Bobby (Finke) is so fast at the end of the race. he pushed us to do the 14.31," Hafnaoui said. "It was so close to the world record. I mean I enjoyed the race and thanks Bobby for pushing me.”
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — (AP) — Defending Formula One champion Max Verstappen emphatically won the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday for an eighth straight win and 10th overall of a crushingly dominant season.
Despite starting from sixth place he finished 22.3 seconds ahead of teammate Sergio Perez to give Red Bull an easy 1-2. It moved Verstappen ominously closer to a third straight world title and his own F1 record of 15 wins from last year.
Verstappen is 125 points ahead of Perez after just 12 races, and his next target is matching Sebastian Vettel’s F1 record of nine straight wins with a victory at the Dutch GP when the lopsided season resumes on Aug. 27.
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc finished in third spot for a third podium of the season, with Lewis Hamilton in fourth for Mercedes ahead of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.
George Russell was sixth for Mercedes, with Lando Norris (McLaren), Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), and Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) completing the top 10.
Leclerc started on pole ahead of Perez, with Hamilton and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. behind them. McLaren rookie Oscar Piastri was on the next row alongside Verstappen — who was fastest in Friday's qualifying but took a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change and had to avoid early traffic.
“It was just about surviving turn one. I could see it was all getting really tight,” Verstappen said. “I’ve been in that position before myself so I am just going to stay out of that and it worked out. From there onwards I made the right overtakes.”
Last year Verstappen won from 14th, and once he overtook Perez on Lap 17 of 44 his 45th career win was seemingly inevitable.
Red Bull extended its record to 13 straight wins, including the final race of last season.
Hamilton came in on the penultimate lap for a tire change and the move paid off as he took the bonus point for fastest lap from Verstappen — a very minor blip for the dominant Dutchman.
It was yet another stellar weekend for Verstappen, who also won Saturday's sprint race. The only issue was some more bickering with his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase over radio, as they continued their spat from Friday's qualifying.
“Don’t forget Max, use your head, please,” Lambiase told Verstappen when he questioned why Perez was making his first tire change on Lap 14.
With some rain forecast, Verstappen boxed on the next lap and came out about 2 seconds behind Perez. Just minutes later he cruised past Perez and, as so often this season, the rest was just about control.
Perez, meanwhile, pledged to stay on the podium for the rest of the season.
“It’s been a bit of a rough patch," the 33-year-old Mexican said. "I really need this summer break, it’s been really intense. I’ll come back really strong for Zandvoort.”
Conditions were dry for the race start, in stark contrast to the two previous days, which were impacted by heavy rain at the 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
Leclerc, who won his first F1 race here in 2019, made a solid start but Perez’s extra pace soon put him in front. Verstappen rose two places to fourth after Sainz bumped into Piastri on the first corner.
Piastri had to retire, while Verstappen overtook Hamilton on Lap 6, Leclerc three laps later and made short work of Perez just before some rain fell briefly.
Some good overtaking from Ocon moved the Frenchman up from 10th to eighth in the closing stages.
It was an early end for Piastri, who had impressed with a second place in Saturday’s sprint race.
A bad day for Sainz saw him retiring on Lap 25 and Leclerc moving above him in the standings.
“Of course the race was good on my side, a shame for Carlos as we had good pace,” Leclerc said. "When you look at the Red Bulls we still have a lot of work to do.”
After the F1 break there will be 10 races left, but most of the competition for places will be behind Verstappen.
Alonso is one point ahead of Hamilton in third overall, with Leclerc and Russell level and Sainz seven points behind them.
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Rangers vs. Padres Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's game between the San Diego Padres (51-54) and Texas Rangers (60-45) squaring off at PETCO Park has a projected final score of 5-3 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Padres, so it should be a competitive matchup. The game will begin at 4:10 PM ET on July 30.
The probable starters are Blake Snell (7-8) for the Padres and Cody Bradford (2-1) for the Rangers.
Rangers vs. Padres Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:10 PM ET
- Where: PETCO Park in San Diego, California
- How to Watch on TV: SDPA
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Rangers vs. Padres Score Prediction
Our pick for this contest is Padres 5, Rangers 4.
Total Prediction for Rangers vs. Padres
- Total Prediction: Under 9 runs
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Rangers Performance Insights
- In six games as the underdog over the last 10 matchups, the Rangers have posted a mark of 2-4.
- In its last 10 matchups with a total posted by sportsbooks, Texas and its foes are 5-5-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
- Oddsmakers have yet to post a spread in any of the Rangers' past 10 games.
- The Rangers have come away with 17 wins in the 34 contests they have been listed as the underdogs in this season.
- This will be the worst odds to win that sportsbooks have placed on Texas this season with a +165 moneyline set for this game.
- The Rangers have an implied victory probability of 37.7% according to the moneyline set by sportsbooks for this matchup.
- Texas scores the most runs in baseball (606 total, 5.8 per game).
- Rangers pitchers have a combined ERA of 4.23 ERA this year, which ranks 16th in MLB.
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Florida man kills neighbor's dog • Florida child arrested for fake 911 text • Hundreds of FL teachers resign
A Florida man is facing charges after allegedly shooting and killing his neighbor's dog, an 11-year-old girl from Florida was arrested Wednesday for a fake 911 text that said her friend was kidnapped, hundreds of teachers in Brevard County public schools are calling it quits this school year, a Florida man was arrested for dumping a woman's head into tar, and video shows a Florida scuba diver free a shark entangled in a net in Destin: Here's FOX 35's Week in Review.
Florida man arrested after shooting and killing neighbor's dog with a rifle, deputies say
A Florida man is facing charges after he allegedly shot and killed his neighbor's dog, and shot a woman's service animal, according to an arrest affidavit. Sheldon Hayward, 65, was jailed on two counts of animal cruelty and one count of possession of a gun as a felon. Laray Carnicelli told FOX 35 that she and her daughter, Kacy, let their dogs outside in the backyard to play but did not realize that the back gate was left open and that the dogs got out. They went out to look for the dogs and while they were looking, they heard a gunshot, the report said.
Florida girl accused of sending fake 911 text to be released on home detention, judge says
The 11-year-old Florida girl accused of sending a fake 911 text that said her friend was kidnapped is being released to her parents on home detention, a judge said Thursday morning. The Port Orange child appeared virtually before a Volusia County judge for her first court appearance. Her parents also appeared on her behalf due to her age. While in home detention, the girl must remain under the supervision of her parents at all times. When they are unavailable to be with her, a judge ordered the child to be watched by her grandmother.
Hundreds of Brevard Public School teachers leaving before new school year starts
Hundreds of Brevard Public School teachers are calling it quits with the new school year weeks away. Over the past several months, the district recorded over 200 resignations and retirements with some leaving sooner than they intended.
"I don’t feel valued and respected," said Lisa Rickett who’s a 26-year veteran BPS teacher who decided she wouldn’t return to the classroom in August. "The morale has basically been kind of spiraling down. I feel like there are a lot of big issues that need to be addressed, and we’re getting caught up on some of the minutiae."
She said big issues like burnout, lack of support and not feeling heard by the administration forced her to retire early.
Florida man arrested after dunking woman's head in tar: deputies
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A Florida man was arrested for allegedly dumping a woman's head in a vat of tar, causing chemical burns to her face and arms.
Marshall Dimick, 55, of Rosewood, was booked into the Levy County Detention Center on charges of aggravated battery, aggravated assault with a firearm and four counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, authorities said.
According to deputies, the victim said she and Dimick were arguing when he stuck her head into the tar-like substance that is used to treat clam and oyster bags.
Video: Florida scuba diver frees trapped nurse shark from fishing line caught in artificial reef
A Florida diver came face-to-face with an entangled nurse shark as he worked to free the animal from the coral blue waters of Destin.
Scuba instructor Tazz Felde with Under Pressure Divers helped rescue the distressed shark from an artificial reef system in about 20 feet of water at John Beasley Park on Okaloosa Island at Fort Walton Beach.
"It was between 6 and 7 feet," he told FOX Weather. "It was a pretty big shark."
Felde said another diver reported to his wife, who works for a local snorkel shop, that he and his son came across the trapped shark with a hook in its mouth. The two had made several attempts with no luck to free the shark, which was tethered to one of the reef structures. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-man-kills-neighbors-dog-e280a2-florida-child-arrested-for-fake-911-text-e280a2-hundreds-of-fl-teachers-resign | 2023-07-30T15:30:36 | 1 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/florida-man-kills-neighbors-dog-e280a2-florida-child-arrested-for-fake-911-text-e280a2-hundreds-of-fl-teachers-resign |
Wings vs. Aces: Odds, spread, over/under and other Vegas lines - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 9:39 AM CDT|Updated: 50 minutes ago
On Sunday, July 30, 2023 at Michelob ULTRA Arena, Arike Ogunbowale and the Dallas Wings (14-10) battle A'ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces (22-2), tipping off at 6:00 PM ET on CBS Sports Network and BSSW.
In this article, you will check out odds and spreads for the Wings vs. Aces matchup across multiple sportsbooks.
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Wings vs. Aces Game Info
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 6:00 PM ET
- TV Channel: CBS Sports Network and BSSW
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
- Arena: Michelob ULTRA Arena
Wings vs. Aces Odds, Spread, Over/Under
Check out the odds, spread and over/under for this WNBA matchup available at multiple sportsbooks.
Wings vs. Aces Betting Trends
- The Aces are 12-11-0 ATS this season.
- The Wings have put together a 13-10-0 ATS record so far this season.
- Las Vegas has been favored by 10.5 points or more 19 times this season, and covered the spread in 10 of those matchups.
- Dallas has won its only game this year when playing as at least 10.5-point underdogs.
- A total of 14 out of the Aces' 23 games this season have hit the over.
- In the Wings' 23 chances this season, the combined scoring has gone over the point total 10 times.
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Orlando weather: Flood threat could rise in areas with torrential downpours
Today's high: 95 degrees
Tonight's low: 77 degrees
Main weather concerns:
Dangerous heat will be the big story today with highs soaring into the 90s area-wide coupled with tropical levels of humidity. Heat Advisories are in effect until 5 pm for our entire area with feels-like temperatures expected in the 105-111 range early this afternoon. Take breaks from outside and drink plenty of water! Second to the heat, will be likely storm chances returning again today. Scattered storms will become numerous by mid-afternoon. Torrential rain, frequent lightning, and strong wind gusts will be the main risks. If you have seen heavy rainfall in recent days, the flood risk is higher today so be mindful of flooded roadways.
BEACHES:
Another very warm day along the coast with highs into the low 90s. Storm chances will rise by mid-afternoon and continue into the evening hours. A moderate rip current risk returns with surf up to 2 feet.
THEME PARKS:
It will be a sweltering day at the parks, especially early in the afternoon where heat index values are expected to peak above 105. It is important to take breaks and find the A/C when you can. Storm chances will be on the rise by 2 pm with heavy downpours likely through the late afternoon.
OUTLOOK:
A series of systems will pass by Florida early this week. Combined with high levels of heat and tropical moisture, we will continue to see likely storm chances every afternoon. The flood threat could rise in areas that see repeated torrential downpours. Highs will reach the 90s with lows in the upper 70s to being August.
TRACKING THE TROPICS:
The FOX 35 STORM TEAM is monitoring a distant, tropical wave (96L) in the Central Atlantic. This feature has a 40% chance of developing over the next 2 days (70% in the next 7 days.) It is expected to become a tropical depression over the next few days and stay out at sea. The NHC is monitoring an area of storms off the coast of the Carolinas Sunday. The tropical wave has a limited chance of development as it moves away from the US and merges with a front. The team will continue tracking, keeping you updated along the way. The remainder of the tropics remains quiet for now. | https://www.fox35orlando.com/weather/orlando-weather-flood-threat-could-rise-in-areas-with-torrential-downpours | 2023-07-30T15:30:42 | 0 | https://www.fox35orlando.com/weather/orlando-weather-flood-threat-could-rise-in-areas-with-torrential-downpours |
ATLANTA — The Powerball numbers were 10,25,27,34,38, with a red Powerball number of 2. The "Power Play" multiplier was 3x.
The next jackpot for Monday night's drawing is estimated so far at $74 million, which would come with a cashout option of $37.5 million.
Powerball Georgia winnings
According to figures from Georgia Lottery, the winnings included::
- $100: 42 person
What are my chances of winning the Powerball?
The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are one in 292.2 million.
Over the past few years, huge lottery jackpots have become more common as lottery officials have changed the rules and ticket prices to boost top prizes.
Powerball's biggest change came in 2021 when officials decided to add a Monday drawing to its weekly lineup of Wednesday and Saturday evening drawings. At the time of the announcement, Powerball proclaimed the addition of the Monday drawing would lead to "larger, faster-growing jackpots."
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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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BURBANK, Calif. — With the summer heat wave in full swing in Southern California, a backyard pool is a tempting place to take a dip.
Even for a bear.
Police in the city of Burbank responded to a report of a bear sighting in a residential neighborhood and found the animal sitting in a Jacuzzi behind one of the homes.
After a short dip, the bear climbed over a wall and headed to a tree behind the home, police said in a statement Friday.
Police released a video of the animal in the neighborhood, which is about 10 miles north of Los Angeles and near the Verdugo Mountains.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — With less than a month to go until the first Republican presidential debate of the 2024 campaign, seven candidates say they have met qualifications for a spot on stage in Milwaukee.
But that also means that about half the broad GOP field is running short on time to make the cut.
To qualify for the Aug. 23 debate, candidates needed to satisfy polling and donor requirements set by the Republican National Committee: at least 1% in three high-quality national polls or a mix of national and early-state polls, between July 1 and Aug. 21, and a minimum of 40,000 donors, with 200 in 20 or more states.
A look at who's in, who's (maybe) out and who's still working on making it:
WHO'S QUALIFIED
DONALD TRUMP
The current front-runner long ago satisfied the polling and donor thresholds. But he is considering boycotting and holding a competing event.
Campaign advisers have said the former president has not made a final decision about the debate. One noted that “it’s pretty clear,” based on Trump's public and private statements, that he is unlikely to appear with the other candidates.
“If you’re leading by a lot, what’s the purpose of doing it?” Trump asked on Newsmax.
In the meantime, aides have discussed potential alternative programming if Trump opts for a rival event. One option Trump has floated is an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who now has a program on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
RON DESANTIS
The Florida governor has long been seen as Trump's top rival, finishing a distant second to him in a series of polls in early-voting states, as well as national polls, and raising an impressive amount of money.
But DeSantis' campaign has struggled in recent weeks to live up to the sky-high expectations that awaited him when he entered the race. He let go of more than one-third of his staff as federal filings showed his campaign was burning through cash at an unsustainable rate.
If Trump is absent, DeSantis may be the top target on stage at the debate.
TIM SCOTT
The South Carolina senator has been looking for a breakout moment. The first debate could be his chance.
A prolific fundraiser, Scott enters the summer with $21 million cash on hand.
In one debate-approved poll in Iowa, Scott joined Trump and DeSantis in reaching double digits. The senator has focused much of his campaign resources on the leadoff GOP voting state, which is dominated by white evangelical voters.
NIKKI HALEY
She has blitzed early-voting states with campaign events, walking crowds through her electoral successes ousting a longtime incumbent South Carolina lawmaker, then becoming the state's first woman and first minority governor. Also serving as Trump's U.N. ambassador for about two years, Haley frequently cites her international experience, arguing about the threat China poses to the United States.
The only woman in the GOP race, Haley has said transgender students competing in sports is “the women’s issue of our time” and has drawn praise from a leading anti-abortion group, which called her “uniquely gifted at communicating from a pro-life woman’s perspective.”
Bringing in $15.6 million since the start of her campaign, Haley's campaign says she has “well over 40,000 unique donors" and has satisfied the debate polling requirements.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY
The biotech entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” is an audience favorite at multicandidate events and has polled well despite not being nationally known when he entered the race.
Ramaswamy's campaign says he met the donor threshold earlier this year. He recently rolled out “Vivek's Kitchen Cabinet" to boost his donor numbers even more, by letting fundraisers keep 10% of what they bring in for his campaign.
CHRIS CHRISTIE
The former New Jersey governor opened his campaign by portraying himself as the only candidate ready to take on Trump. Christie called on the former president to “show up at the debates and defend his record.”
Christie will be on that stage, even if Trump isn't, telling CNN this month that he surpassed “40,000 unique donors in just 35 days.” He also has met the polling requirements.
DOUG BURGUM
Burgum, a wealthy former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota’s governor, has been using his fortune to boost his campaign.
He announced a program this month to give away $20 gift cards — “Biden Relief Cards,” as a critique of President Joe Biden’s handling of the economy — to as many as 50,000 people in exchange for $1 donations. Critics have questioned whether the offer violated campaign finance law.
Within about a week of launching that effort, Burgum announced he had surpassed the donor threshold. Ad blitzes in the early-voting states also helped him meet the polling requirements.
WHO HASN'T QUALIFIED:
MIKE PENCE
Trump's vice president has met the polling threshold but has yet to amass a sufficient number of donors, raising the possibility that he might not qualify for the party's first debate.
Pence and his advisers have expressed confidence he will do so, noting that most other Republican hopefuls took a month or two of being active candidates to meet the mark. Pence entered the race on June 7, the same day as Burgum and one day after Christie.
“We’re making incredible progress toward that goal. We’re not there yet,” Pence told CNN in a recent interview. “We will make it. I will see you at that debate stage."
ASA HUTCHINSON
According to his campaign, the former two-term Arkansas governor has met the polling requirements but is working on satisfying the donor threshold. As of Wednesday, Hutchinson marked more than 11,000 unique donors.
Hutchinson is running in the mold of an old-school Republican and has differentiated himself from many of his GOP rivals in his willingness to criticize Trump. He has posted pleas on Twitter for $1 donations to help secure his slot.
FRANCIS SUAREZ
The Miami mayor has been one of the more creative candidates in his efforts to boost his donor numbers. He offered up a chance to see Argentine soccer legend Lionel Messi’s debut as a player for Inter Miami, saying donors who gave $1 would be entered in a chance to get front-row tickets.
Still shy of the donor threshold, he took a page from Burgum’s playbook by offering a $20 “Bidenomics Relief Card” in return for $1 donations. A super political action committee supporting Suarez launched a sweepstakes for a chance at up to $15,000 in tuition, in exchange for a $1 donation to Suarez’s campaign.
Suarez's campaign did not return a message seeking details on his number of donors or qualifying polls.
LARRY ELDER
The conservative radio host wrote in an op-ed that the RNC “has rigged the rules of the game by instituting a set of criteria that is so onerous and poorly designed that only establishment-backed and billionaire candidates are guaranteed to be on stage.”
His campaign last week declined to detail its number of donors, saying only that there had been "a strong increase the last few weeks.” He has not met the polling requirements.
PERRY JOHNSON
Johnson, a wealthy but largely unknown businessman from Michigan, said in a recent social media post that he had notched 23,000 donors and was “confident” he would make the debate stage. He added that all donors were “eligible to attend my free concert in Iowa featuring” country duo Big & Rich next month.
Johnson, who has reached 1% in one qualifying poll, has also offered to give copies of his book “Two Cents to Save America” to anyone who donated to his campaign.
WILL HURD
The former Texas congressman — the last candidate to enter the race, on June 22 — has said repeatedly that he would not pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee, a stance that would keep him off the stage even if he had the qualifying donor and polling numbers. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b | 2023-07-30T15:31:11 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/republican-presidential-candidates-august-gop-debate/507-705744a6-d4a1-4333-af89-210923a3d87b |
Fourteen students stood before more than 100 peers and professors and shared some of their most profound thoughts. Working to project their voices, they spoke words that might become their college essays and carried the dramatic weight of a poetry slam: stories of dying grandfathers, neglectful parents, and being the first in the family to go to college.
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LAS VEGAS — On paper it should have and could have been a boxing classic.
But they didn’t fight on paper.
The sports books made it 3-2, Terence Crawford over Errol Spence. That’s as close to pick ‘em as you can get in Vegas-speak.
But they didn’t fight in the sports books.
And so, despite all each man had achieved in the past and all the evidence that seemed to dictate a once-in-a lifetime welterweight classic, Crawford turned Saturday night’s welterweight unification bout at T Mobile Arena into a textbook clinic. Spence was beaten and battered and never had the slightest chance to land any of the ferocious punches that had established him as the owner of three world championship belts.
He was dropped three times before referee, Harvey Dock, mercifully halted it at 2:52 of the ninth round. His right eye was almost closed, his left was badly swollen, and face was badly bruised, and for the length of the fight following a second-round knockdown, he was finished.
It wasn’t a case of lightning and thunder that marked him so badly.
It was the most overlooked boxing tool of all — one that was not mentioned much in the pre-fight analysis. Boxing purists properly refer to the jab as the sharpest tool in a boxer’s arsenal. Crawford unleashed it as key to victory. Spence ignored it in search of a quick victory, relying on sledgehammer power. He immediately went after Crawford at the opening bell.
He won the round on The Star-Ledger scorecard, but it was a pyrric victory. Before the round ended, Crawford had figured out how Spence would come and what he would use. It is called Boxing IQ. Only the very best have it. It was how Tunney beat Dempsey, how Ali beat Foreman, how James J. Corbett beat John L. Sullivan. Today, few fighters have it: the ability to adapt to any situation no matter how much or little change is required.
Once Crawford saw how Spence used his power to try to bulldoze him and once felt the power itself, he did what great boxers with great boxing IQ always do. He turned it against Spence with angles and movement and a jab that was not only radar-accurate but turned out to be the power punch of the fight. The jab sets up all else, but this one was so effective and powerful it stung and made what follows a setup for everything on Crawford’s menu.
In round two, Spence tried to make a brawl of it and went toe to toe with Crawford in mid-ring, and Spence appeared as though he might be getting the kind of fight for which he had planned. But he was in with a master illusionist.
After the fight was over, Crawford said something that lent perspective to what happened. “
“Spence is a tremendous talent and he’s got a great jab. We were worried about the jab coming in because that’s how he sets up all of his shots,” Crawford said. “Our main focus was the jab. You take away his best attribute. The rest is history.”
Or as you hear from great trainers when they plan for a major fight with these conditions: “The way to beat a jabber is with a better jab.”
Spence did not fight a bad fight. Crawford fought better . He owned the geography of the ring, beginning with second round, which produced the first of three knockdowns. With 20 seconds left in the round, Crawford got the angle he wanted. The jab gave him the opening. It set him up and the right hand that followed put Spence down for first time in his entire career.
“He was just better tonight,” Spence said. “I make no excuses. He was throwing a harder jab. He was timing with his jab, and he had his timing down on point.”
It was no contest after that. Spence kept coming and he kept catching jabs, sometimes two or three in a sequence. In the seventh round, he was clearly a finished fighter. Crawford dropped him twice, with a short right and with another right with just a second left.
After another one-sided round in the eight, it was no longer a question of if, but when. A round later, it was over. It was not the fight of the century. But it was the clinic of the decade given by a master.
Crawford (40-0, 31 knockouts) already owned the WBO belt, and took the WBC, WBA and IBF titles from Spence (28-1). Crawford also ran his KO streak to 11 matches, the second-longest active stretch.
“I only dreamed of being a world champion,” Crawford said. “I’m an over-achiever. Nobody believed in me when I was coming up, but I made everybody a believer.
NBA star Damian Lillard and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones were at T-Mobile Arena. They were among the celebrities that included former boxing champions such as Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.
They watched a clinic they would’ve been proud to execute themselves, and now the man with the best Boxing IQ is now 40-0.
Jerry Izenberg is Columnist Emeritus for The StarLedger. He can be reached at jizenberg@starledger.com.
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LOS ANGELES — (AP) — When viewed through a wide lens, renters across the U.S. finally appear to be getting some relief, thanks in part to the biggest apartment construction boom in decades.
Median rent rose just 0.5% in June, year over year, after falling in May for the first time since the pandemic hit the U.S. Some economists project U.S. rents will be down modestly this year after soaring nearly 25% over the past four years.
A closer look, however, shows the trend will likely be little comfort for many U.S. renters who’ve had to put an increasing share of their income toward their monthly payment. Renters in cities such as Cincinnati and Indianapolis are still getting hit with increases of 5% or more. Much of the new construction is located in just a few metro areas, and many of the new units are luxury apartments, which rent for well north of $2,000.
Median U.S. rent has risen to $2,029 this June from $1,629 in June 2019, according to rental listings company Rent, which tracks rents in 50 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas. Demand for apartments exploded during the pandemic as people who could work remotely sought more space or decided to relocate to another part of the country.
The steep rent increases have left tenants like Melissa Lombana, a high school teacher who lives in the South Florida city of Miramar, with progressively less income to spend on other needs.
The rent on her one-bedroom apartment jumped 13% last year to $1,700. It climbed another 6% to $1,800 this month when she renewed her lease.
“Even the $1,700 was a stretch for me,” said Lombana, 43, who supplements her teaching income with a side job doing educational testing. “In a year, I will not be able to afford living here at all.”
Lombana’s rent is now gobbling up nearly half her monthly income. That puts her in a category referred to as “cost-burdened” by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, denoting households that pay 30% or more of their income toward rent. Last year, the average rent-to-income ratio per household rose to 30%. This March, it was 29.6%.
Lombana hasn’t had any luck finding a more affordable apartment. While South Florida is one of the metropolitan areas seeing a rise in apartment construction, the units are mostly high-end and not a viable option.
That scenario is playing out across the nation. Developers are rushing to complete projects that were green-lit during the pandemic-era surge in demand for rentals or left in limbo by delays in supplies of fixtures and building materials. Nearly 1.1 million apartments are currently under construction, according to the commercial real estate tracker CoStar, a pace not seen since the 1970s.
Increasing the supply of apartments tends to moderate rent increases over time and can give tenants more options on where to live. But more than 40% of the new rentals to be completed this year will be concentrated in about 10 high job growth metropolitan areas, including Austin, Nashville, Denver, Atlanta and New York, according to Marcus & Millichap. In many areas, the boost to overall inventory will be barely noticeable.
Even within metros where there’ll be a notable increase in available apartments, such as Nashville, most of it will be in the luxury category, where rents average $2,270, nationally. Some 70% of the new rental inventory will be the luxury class, said Jay Lybik, national director of multifamily analytics at CoStar.
That will leave most tenants unlikely to see a big enough reduction in rent to make a difference, industry experts and economists say.
“I think we’re in a period of rent flattening for 12 or 18 months, but it’s certainly not a big rent decline,” said Hessam Nadji, CEO of commercial real estate firm Marcus & Millichap.
“We’re building a multi-decade record number of units,” Nadji said. “It’s going to cause some softening and some pockets of overbuilding, but it’s not going to fundamentally resolve the housing shortage or the affordability problem for renters across the U.S.”
The surge in rents has made it difficult for workers to keep up with inflation despite solid wage gains the past few years and exacerbated a long-term trend. Between 1999 and 2022, U.S. rents soared 135%, while income grew 77%, according to data from Moody’s Analytics.
Realtor.com is forecasting that rents will drop an average of 0.9% this year. But while down nationally, rents are still rising in many markets around the country, especially those where hiring remains robust.
In the New York metro area, the median rent climbed 4.7% in June from a year earlier to $2,899, according to Realtor.com. In the Midwest, rents surged 5.6% in the Cincinnati metro area to $1,188, and 6.9% to $1,350 in the Indianapolis metro area.
The current spike in apartment construction alone isn’t going to be enough to address how costly renting has become for many Americans.
“For the rest of the 2020s rents will continue to grow because millennials are such a big generation and we’re very much in the hole in terms of building housing for that generation,” said Daryl Fairweather, chief economist at Redfin. “It will take many good years of new construction to build adequate housing for millennials.”
The bigger challenge is building more work force housing, because the cost of land, labor and navigating the government approval process incentivize developers to put up luxury apartments buildings.
Expanding the supply of modestly priced rentals would help alleviate the strain from so many new apartments targeting renters with high incomes, “although additional subsidies will be needed to make housing affordable to households with the lowest incomes,” researchers at Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies wrote in a recent report.
Despite the overall pullback in U.S. rents, Joey Di Girolamo, in Pembroke Pines, Florida, worries that he’ll face more sharp rent increases in coming years.
Last year, the web designer left a two-bedroom, two-bath townhome he rented for $2,200 a month to avoid a $600 a month increase. This year, his rent went up by $200, a nearly 10% jump.
“That blew me away,” said Di Girolamo, 50. “I’m just kind of dreading what it’s going to be like next year, but especially 3 or 4 years from now.”
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A mobile home burst into flames Saturday night, the Orange County Fire Rescue said.
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According to a release, firefighters received reports of a mobile home fire at Lake Downey Mobile Park around 8 p.m. Saturday.
Fire officials said that the mobile home was fully involved when crews arrived at the scene.
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Crews had a ‘good knockdown’ of the fire.
Investigators said there were no reported injuries.
Orange County Fire Rescue said they notified the state fire marshal.
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BUTLER COUNTY, Ohio — Deputies found approximately 30 dead dogs and puppies, in various stages of decomposition, stuffed into fridges and freezers earlier this week at an Ohio animal rescue. According to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office, there were more than 90 dogs and puppies removed from what deputies and investigators said were “the most horrible conditions they have ever seen.”
The dogs and puppies were being held at two different properties in Madison Township in various structures, the sheriff’s office said. One of the structures law enforcement discovered was a garage with more than 25 caged canines and an indoor temperature of 89 degrees.
“Numerous animals” were kept in cages together that were “filled with urine, fecal matter, and no food or water. One cage contained a mother and eight newborn puppies,” the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Authorities also found 11 adult canines in “the main house,” with “some caged together,” according to the news release.
The deceased canines were found in five refrigerators and freezers, “some of which were not working,” throughout the two properties, the release said.
“Deputy Dog Wardens described the conditions of the house as unlivable. The odor was strong enough to burn their eyes and take away their breath. Conditions were so horrendous that Deputy Dog Wardens had to leave the structure numerous times to catch their breath,” the release states.
CNN has tried to contact the Butler County Sheriff’s Office for further comment.
The owner of the dog rescue was operating it under the business name “Helping Hands for Furry Paws,” according to the release.
The owner and operator of the rescue, who police identified as Rhonda Murphy, “faces dozens of charges of neglect and cruelty to companion animals, both felony and misdemeanor,” according to the release.
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Orlando City scored three goals to beat Liga MX Santos Laguna, 3-2, to take the top spot in Leagues Cup South Region Group 2.
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The Lions now head to Ft. Lauderdale on Wednesday for the first Florida derby to include Lionel Messi.
In Saturday night’s game, the Lions had the first opportunity to take the lead in the 4-minute when rookie Duncan McGuire hit the right post of the goal from inside the six-yard box. Santos Laguna’s goalkeeper grabbed the ball to stop McGuire from putting back the rebound.
In the 41-minute, Santos Laguna’s Raúl López started the scoring for the night when López found a gap between two Lion defenders at the top of the box and sent a shot past Lions’ goalkeeper Pedro Gallese for the finish.
But three minutes later, McGuire would get a second opportunity when Rafael Santos sent a cross in front of the goal and a streaking McGuire headed the ball into the back of the net.
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The two clubs went into halftime tied 1-1.
Just a minute after halftime, City’s Captian Mauricio Pereyra fired a long-distance shot outside the box and found the top right corner of the goal, Lions go up 2-1.
But Santos would come back in the 58-minute when Harold Preciado would equalize with a looping header over Gallese to tie the game 2-2.
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It looked like both clubs would be looking at another penalty shootout to determine the winner of the game and their final placement in the South Regin 2 standings.
But just a day after Peru’s Independence Day, the young Peruvian, Wilder Cartagena, would bring fans at Exploria Stadium to their feet in celebration.
In stoppage time, the Lion’s César Araújo was left open down the right side of the pitch and played a cross on the ground across the box to find Wilder running in behind Santos Laguna’s backline to tap in the winning goal under the legs of the opposing team’s goalkeeper.
Orlando City wins 3-2 and sets up an interstate rivalry match with Inter Miami CF in Leagues Cup play.
Next Game:
When: Aug. 2, time TBD
Where: DRV PNK Stadium
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Nickolas Wilt is finally going home after spending over 100 days in the hospital recovering from being shot in the head while responding to a fatal bank shooting in April.
The 26-year-old underwent brain surgery after the shooting and spent roughly a month on a ventilator, police said. By May, Wilt was off the ventilator and all other life-sustaining equipment, while still dealing with pneumonia and “other lung complications,” Louisville police at the time.
After spending most of the spring and summer months in rehab recovering from his injuries at The Frazier Rehabilitation Institute in Louisville, he was discharged Friday.
Doctors commended Wilt’s tenacity and strength along with the supportive nature of his family, in a news conference Friday ahead of his discharge, CNN affiliate WLKY reported.
His twin brother, Zack Wilt, spoke on his behalf, thanked those who helped along the way and said his brother is looking forward to enjoying a good meal.
“He’s been asking for a steak dinner for a couple of weeks now, and you bet we’re going to get him a steak dinner tonight,” Zack Wilt said during Friday’s news conference.
“Kentucky, our prayers were heard,” Gov. Andy Beshear said in a Facebook post Friday. “Officer Wilt is a hero who ran toward danger to save the lives of several of my friends. I am forever grateful for him and his bravery. Let’s keep praying for him.”
Wilt, a rookie Louisville police officer, had just graduated from police academy 11 days before the shooting at Old National Bank that left five people dead and others injured.
He was one of the first officers on scene and ran toward the gunfire without hesitating, authorities previously said. Police later shot and killed the gunman.
Over the last few weeks, Wilt worked on regaining his consciousness, his ability to speak, swallow, take care of himself, stand and even start walking again, Dr. Darryl Kaelin, medical director at Frazier Rehabilitation Institute said Friday during a news conference.
Kaelin said Wilt was “making a remarkable recovery.”
“Resilience, strength, courage, service. Those are just a few of the words to describe Officer Nickolas Wilt,” Louisville Metro Police Department wrote about the homecoming on its Facebook page Friday.
Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel visited Wilt Thursday, ahead of his discharge and said during Friday’s news conference the highlight of her day was when she was getting ready to leave and Wilt shook her hand and said “Thanks, Chief.”
“I never thought that I will be able to hear those words, and so that’s my focus,” she said. “That he’ll continue to make great strides and whatever his future holds. LMPD is going to be right here to navigate that with him,” Gwinn-Villaroel said.
Next week, Wilt will begin outpatient rehabilitation therapy five days a week and have physical therapy for leg strengthening, standing and walking, Kaelin said.
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The Minnesota Vikings and three-time Pro Bowl defensive end Danielle Hunter have agreed to terms on a new deal, the team announced Sunday.
Hunter will remain with the team on a one-year deal worth $20 million with $17 million guaranteed, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero and Ian Rapoport. This was reportedly agreed upon late Saturday night and also includes a clause to prevent the Vikings from placing the franchise tag on Hunter after this season.
Vikings, pass rusher Danielle Hunter agree to terms on a 1-year, $20M deal including $17M guaranteed. (via @TomPelissero, @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/5U8o5wiAsH
— NFL (@NFL) July 30, 2023
This development comes after the Vikings were reportedly looking at options to move the 28-year-old pass rusher, per ESPN.
Hunter was set to earn $5.5 million this season. It would have been the last year of his five-year, $70 million extension, a deal that was reworked two offseasons ago.
Hoping to negotiate for more money, he reportedly skipped the voluntary offseason workout program and mandatory minicamp but did report to 2023 Vikings Training Camp by the veterans' deadline last Tuesday.
Vikings head coach Kevin O'Connell told reporters on Saturday he was communicating with Hunter every day. "We're still kind of in that on-going process," O'Connell said, via NFl
"I'm having daily dialogue personally with him. My hope is we continue to work towards [finding common ground] over the course of a long training camp. He's played a lot of football, he'll be ready to go."
Now, he'll play another season and earn a salary reflective of his production before he becomes an unrestricted free agent.
Last season, Hunter recorded 10.5 sacks, marking his first double-digit sack season since 2019. His 70 pressures were also a high since 2019. He only played in seven games during the 2021 season due to a torn pectoral muscle.
He has developed significantly since he joined the Vikings fresh out of LSU in 2015. Over 102 career games and 73 regular-season starts, he has notched 71 sacks and 112 QB hits. | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/danielle-hunter/ZHST5TI4UXAX7I6UYGRAWNN6KI/ | 2023-07-30T15:32:43 | 1 | https://www.wftv.com/news/national/danielle-hunter/ZHST5TI4UXAX7I6UYGRAWNN6KI/ |
MUNCIE, Ind. — (AP) — A shooting at a large party in Indiana early Sunday morning left one person dead, police said. A hospital said 19 people were being treated for injuries at its facility.
Muncie police responded to multiple reports of gunfire on the city's east side just after 1 a.m., The Star Press reported. Police said in a news release that there was no active threat to the community and that "multiple" victims were injured, including some critically.
“Due to the number of victims and nature of the incident, multiple agencies were contacted to assist,” Muncie Deputy Police Chief Melissa Criswell said in a statement sent to The Star Press.
Police did not say how many people were injured, but officials at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie told The Associated Press that 19 victims were treated in their emergency department for injuries related to the shooting, and 13 remained at the hospital in stabilized condition Sunday morning. Criswell said some victims sustained critical injuries and were transferred by medical helicopter to other facilities.
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DENVER — (AP) — As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation's poorest neighborhoods, doesn't have air conditioning.
The 68-year-old covers his windows with mattress foam to insulate against the heat and sleeps in the concrete basement. He knows high temperatures can cause heat stroke and death, and his lung condition makes him more susceptible. But the retired brick layer, who survives on about $1,000 a month largely from Social Security, says air conditioning is out of reach.
“Take me about 12 years to save up for something like that," he said. “If it’s hard to breath, I’ll get down to emergency.”
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
As Phoenix weathered it's 27th consecutive day above 110 degrees (43 Celsius) Wednesday, the nine who died indoors didn't have functioning air conditioning, or it was turned off. Last year, all 86 heat-related deaths indoors were in uncooled environments.
“To explain it fairly simply: Heat kills,” said Kristie Ebi, a University of Washington professor who researches heat and health. “Once the heat wave starts, mortality starts in about 24 hours."
It's the poorest and people of color, from Kansas City to Detroit to New York City and beyond, who are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. metros.
“The temperature differences ... between lower-income neighborhoods, neighborhoods of color and their wealthier, whiter counterparts have pretty severe consequences,” said Cate Mingoya-LaFortune of Groundwork USA, an environmental justice organization. “There are these really big consequences like death. ... But there's also ambient misery.”
Some have window units that can offer respite, but “in the dead of heat, it don’t do nothing,” said Melody Clark, who stopped Friday to get food at a nonprofit in Kansas City, Kansas, as temperatures soared to 101, and high humidity made it feel like 109. When the central air conditioning at her rental house went on the fritz, her landlord installed a window unit. But it doesn’t do much during the day.
So the 45-year-old wets her hair, cooks outside on a propane grill and keeps the lights off indoors. She's taken the bus to the library to cool off. At night she flips the box unit on, hauling her bed into the room where it’s located to sleep.
As far as her two teenagers, she said: “They aren’t little bitty. We aren’t dying in the heat. ... They don’t complain.”
While billions in federal funding have been allocated to subsidize utility costs and the installation of cooling systems, experts say they often only support a fraction of the most vulnerable families and some still require prohibitive upfront costs. Installing a centralized heat pump system for heating and cooling can easily reach $25,000.
President Joe Biden announced steps on Thursday to defend against extreme heat, highlighting the expansion of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which funnels money through states to help poorer households pay utility bills.
While the program is critical, said Michelle Graff, who studies the subsidy at Cleveland State University, only about 16% of the nation's eligible population is actually reached. Nearly half of states don't offer the federal dollars for summer cooling.
“So people are engaging in coping mechanisms, like they’re turning on their air conditioners later and leaving their homes hotter,” Graff said.
While frigid temperatures and high heating bills birthed the term “heat or eat,” she said, “we can now transition to AC or eat, where people are going to have to make difficult decisions.”
As temperatures rise, so does the cost of cooling. And temperatures are already hotter in America's low-income neighborhoods like Gallegos' Denver suburb of Globeville, where people live along stretches of asphalt and concrete that hold heat like a cast-iron skillet. Surface temperatures there can be roughly 8 degrees hotter than in Denver’s wealthier neighborhoods, where a sea of vegetation cools the area, according to the environmental advocacy group American Forests.
This disparity plays out nationwide. Researchers at the University of San Diego analyzed 1,056 counties and in over 70%, the poorest areas and those with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations were significantly hotter.
About one in 10 U.S. households have no air conditioning, a disparity compounded for marginalized groups, according to a study by the Brookings Institution. Less than 4% of Detroit's white households don't have air conditioning; it's 15% for Black households.
At noon on Friday, Katrice Sullivan sat on the porch of her rented house on Detroit’s westside. It was hot and muggy, but even steamier inside the house. Even if she had air conditioning, Sullivan said she’d choose her moments to run it to keep her electricity bill down.
The 37-year-old factory worker pours water on her head, freezes towels to put around her neck, and sits in her car with the air conditioner on. “Some people here spend every dollar for food, so air conditioning is something they can’t afford,” she said.
Shannon Lewis, 38, lived in her Detroit home for nearly 20 years without air conditioning. Lewis’s bedroom was the only place with a window unit, so she’d squeeze her teenager, 8-year-old and 3-year-old-twins into her queen-size bed to sleep, eat meals and watch television.
“So it was like cool in one room and a heat stroke in another,” Lewis said. For the first time, Lewis now has air conditioning through a local non-profit, she said. “We don’t have to sleep or eat in the same room, we are able to come out, sit at the dining room table, eat like a family."
After at least 54 died during a 2021 heat wave, mostly elderly people without air conditioning, in the Portland area, Oregon passed a law prohibiting landlords from placing blanket bans on air conditioning units. By and large, however, states don't have laws requiring landlords to provide cooling.
In the federal Inflation Reduction Act, billions were set aside for tax credits and rebates to help families install energy-efficient cooling systems, but some of those are yet to be available. For people like Gallegos, who doesn't pay taxes, the available credits are worthless.
The law also offers rebates, the kind of state and federal point-of-sale discounts that Amanda Morian has looked into for her 640-square-foot home.
Morian, who has a 13-week-old baby susceptible to hot weather, is desperate to keep her house in Denver's Globeville suburb cool. She bought thermal curtains, ceiling fans and runs a window unit. At night she tries to do skin-to-skin touch to regulate the baby’s body temperature. When the back door opens in the afternoon, she said, the indoor temperature jumps a degree.
“All of those are just to take the edge off, it's not enough to actually make it cool. It’s enough to keep us from dying,” she said.
She got estimates from four different companies for installing a cooling system, but every project was between $20,000 and $25,000, she said. Even with subsidies she can't afford it.
“I’m finding that you have to afford the project in the first place and then it’s like having a bonus coupon to take $5,000 off of the sticker price," she said.
Lucy Molina, a single mom in Commerce City, one of Denver’s poorest areas, said her home has reached 107 degrees without air conditioning. Nearby, Molina’s two teenage children slurped popsicles to cool off, lingering in front of the open freezer.
For Molina, who bustled around her kitchen on a recent day when temperatures reached 99 degrees outdoors, it's hard to see any path to a cooling respite.
“We’re just too poor,” she said.
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Associated Press writers Heather Hollingsworth in Kansas City, Kansas, and Corey Williams in Detroit contributed to this report.
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Bedayn is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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GENEVA — Swiss police said that the remains of a German climber who has been missing for nearly forty years were found by climbers earlier this month as ice was melting by the Matterhorn mountain.
Police have not publicly identified the 38-year-old German man that went missing in September 1986. Police say that they were unable to locate him at the time of his disappearance, according to The Associated Press.
Climbers on the Theodul glacier which is by the Italy border found the man’s remains on July 12. The AP reported that the man’s remains were taken to a hospital in the area for analysis. Genetic testing was conducted and police did identify him.
“The bodies of mountaineers whose disappearance was reported decades ago are increasingly turning up due to the receding glaciers,” law enforcement said, according to the Washington Post. The reason is because of global warming - rising temperatures and glaciers that are melting. In that melting process, the remains are getting uncovered and the climbing is getting more dangerous.
The Matterhorn is a pyramid-shaped mountain that is about 14,692 feet high, according to the Post. It lies between the Switzerland and Italy borders.
At least 500 people have died trying to climb the Matterhorn, as of 2011. The Post says the Matterhorn’s death toll is “significantly higher” than that of Mount Everest which is the tallest peak in the world being that it is over 29,000 feet high.
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APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz. — Police said they found two donkeys wandering around a roadway in Apache Junction, Arizona over the weekend.
Apache Junction Police Department on Twitter described an encounter with two donkeys Saturday as “unexpected.”
“Our vigilant patrol officers couldn’t believe their eyes when they stumbled upon these adorable donkeys crossing the road,” police said.
The donkeys were trying to cross the road by 12th and Goldfield in Apache Junction, according to KTVK.
The news outlet said that the donkeys were eventually reunited with their owners. The donkeys were also not injured.
Temperatures in Arizona have been over the 100s last few weeks and as much of the country has been under extreme heat warnings as July is expected to be the world’s hottest month on record.
🚓Unexpected Morning Encounter🐴🛣️Our vigilant patrol officers couldn't believe their eyes when they stumbled upon these adorable donkeys crossing the road near 12th/Goldfield! Acting swiftly, they gathered them up and happily reunited them with their owners #AJAnimalAdventures pic.twitter.com/v2ATM73oEw
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One person is dead and multiple were wounded in Indiana shooting, police say
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A shooting at a large party in Indiana early Sunday morning left one person dead, police said. A hospital said 19 people were being treated for injuries at its facility.
Muncie police responded to multiple reports of gunfire on the city’s east side just after 1 a.m., The Star Press reported. Police said in a news release that there was no active threat to the community and that “multiple” victims were injured, including some critically.
“Due to the number of victims and nature of the incident, multiple agencies were contacted to assist,” Muncie Deputy Police Chief Melissa Criswell said in a statement sent to The Star Press.
Police did not say how many people were injured, but officials at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie told The Associated Press that 19 victims were treated in their emergency department for injuries related to the shooting, and 13 remained at the hospital in stabilized condition Sunday morning. Criswell said some victims sustained critical injuries and were transferred by medical helicopter to other facilities.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Chatter on one of Prabha Rao’s WhatsApp groups exploded last week when India announced that it was severely curtailing some rice exports to the rest of the world, triggering worry among the Indian diaspora in the United States that access to a food staple from home might soon be cut off.
As in any crisis situation — think bottled water and toilet paper— some rushed to supermarkets to stock up, stacking carts with bags and bags of rice. In some places, lines formed outside some stores as panic buying ensued.
But Rao, who lives near Syracuse, New York, was reassured when the proprietor of her Indian market sent out an email to customers to let them know there was no need to worry: There was an ample supply of rice.
At least for now.
An earlier than expected El Niño brought drier, warmer weather in some parts of Asia and is expected to harm rice production. But in some parts of India, where the monsoon season was especially brutal, flooding destroyed some crops, adding to production woes and rising prices.
Hoping to stave off inflationary pressures on a diet staple, the Indian government earlier this month imposed export bans on non-Basmati white rice varieties, prompting hoarding in some parts of the world.
The move was taken “to ensure adequate availability” and “to allay the rise in prices in the domestic market,” India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution announced July 20. Over the past year, prices have increased by more than 11%, and by 3% over the past month, the government said.
Non-Basmati white rice constitutes about a fourth of the rice exported by India.
“On WhatsApp, I got a lot of messages saying that rice was not going to be available. I think there was a lot of confusion in the beginning because, as you know, rice is very important for us,” Rao said.
“When we first heard the news, there was just mild confusion and people started panic buying because they thought that it may not be available,” she said.
There are scores of different varieties of rice, with people having their preference depending on taste and texture. India’s export ban does not apply to Basmati rice, a long-grain variety that is more aromatic.
The ban applies to short-grain rice that is starchier and has a relatively neutral flavor — which Rao says is preferable in some dishes or favored in specific regions of India, especially in southern areas of the country.
At Little India, a grocery store in New York City’s Curry Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, there was no shortage of Basmati rice and other varieties.
That wasn’t the case at other Indian groceries.
On its Facebook page, India Bazaar, an Indian grocery chain in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, told customers not to panic. “We are working hard to meet all our shoppers’ demands,” the post said.
Customers cleared shelves and waited in long lines to stockpile bags of rice, reported NBC Dallas affiliate KXAS.
“They really wanted to purchase ten, 12, 15 bags,” India Bazaar’s president, Anand Pabari, told the station. “It was a really crazy situation.”
India’s move came days after Russia backed out of a deal to allow Ukrainian wheat safe passage through the Black Sea, prompting warnings that the action could lead to surging prices.
Some economists say the ban might further hurt food supplies around the world, and some governments have urged the Indian government to reconsider the export ban.
At least in the United States, the supply of imported rice from India may not yet be a problem — despite the panic buying — but a long-term ban would certainly deplete that stock.
Roa says she and others will just have to adapt by purchasing rice grown in the United States or imported from other countries.
“I might have to substitute Basmati rice,” she said, “but it doesn’t taste that good, especially with South Indian dishes.”
A U.S. resident for three decades, Rao said she is accustomed to improvising.
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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.
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.
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.
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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MOSCOW — (AP) — Ten people — including three children — died after high winds tore through central Russia, emergency services and a local official reported Sunday.
Eight of the dead were part of a group of tourists camping close to Lake Yalchik in the Mari-El region when the storm hit Saturday, Russia’s emergencies ministry said.
The strong winds caused a large number of trees to fall in the area, including where the group’s tents had been pitched on a stretch of wild beach inside the Mariy Chodra National Park, regional leader Yuri Zaitsev wrote on social media. He said that three children were among the dead. Russia's investigative committee has opened a criminal case to determine whether unsafe or sub-standard services provided by the park's management company contributed to the deaths.
Across the wider Volga Federal District, 76 people were injured in the storm, with thousands of households losing power, emergency services said.
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Austin Riley Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:23 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Austin Riley and his .405 on-base percentage over his past 10 games (69 points higher than his season-long percentage), will be in action for the Atlanta Braves versus the Milwaukee Brewers and Colin Rea on July 30 at 1:35 PM ET.
In his most recent game, he had two hits (going 2-for-4 with a double) against the Brewers.
Austin Riley Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +165)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +320)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +105)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -133)
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Austin Riley At The Plate
- Riley has 19 doubles, a triple, 23 home runs and 35 walks while hitting .277.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 32nd, his on-base percentage ranks 59th, and he is 21st in the league in slugging.
- Riley is batting .300 with one homer during his last outings and is on a four-game hitting streak.
- Riley has gotten at least one hit in 69.6% of his games this season (71 of 102), with multiple hits 34 times (33.3%).
- In 21 games this year, he has hit a long ball (20.6%, and 5.1% of his trips to the dish).
- In 38.2% of his games this season, Riley has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 15.7% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in five contests.
- He has scored in 53 games this season, with multiple runs 15 times.
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Brewers pitching staff ranks 17th in the league.
- The Brewers have a 4.03 team ERA that ranks 11th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine to give up 131 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 23rd in the league).
- The Brewers will send Rea (5-4) to the mound for his 18th start of the season. He is 5-4 with a 4.53 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 91 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his most recent appearance on Tuesday, the righty threw six innings against the Cincinnati Reds, allowing two earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- The 33-year-old has put up an ERA of 4.53, with 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 18 games this season. Opponents have a .237 batting average against him.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China accused the United States of turning Taiwan into an “ammunition depot” after the White House announced a $345 million military aid package for Taipei, and the self-ruled island said Sunday it tracked six Chinese navy ships in waters off its shores.
China’s Taiwan Affairs Office issued a statement late Saturday opposing the military aid to Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory.
“No matter how much of the ordinary people’s taxpayer money the … Taiwanese separatist forces spend, no matter how many U.S. weapons, it will not shake our resolve to solve the Taiwan problem. Or shake our firm will to realize the reunification of our motherland,” said Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office.
“Their actions are turning Taiwan into a powder keg and ammunition depot, aggravating the threat of war in the Taiwan Strait,” the statement said.
China’s People’s Liberation Army has increased its military maneuvers in recent years aimed at Taiwan, sending fighter jets and warships to circle the island.
On Sunday, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said it tracked six Chinese navy ships near the island.
Taiwan’s ruling administration, led by the Democratic Progressive Party, has stepped up its weapons purchases from the U.S. as part of a deterrence strategy against a Chinese invasion.
China and Taiwan split amid civil war in 1949, and Taiwan has never been governed by China’s ruling Communist Party.
Unlike previous military purchases, the latest batch of aid is part of a presidential authority approved by the U.S. Congress last year to draw weapons from current U.S. military stockpiles — so Taiwan will not have to wait for military production and sales.
While Taiwan has purchased $19 billion worth of weaponry, much of it has yet to be delivered to Taiwan. Washington will send man-portable air defense systems, intelligence and surveillance capabilities, firearms and missiles to Taiwan. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ | 2023-07-30T15:33:22 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-china-says-us-military-aid-to-taiwan-will-not-deter-its-will-to-unify-the-island/ |
TORONTO — (AP) — Los Angeles Angels outfielder Taylor Ward was placed on the 10-day injured list with facial fractures on Sunday, a day after he was hit by a 91 mph pitch from Blue Jays right-hander Alek Manoah.
Ward was taken to a Toronto hospital after being struck in the fifth inning of Saturday’s 6-1 loss. He was released from hospital Saturday evening.
To replace Ward, the Angels selected the contract of infielder Kevin Padlo from Triple-A Salt Lake.
Batting with the bases loaded, Ward was hit by a 2-0 pitch from Manoah. The ball appeared to strike Ward next to his next left eye, knocking off his batting helmet.
Plate umpire Andy Fletcher motioned to the Angels’ dugout for the trainer as Ward went down, blood running down his face. Angels staff rushed to the plate and held a towel to Ward’s face. After a couple of minutes, Ward got to his feet and left the field on a cart. His left eye appeared to be swollen shut.
A six-year veteran who has spent his entire career with the Angels, Ward is batting .253 with 14 home runs and 47 RBI in 97 games.
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Eddie Rosario Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Sunday, Eddie Rosario (.233 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 66 points below season-long percentage) and the Atlanta Braves play the Milwaukee Brewers, whose starting pitcher will be Colin Rea. First pitch is at 1:35 PM ET.
He hit a home run while going 1-for-4 in his last game against the Brewers.
Eddie Rosario Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +145)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Eddie Rosario At The Plate
- Rosario is batting .252 with 17 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs and 21 walks.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB action, his batting average ranks 86th, his on-base percentage ranks 128th, and he is 38th in the league in slugging.
- In 60.0% of his games this season (54 of 90), Rosario has picked up at least one hit, and in 21 of those games (23.3%) he recorded multiple hits.
- In 15.6% of his games this season, he has hit a long ball, and 4.9% of his trips to the plate.
- In 28.9% of his games this season, Rosario has notched at least one RBI. In 13 of those games (14.4%) he recorded two or more RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in five contests.
- In 36.7% of his games this season, he has scored at least once. And he's had seven games with multiple runs (7.8%).
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Brewers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in the league.
- The Brewers have the 11th-ranked team ERA among all MLB pitching staffs (4.03).
- The Brewers rank 23rd in baseball in home runs surrendered (131 total, 1.2 per game).
- Rea (5-4 with a 4.53 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 91 1/3 innings pitched) gets the start for the Brewers, his 18th of the season.
- In his most recent time out on Tuesday, the right-hander tossed six innings against the Cincinnati Reds, giving up two earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- The 33-year-old has put up an ERA of 4.53, with 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 18 games this season. Opposing hitters have a .237 batting average against him.
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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.
Friday evening, an AP reporter saw around 20 protesters burning tires in the middle of the road in Parcelles Assainies, an outer neighborhood of Dakar. | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-senegals-opposition-leader-charged-with-conspiracy-against-the-state-and-calls-for-insurrection/ | 2023-07-30T15:33:28 | 0 | https://fox59.com/news/national-world/ap-international/ap-senegals-opposition-leader-charged-with-conspiracy-against-the-state-and-calls-for-insurrection/ |
FUKUOKA, Japan — (AP) — Canadian teenager Summer McIntosh should be a star at next year’s Paris Olympics, and she showed why Sunday on the closing day of the swimming world championships in Japan.
The 16-year-old McIntosh won her second gold of the event, taking the 400-meter individual medley after winning the 200 butterfly gold on Friday.
That made up for a slow start for the young Canadian, who finished fourth in the 400 free, where she held the world record until Australia's Ariarne Titmus took it back. She also took bronze in the 200 free, at least getting a medal.
“Going into tonight I just wanted to see how hard I could push myself,” McIntosh said.
She did just that. Her time of 4 minutes, 27.11 seconds was the third fastest ever, not far off her world record of 4:25.87. She was also the defending world champion. American Katie Grimes took the silver in 4:31.41, with Jenna Forrester of Australia picking up the bronze in 4:32.30.
“It was definitely motivating,” McIntosh said of her first few days. “I try to turn everything that goes wrong into motivation somehow.”
Asked about Paris, she replied: “Right now I'm just thinking about a little break.”
McIntosh should be joined by other young stars in Paris like 21-year-old Frenchman Leon Marchand and Australia's 22-year-old Kaylee McKeown. Marchand and McKeown each won three individual golds.
The Americans also closed fast.
After winning only four gold medals during the first seven days, they picked up three on the eighth and final day for a total of seven golds and 38 overall. The gold total is still their lowest in a worlds going back for around 20 years. They won only eight in the 2015 worlds.
Australia finished with 13 gold and 20 overall, and China had five gold and 16 overall.
“This is the cherry on top,” said American Regan Smith, part of the winning 4x100 women’s medley relay. “I love racing with these girls and I love relays so much and brining home a gold in the last event for Team USA means so much to me and all of us.”
The Americans finished in 3:52.08, followed by Australia (3:53.37) and Canada (3:54.12).
The United States also won the men’s 4x100 medley in 3:27.20, ahead of China (3:29.00) and Australia (3:29.62), and added another gold with Hunter Armstrong in the 50-meter backstroke (24.05).
Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden made history with her victory in the women’s 50-meter freestyle. The gold gave Sjostrom 21 medals in individual races in the world championships, surpassing Michael Phelps who had 20.
Sjostrom, who set the world record in the semifinals on Saturday, powered home in the final 25 meters for the win, clocking 23.62. Shayna Jack of Australia picked up the silver in 24.10, while Zhang Yufei of China earned the bronze in 24.15.
Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania set a world record on the way to winning gold in the women’s 50-meter breaststroke in 29.16. She equaled the old world mark of 29.30 the night before in the semifinals.
Meilutyte grabbed the early lead and was never challenged. American Lilly King claimed the silver in 29.94, while Benedetta Pilato of Italy picked up the bronze in 30.04. She shared the old record of 29.30 with Meilutyte.
Ahmed Hafnaoui of Tunisia added the men’s 1,500-meter free gold to the 800 free he won earlier in the worlds, prevailing in an epic battle with American Bobby Finke that went down to the wire.
The 20-year-old Hafnaoui, the defending 400 free Olympic champion, captured the gold in 14:31.54, with Finke clocking 14:31.59 for silver. Sam Short of Australia rounded out the podium with the bronze in 14:37.28.
The mark was just off the world record by Sun Yang of China, 14:31.02, set in 2012. Sun has been suspended for a doping violation.
“Bobby (Finke) is so fast at the end of the race. he pushed us to do the 14.31," Hafnaoui said. "It was so close to the world record. I mean I enjoyed the race and thanks Bobby for pushing me.”
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Marcell Ozuna Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Marcell Ozuna -- with a slugging percentage of .568 in his past 10 games, including four home runs -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves versus the Milwaukee Brewers, with Colin Rea on the hill, on July 30 at 1:35 PM ET.
In his last game, he hit two homers in his most recent game (going 3-for-4) against the Brewers.
Marcell Ozuna Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +325)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +135)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -110)
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Marcell Ozuna At The Plate
- Ozuna has 11 doubles, 21 home runs and 32 walks while batting .239.
- Among the qualified hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 113th, his on-base percentage ranks 109th, and he is 38th in the league in slugging.
- In 62.8% of his 86 games this season, Ozuna has picked up at least one hit. He's also had 17 multi-hit games.
- Looking at the 86 games he has played this season, he's hit a long ball in 19 of them (22.1%), and in 6.1% of his trips to the dish.
- Ozuna has driven home a run in 29 games this season (33.7%), including more than one RBI in 15.1% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on three occasions..
- He has scored in 34 games this year (39.5%), including multiple runs in six games.
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Brewers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Brewers' 4.03 team ERA ranks 11th among all league pitching staffs.
- The Brewers rank 23rd in baseball in home runs surrendered (131 total, 1.2 per game).
- Rea makes the start for the Brewers, his 18th of the season. He is 5-4 with a 4.53 ERA and 75 strikeouts through 91 1/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out was on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, when the righty tossed six innings, surrendering two earned runs while giving up five hits.
- The 33-year-old has an ERA of 4.53, with 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 18 games this season. Opponents are batting .237 against him.
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SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — (AP) — Defending Formula One champion Max Verstappen emphatically won the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday for an eighth straight win and 10th overall of a crushingly dominant season.
Despite starting from sixth place he finished 22.3 seconds ahead of teammate Sergio Perez to give Red Bull an easy 1-2. It moved Verstappen ominously closer to a third straight world title and his own F1 record of 15 wins from last year.
Verstappen is 125 points ahead of Perez after just 12 races, and his next target is matching Sebastian Vettel’s F1 record of nine straight wins with a victory at the Dutch GP when the lopsided season resumes on Aug. 27.
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc finished in third spot for a third podium of the season, with Lewis Hamilton in fourth for Mercedes ahead of Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.
George Russell was sixth for Mercedes, with Lando Norris (McLaren), Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), and Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri) completing the top 10.
Leclerc started on pole ahead of Perez, with Hamilton and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. behind them. McLaren rookie Oscar Piastri was on the next row alongside Verstappen — who was fastest in Friday's qualifying but took a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change and had to avoid early traffic.
“It was just about surviving turn one. I could see it was all getting really tight,” Verstappen said. “I’ve been in that position before myself so I am just going to stay out of that and it worked out. From there onwards I made the right overtakes.”
Last year Verstappen won from 14th, and once he overtook Perez on Lap 17 of 44 his 45th career win was seemingly inevitable.
Red Bull extended its record to 13 straight wins, including the final race of last season.
Hamilton came in on the penultimate lap for a tire change and the move paid off as he took the bonus point for fastest lap from Verstappen — a very minor blip for the dominant Dutchman.
It was yet another stellar weekend for Verstappen, who also won Saturday's sprint race. The only issue was some more bickering with his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase over radio, as they continued their spat from Friday's qualifying.
“Don’t forget Max, use your head, please,” Lambiase told Verstappen when he questioned why Perez was making his first tire change on Lap 14.
With some rain forecast, Verstappen boxed on the next lap and came out about 2 seconds behind Perez. Just minutes later he cruised past Perez and, as so often this season, the rest was just about control.
Perez, meanwhile, pledged to stay on the podium for the rest of the season.
“It’s been a bit of a rough patch," the 33-year-old Mexican said. "I really need this summer break, it’s been really intense. I’ll come back really strong for Zandvoort.”
Conditions were dry for the race start, in stark contrast to the two previous days, which were impacted by heavy rain at the 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
Leclerc, who won his first F1 race here in 2019, made a solid start but Perez’s extra pace soon put him in front. Verstappen rose two places to fourth after Sainz bumped into Piastri on the first corner.
Piastri had to retire, while Verstappen overtook Hamilton on Lap 6, Leclerc three laps later and made short work of Perez just before some rain fell briefly.
Some good overtaking from Ocon moved the Frenchman up from 10th to eighth in the closing stages.
It was an early end for Piastri, who had impressed with a second place in Saturday’s sprint race.
A bad day for Sainz saw him retiring on Lap 25 and Leclerc moving above him in the standings.
“Of course the race was good on my side, a shame for Carlos as we had good pace,” Leclerc said. "When you look at the Red Bulls we still have a lot of work to do.”
After the F1 break there will be 10 races left, but most of the competition for places will be behind Verstappen.
Alonso is one point ahead of Hamilton in third overall, with Leclerc and Russell level and Sainz seven points behind them.
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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. It 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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters Saturday that the move “is a sign of something that has been happening for centuries” and that “has to do with the relations between the Catholic church and the Orthodox one.”
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.
Zelenskyy described the attack as one of Russia’s “most vile and cruel crimes” in a video statement Saturday.
In a separate Telegram statement, he hailed the soldiers in the Donetsk region for “bringing closer the day when all our land and all our people will be free from the occupiers” and underscored the Special Operations Forces’ role in the recent retaking of the village of Staromaiorske in the area.
His visit to the east comes just days after Western and Russian officials said that Kyiv’s forces intensified attacks in the southeast of the country as part of Ukraine’s counteroffensive.
Putin said Saturday that the intensity of Ukrainian atacks along the front line has gone down “compared to two days ago.” He reiterated that Russian forces are successfully repelling all attacks and in some parts of the front line are even mounting successful counteroffensive operations.
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Matt Olson Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Sunday, Matt Olson (.235 batting average in his past 10 games, with a double, three home runs, seven walks and six RBI) and the Atlanta Braves play the Milwaukee Brewers, whose starting pitcher will be Colin Rea. First pitch is at 1:35 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his last game (1-for-4) against the Brewers.
Matt Olson Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +185)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +185)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: -111)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -154)
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Matt Olson At The Plate
- Olson is batting .256 with 19 doubles, two triples, 33 home runs and 61 walks.
- He ranks 75th in batting average, 29th in on base percentage, and fourth in slugging among the qualifying hitters in baseball.
- Olson enters this game on a four-game hitting streak. In his last games, he's hitting .263 with one homer.
- Olson has gotten at least one hit in 65.7% of his games this season (67 of 102), with multiple hits 26 times (25.5%).
- He has gone deep in 27.5% of his games this year, and 7.2% of his trips to the plate.
- In 44.1% of his games this season, Olson has driven in at least one run. In 22 of those games (21.6%) he recorded two or more RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in 11 contests.
- He has scored at least once 56 times this year (54.9%), including 19 games with multiple runs (18.6%).
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The Brewers pitching staff is 17th in the league with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Brewers have a 4.03 team ERA that ranks 11th across all league pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine to rank 23rd in baseball in home runs allowed (131 total, 1.2 per game).
- Rea makes the start for the Brewers, his 18th of the season. He is 5-4 with a 4.53 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 91 1/3 innings pitched.
- His last time out came on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, when the right-hander tossed six innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing five hits.
- The 33-year-old has an ERA of 4.53, with 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings, in 18 games this season. Opponents have a .237 batting average against him.
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Michael Harris II Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:25 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Sunday, Michael Harris II (hitting .364 in his past 10 games) and the Atlanta Braves play the Milwaukee Brewers, whose starting pitcher will be Colin Rea. First pitch is at 1:35 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he went 1-for-3 against the Brewers.
Michael Harris II Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +525)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +170)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -110)
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Michael Harris II At The Plate
- Harris II is batting .275 with 15 doubles, two triples, nine home runs and 18 walks.
- Harris II is batting .353 during his last games and is on an 11-game hitting streak.
- Harris II has recorded a hit in 52 of 80 games this year (65.0%), including 15 multi-hit games (18.8%).
- He has hit a long ball in eight games this year (10.0%), homering in 3% of his chances at the plate.
- In 22.5% of his games this season, Harris II has notched at least one RBI. In six of those games (7.5%) he recorded two or more RBI, while he was responsible for three or more of his team's runs in three contests.
- He has scored in 35.0% of his games this season, with two or more runs scored in 8.8%.
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The Brewers pitching staff ranks 17th in the league with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Brewers have a 4.03 team ERA that ranks 11th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine to surrender 131 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 23rd in baseball).
- The Brewers will send Rea (5-4) out for his 18th start of the season. He is 5-4 with a 4.53 ERA and 75 strikeouts through 91 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, the right-hander went six innings, allowing two earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- In 18 games this season, the 33-year-old has an ERA of 4.53, with 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are hitting .237 against him.
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Over 100 mercenaries belonging to the Russian-linked Wagner group in Belarus have moved close to the border with Poland, the Polish prime minister said Saturday.
Mateusz Morawiecki said at a news conference that the mercenaries had moved close to the Suwalki Gap, a strategic stretch of Polish territory situated between Belarus and Kaliningrad, a Russian territory separated from the mainland.
Poland is a member of both the European Union and NATO, and it has worried about its security with Russian ally Belarus and Ukraine on its eastern border.
Those fears have grown since Wagner group mercenaries arrived in Belarus since the group’s short-lived rebellion earlier this summer.
The Poland-Belarus border has already been a tense place for a couple of years, ever since large numbers of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa began arriving, seeking to enter the EU by crossing into Poland, as well as Lithuania.
Poland’s government accuses Russia and Belarus of using the migrants to destabilize Poland and other EU countries. It calls the migration a form of hybrid warfare, and has responded by building a high wall along part of its border with Belarus.
“Now the situation becomes even more dangerous,” Morawiecki told reporters.
He added that “this is certainly a step towards a further hybrid attack on Polish territory.”
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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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One person is dead and multiple were wounded in Indiana shooting, police say
MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A shooting at a large party in Indiana early Sunday morning left one person dead, police said. A hospital said 19 people were being treated for injuries at its facility.
Muncie police responded to multiple reports of gunfire on the city’s east side just after 1 a.m., The Star Press reported. Police said in a news release that there was no active threat to the community and that “multiple” victims were injured, including some critically.
“Due to the number of victims and nature of the incident, multiple agencies were contacted to assist,” Muncie Deputy Police Chief Melissa Criswell said in a statement sent to The Star Press.
Police did not say how many people were injured, but officials at Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie told The Associated Press that 19 victims were treated in their emergency department for injuries related to the shooting, and 13 remained at the hospital in stabilized condition Sunday morning. Criswell said some victims sustained critical injuries and were transferred by medical helicopter to other facilities.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Two people were killed and two others injured Saturday in a midair collision at an airport in Wisconsin.
A Rotorway 162F helicopter and an ELA Eclipse 10 gyrocopter collided shortly after noon local time at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, authorities said. The aircraft belonged to individuals attending the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in convention in Oshkosh but were not involved in the air show, a statement from the organization said.
The association, citing the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, said two people were killed and two injured. The injured were taken to a local hospital and were in stable condition.
The association said further information would be released as additional details are confirmed. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
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Orlando Arcia Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Atlanta Braves, including Orlando Arcia and his .629 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, battle starting pitcher Colin Rea and the Milwaukee Brewers at Truist Park, Sunday at 1:35 PM ET.
In his most recent appearance, he strung together three hits (going 3-for-4 with a double) against the Brewers.
Orlando Arcia Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +675)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +195)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +120)
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Orlando Arcia At The Plate
- Arcia has 13 doubles, 10 home runs and 22 walks while hitting .297.
- Arcia has gotten at least one hit in 65.4% of his games this year (53 of 81), with at least two hits 26 times (32.1%).
- In 12.3% of his games this season, he has homered, and 3.2% of his trips to the dish.
- Arcia has picked up an RBI in 30.9% of his games this season, with more than one RBI in 13.6% of his games.
- He has scored in 38.3% of his games this year (31 of 81), with two or more runs 10 times (12.3%).
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Brewers pitching staff ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Brewers have a 4.03 team ERA that ranks 11th among all league pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine to allow 131 total home runs at a clip of 1.2 per game (to rank 23rd in the league).
- Rea (5-4) takes the mound for the Brewers in his 18th start of the season. He has a 4.53 ERA in 91 1/3 innings pitched, with 75 strikeouts.
- The righty last pitched on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, when he tossed six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up five hits.
- In 18 games this season, the 33-year-old has amassed an ERA of 4.53, with 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings. Opponents are batting .237 against him.
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Racist, vulgar messages spray painted on cars
ARLINGTON, Texas (WFAA) - Texas authorities are looking for the people who spray-painted racist words and vulgar images on cars parked across Arlington.
It took elbow grease and a little oven cleaner, but Dexter Smith and his brother finally got the spray paint off of the Corvette and the F-150 they park outside of their home.
Someone tagged each vehicle with racist slurs and vulgar drawings Saturday morning. They also dumped Smith’s trash on his porch.
“The first thing was disbelief, shock, then after the shock, it was like I got angry,” Smith said.
About 15 minutes north, two security cameras caught nearly identical acts of vandalism.
In both cases, people appear to get out of the same minivan and both vehicles they approached were marked with the same racist word.
Smith says it is hard to ignore the vandal’s vocabulary.
“They’ve got stuff called a hate crime, now,” he said.
Police are not yet certain the same group is responsible for each incident, but WFAA confirmed at least six vehicles were tagged with similarly racist language and police say they are still getting new reports.
Smith says he has now seen the worst side of his community and yet he found hope on the same day.
“A lady drove by, passed, stopped and backed up. She rolled the window down and she just said, ‘I’m so sorry,’” he said.
Smith says that moment helped him “a lot.”
Each of the five homes police responded to are within four miles of each other.
There is no word of any suspects or arrests, but investigators are asking locals to check their surveillance video for any information about the perpetrators.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday.
Johnny Johnson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing 6-year-old Casey Williamson after trying to sexually assault her in 2002.
With questions swirling about his mental competency, the execution was halted last Tuesday by a divided three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court. But after the Missouri Attorney General’s Office asked that the full court reconsider, that decision was reversed in a 7-3 ruling.
The case will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court before the scheduled execution date.
Attorneys for Johnson have claimed his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding the link between his crime and the punishment. They have also said Johnson has delusions about the devil using his death to bring about the end of the world.
The Missouri Supreme Court in June declined to halt the execution based on the mental health claim. The attorney general’s office challenged the credibility of psychiatric evaluations of Johnson and contended that medical records indicate he is able to manage his mental illness through medication.
Johnson lured the girl to an abandoned glass factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk to the dilapidated site. When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free. He killed her with bricks and rocks, then washed off in the Meramec River. Johnson confessed to the crimes.
Casey’s disappearance set off a frantic search involving first responders and volunteers. Her body was found in a pit less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from her home, buried beneath rocks and debris.
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Ozzie Albies Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:23 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Sunday, Ozzie Albies (batting .179 in his past 10 games) and the Atlanta Braves face the Milwaukee Brewers, whose starting pitcher will be Colin Rea. First pitch is at 1:35 PM ET.
He had two hits (going 2-for-5 with an RBI) in his last game against the Brewers.
Ozzie Albies Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +160)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +360)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +100)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -149)
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Ozzie Albies At The Plate
- Albies is hitting .258 with 17 doubles, three triples, 24 home runs and 31 walks.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB play, his batting average ranks 69th, his on-base percentage ranks 94th, and he is 19th in the league in slugging.
- In 65.7% of his 102 games this season, Albies has picked up at least one hit. He's also had 26 multi-hit games.
- He has hit a home run in 21.6% of his games in 2023, and 5.5% of his trips to the dish.
- Albies has picked up an RBI in 41 games this year (40.2%), with two or more RBI in 21 of those games (20.6%).
- In 52 of 102 games this year, he has scored, and 10 of those games included multiple runs.
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Brewers has a collective 8.6 K/9, which ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Brewers have a 4.03 team ERA that ranks 11th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine to rank 23rd in baseball in home runs given up (131 total, 1.2 per game).
- Rea gets the start for the Brewers, his 18th of the season. He is 5-4 with a 4.53 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 91 1/3 innings pitched.
- In his last time out on Tuesday, the righty threw six innings against the Cincinnati Reds, allowing two earned runs while surrendering five hits.
- The 33-year-old has a 4.53 ERA and 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings in 18 games this season, while allowing a batting average of .237 to his opponents.
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Adam Duvall Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:26 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Boston Red Sox and Adam Duvall, who went 0-for-3 last time out, take on Scott Alexander and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his most recent game (0-for-3) against the Giants.
Adam Duvall Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +425)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +150)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Adam Duvall At The Plate
- Duvall is hitting .260 with 14 doubles, a triple, eight home runs and 12 walks.
- Duvall has picked up a hit in 26 of 42 games this season, with multiple hits nine times.
- Looking at the 42 games he has played this season, he's went deep in seven of them (16.7%), and in 4.7% of his trips to the plate.
- In 42.9% of his games this season, Duvall has picked up at least one RBI. In six of those games (14.3%) he recorded two or more RBI, while accounting for three or more of his team's runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 42.9% of his games this season, with more than one run scored in 7.1%.
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Giants Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Giants has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants' 3.99 team ERA ranks 10th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to give up the third-fewest home runs in baseball (109 total, one per game).
- Alexander (6-1) gets the start for the Giants, his third of the season.
- His last time out came out of the bullpen on Thursday when the lefty tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while giving up just one hit.
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Police said at least eight dogs being transported inside an uncooled cargo van in Indiana died of heat-related injuries this week as temperatures soared amid an intense heat wave gripping much of the United States. The heat was not letting up Saturday in many areas, including in New York City, where temperatures were expected to surge into the lower 90s (around 35 C). Officials say the humid, thick air could make it feel well over the century mark for many Americans.
The sizzling air has heated up everything from the ocean to pools, making it difficult to cool off. One woman in the Southwest has been throwing blocks of ice in her pool.
Metro Phoenix hit its 30th consecutive day of record-breaking heat on Saturday. Scientists calculate this month will be the hottest globally on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen.
Here’s what’s happening related to extreme weather and the climate right now:
— Police said the eight dogs that died were among 18 Shepherds being transported from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a K-9 training facility in Michigan City, Indiana. The driver told police he was unaware that the air conditioning unit was not cooling the back of the van until he heard dogs barking. He pulled over in Lake Station, Indiana, to open the back. Lake Station police said he then found several dogs dead and others suffering.
— Heat advisories continued in New York City, where high humidity has made it uncomfortable and dangerous. Some 500 cooling centers have opened across the city’s five boroughs, and the governor authorized the state’s swimming pools to stay open later. The extreme heat was forecast to ease Sunday.
— Parts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut were under a heat advisory through Saturday night. In northern New England, temperatures were down 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit after getting into the 90s (around 35 degrees Celsius) on Friday, but the humidity lingered throughout the region.
— The weather was equally stifling and muggy in the center of the United States. An excessive heat warning was issued for much of Missouri, Kansas and western Illinois, where the sweaty mix of heat and humidity could make it feel like up to 112 degrees Fahrenheit (44.4 degrees Celsius) in some areas. St. Louis health director Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis said the risk of heat stroke was high and warned that interior car temperatures could reach lethal levels in minutes.
— Similar warnings were issued for much of the Deep South, which encompasses Georgia, Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, with temperatures in the 90s (around 35 Celsius) and heat indexes past 100 (43.3 Celsius).
— The extreme heat has refocused attention on the lack of air conditioning in prisons. The Prison Policy Initiative, a national think tank, included Missouri and Kansas in a 2019 list of 13 “famously hot states” that lack universal air conditioning in prisons. In Missouri, only half of the prisons are fully air conditioned. And in Kansas, adding air conditioning to the newest prison sparked outrage among some lawmakers who saw it as coddling inmates.
— Phoenix broke another heat record Saturday, marking the 30th consecutive day of temperatures reaching or surpassing 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius). With the arrival of monsoon rains, temperatures are forecast to start to drop in the hottest areas in the U.S. Southwest, especially Phoenix. Temperatures are also expected to ease in Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Death Valley, California.
— With the scorching heat, even going for a swim offered little to no relief. Sea surface temperatures rose above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8 Celsius) at a spot off Florida’s southern tip, while swimming pools in the Southwest gave the sensation of being in soup.
— The high temperatures are reaching across the globe, including in Bolivia, where a drought alert has been declared for Lake Titicaca after water levels of the world’s highest navigable lake receded to a critically low threshold.
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Associated Press writers Bobby Caina Calvan in New York; Heather Hollingsworth in Mission, Kansas; Ken Ritter in Las Vegas; Chevel Johnson in New Orleans; John O’Connor in Springfield, Illinois; and Kathy McCormack in Concord, New Hampshire, contributed to this report.
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Ronald Acuña Jr. Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Ronald Acuna Jr., with a slugging percentage of .436 in his past 10 games -- including one home run -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves against the Milwaukee Brewers, with Colin Rea on the hill, July 30 at 1:35 PM ET.
In his most recent game, he strung together three hits (going 3-for-4 with a home run and two RBI) against the Brewers.
Ronald Acuña Jr. Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +120)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +340)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +125)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -222)
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Ronald Acuña Jr. At The Plate
- Acuna has 136 hits and an OBP of .416 to go with a slugging percentage of .578. All three of those stats lead Atlanta hitters this season.
- He ranks second in batting average, third in on base percentage, and second in slugging among qualifying hitters in MLB.
- Acuna has recorded a hit in 79 of 102 games this year (77.5%), including 43 multi-hit games (42.2%).
- Looking at the 102 games he has played this year, he's homered in 22 of them (21.6%), and in 5.1% of his trips to the dish.
- In 38.2% of his games this season, Acuna has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 13.7% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in eight contests.
- He has scored in 64 games this year, with multiple runs 23 times.
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Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The Brewers pitching staff ranks 17th in the league with a collective 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Brewers have a 4.03 team ERA that ranks 11th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Brewers pitchers combine to surrender 131 total home runs at a rate of 1.2 per game (to rank 23rd in baseball).
- Rea (5-4 with a 4.53 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 91 1/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Brewers, his 18th of the season.
- The righty last appeared on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, when he went six innings, allowing two earned runs while giving up five hits.
- The 33-year-old has a 4.53 ERA and 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings in 18 games this season, while allowing a batting average of .237 to his opponents.
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Alex Verdugo Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:29 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Alex Verdugo -- .111 average over his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Boston Red Sox against the San Francisco Giants, with Scott Alexander on the mound, on July 30 at 4:05 PM ET.
He had a one-hit performance in his last game (1-for-3) against the Giants.
Alex Verdugo Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -238)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +1000)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +155)
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Alex Verdugo At The Plate
- Verdugo is hitting .272 with 27 doubles, four triples, seven home runs and 35 walks.
- Among the qualified hitters in baseball, he ranks 43rd in batting average, 47th in on-base percentage, and 81st in slugging.
- Verdugo has picked up a hit in 62 of 91 games this year, with multiple hits 30 times.
- In seven games this year, he has gone deep (7.7%, and 1.7% of his trips to the plate).
- Verdugo has picked up an RBI in 30.8% of his games this season, with more than one RBI in 8.8% of his games. He has also produced three or more runs in two contests.
- He has scored in 45 games this season (49.5%), including multiple runs in 11 games.
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Alex Verdugo Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants' 3.99 team ERA ranks 10th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Giants allow the third-fewest home runs in baseball (109 total, one per game).
- Alexander (6-1) gets the start for the Giants, his third of the season.
- His most recent appearance was out of the bullpen on Thursday when the left-hander tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while allowing only one hit.
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Sean Murphy Player Prop Bets: Braves vs. Brewers - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:24 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Sean Murphy -- .139 average over his past 10 games -- will be in action for the Atlanta Braves against the Milwaukee Brewers, with Colin Rea on the hill, on July 30 at 1:35 PM ET.
He had a one-hit showing in his last game (1-for-4) against the Brewers.
Sean Murphy Game Info & Props vs. the Brewers
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 1:35 PM ET
- Stadium: Truist Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Brewers Starter: Colin Rea
- TV Channel: MLB Network
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -250)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +400)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +155)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: -105)
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Sean Murphy At The Plate
- Murphy is hitting .282 with 18 doubles, 17 home runs and 33 walks.
- Murphy has reached base via a hit in 47 games this year (of 75 played), and had multiple hits in 19 of those games.
- He has hit a home run in 21.3% of his games in 2023 (16 of 75), and 5.5% of his trips to the dish.
- Murphy has driven home a run in 29 games this season (38.7%), including more than one RBI in 20.0% of his games and producing three or more of his team's runs on eight occasions..
- In 45.3% of his games this season (34 of 75), he has scored, and in 10 of those games (13.3%) he has scored more than once.
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Sean Murphy Home/Away Batting Splits
Brewers Pitching Rankings
- The 8.6 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Brewers pitching staff ranks 17th in MLB.
- The Brewers have a 4.03 team ERA that ranks 11th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- The Brewers rank 23rd in baseball in home runs given up (131 total, 1.2 per game).
- Rea (5-4) takes the mound for the Brewers in his 18th start of the season. He has a 4.53 ERA in 91 1/3 innings pitched, with 75 strikeouts.
- The righty's most recent time out came on Tuesday against the Cincinnati Reds, when he tossed six innings, surrendering two earned runs while allowing five hits.
- In 18 games this season, the 33-year-old has a 4.53 ERA and 7.4 strikeouts per nine innings, while giving up a batting average of .237 to opposing batters.
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Connor Wong Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:26 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Boston Red Sox, including Connor Wong (.417 on-base percentage in past 10 games, 109 points above season-long percentage), take on starter Scott Alexander and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.
In his last game he had a hitless showing (0-for-3) against the Giants.
Connor Wong Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +650)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +210)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +165)
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Connor Wong At The Plate
- Wong is batting .252 with 19 doubles, six home runs and 16 walks.
- In 56.0% of his 75 games this season, Wong has picked up at least one hit. He's also had 13 multi-hit games.
- In five games this year, he has hit a long ball (6.7%, and 2.3% of his trips to the plate).
- Wong has had an RBI in 15 games this year (20.0%), including seven multi-RBI outings (9.3%). He has also driven home three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored at least once 32 times this season (42.7%), including six games with multiple runs (8.0%).
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Giants Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Giants has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants have a 3.99 team ERA that ranks 10th among all league pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to give up 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in baseball.
- Alexander (6-1) starts for the Giants, his third of the season.
- In his last appearance -- out of the bullpen on Thursday -- the left-hander threw a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while surrendering one hit.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors, a federal judge ruled Saturday.
U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks issued a preliminary injunction against the law, which also would have created a new process to challenge library materials and request that they be relocated to areas not accessible by kids. The measure, signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders earlier this year, was set to take effect Aug. 1.
A coalition that included the Central Arkansas Library System in Little Rock had challenged the law, saying fear of prosecution under the measure could prompt libraries and booksellers to no longer carry titles that could be challenged.
The judge also rejected a motion by the defendants, which include prosecuting attorneys for the state, seeking to dismiss the case.
The ACLU of Arkansas, which represents some of the plaintiffs, applauded the court’s ruling, saying that the absence of a preliminary injunction would have jeopardized First Amendment rights.
“The question we had to ask was — do Arkansans still legally have access to reading materials? Luckily, the judicial system has once again defended our highly valued liberties,” Holly Dickson, the executive director of the ACLU in Arkansas, said in a statement.
The lawsuit comes as lawmakers in an increasing number of conservative states are pushing for measures making it easier to ban or restrict access to books. The number of attempts to ban or restrict books across the U.S. last year was the highest in the 20 years the American Library Association has been tracking such efforts.
Laws restricting access to certain materials or making it easier to challenge them have been enacted in several other states, including Iowa, Indiana and Texas.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin said in an email Saturday that his office would be “reviewing the judge’s opinion and will continue to vigorously defend the law.”
The executive director of Central Arkansas Library System, Nate Coulter, said the judge’s 49-page decision recognized the law as censorship, a violation of the Constitution and wrongly maligning librarians.
“As folks in southwest Arkansas say, this order is stout as horseradish!” he said in an email.
“I’m relieved that for now the dark cloud that was hanging over CALS’ librarians has lifted,” he added.
Cheryl Davis, general counsel for the Authors Guild, said the organization is “thrilled” about the decision. She said enforcing this law “is likely to limit the free speech rights of older minors, who are capable of reading and processing more complex reading materials than young children can.”
The Arkansas lawsuit names the state’s 28 local prosecutors as defendants, along with Crawford County in west Arkansas. A separate lawsuit is challenging the Crawford County library’s decision to move children’s books that included LGBTQ+ themes to a separate portion of the library.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Trader Joe’s is recalling a broccoli cheddar soup that may contain insects and cooked falafel that may contain rocks, about one week after the grocery chain recalled two cookie products over similar concerns.
The soup recall impacts Trader Joe’s Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Soup with “Use By” dates ranging from July 18 to Sept. 15, according to a Thursday announcement from the company. On Friday, the grocer announced that Trader Joe’s Fully Cooked Falafel sold in 35 states and Washington, D.C., was also under recall.
On July 21, Trader Joe’s announced that it was recalling Trader Joe’s Almond Windmill Cookies and Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies with “sell by” dates ranging from Oct. 17 to Oct. 21. Like the falafel, the cookies may also contain rocks, the company said.
When asked for further information about how the insects and rocks may have gotten into these products, a Trader Joe’s spokesperson said that “there was an issue in the manufacturing processes in the facilities.” Suppliers alerted Trader Joe’s of the possible foreign material for each recall, the company said.
“We pulled the product from our shelves as soon as we were made aware of the issue. Once we understood the issue we notified our customers,” the spokesperson said in a statement sent to The Associated Press Saturday.
All of the recalled cookies, soup and falafel have been removed from sale or destroyed, Trader Joe’s said in its announcements. But the Monrovia, California-based company is still urging consumers to check their kitchens for the products.
Trader Joe’s says customers who have the recalled products should throw them away or return them to any store for a full refund. Lot codes and further details about the products under recall, as well as customer service contact information, can be found on the company’s website.
Trader Joe’s did not specify how many products were impacted with each recall or identify suppliers. But one Food and Drug Administration notice cited by NBC News says that the Unexpected Broccoli Cheddar Soup recall impacts around 10,889 cases sold in seven states. Winter Gardens Quality Foods, Inc. is identified as the recalling firm, per the notice.
No formal releases about the three recalls were published on the FDA’s Recalls, Market Withdrawals, & Safety Alerts page as of Saturday. The Associated Press reached out to the FDA and Winter Gardens Quality Foods for information on Saturday.
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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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Justin Turner Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:30 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
On Sunday, Justin Turner (.263 batting average in his past 10 games, with four doubles, two home runs, three walks and 12 RBI) and the Boston Red Sox face the San Francisco Giants, whose starting pitcher will be Scott Alexander. First pitch is at 4:05 PM ET.
In his last game, he racked up two hits (going 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI) against the Giants.
Justin Turner Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 1.5 hits (Over odds: +180)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +625)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +150)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Justin Turner At The Plate
- Turner leads Boston with a slugging percentage of .479, fueled by 41 extra-base hits.
- Among qualifying hitters in MLB, his batting average ranks 13th, his on-base percentage ranks 30th, and he is 35th in the league in slugging.
- In 72 of 100 games this year (72.0%) Turner has had a hit, and in 34 of those games he had more than one (34.0%).
- Looking at the 100 games he has played this season, he's hit a long ball in 15 of them (15.0%), and in 3.7% of his trips to the plate.
- Turner has picked up an RBI in 44 games this year (44.0%), with two or more RBI in 17 of those contests (17.0%).
- He has scored at least once 50 times this season (50.0%), including 12 games with multiple runs (12.0%).
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Justin Turner Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The pitching staff for the Giants has a collective 8.7 K/9, which ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants' 3.99 team ERA ranks 10th across all league pitching staffs.
- The Giants allow the third-fewest home runs in baseball (109 total, one per game).
- Alexander (6-1) makes the start for the Giants, his third of the season.
- The left-hander last appeared in relief on Thursday, when he threw a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while giving up one hit.
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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Rafael Devers Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:27 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
After hitting .282 with two doubles, three home runs, two walks and four RBI in his past 10 games, Rafael Devers and the Boston Red Sox take on the San Francisco Giants (who will hand the ball to Scott Alexander) at 4:05 PM ET on Sunday.
In his most recent game he had a hitless performance (0-for-4) against the Giants.
Rafael Devers Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -278)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +525)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +135)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +115)
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Rafael Devers At The Plate
- Devers leads Boston in total hits (98) this season while batting .259 with 47 extra-base hits.
- He ranks 65th in batting average, 79th in on base percentage, and 11th in slugging among qualified hitters in MLB play.
- Devers has had a hit in 61 of 98 games this season (62.2%), including multiple hits 31 times (31.6%).
- He has hit a home run in 21 games this year (21.4%), homering in 5.9% of his trips to the plate.
- In 46.9% of his games this year, Devers has had at least one RBI. He's picked up more than one in 18.4% and driven in three or more of his team's runs in seven contests.
- He has scored in 44 of 98 games this season, and more than once 13 times.
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Rafael Devers Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings compiled by the Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants have a 3.99 team ERA that ranks 10th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to surrender 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in baseball.
- The Giants will look to Alexander (6-1) in his third start this season.
- In his last time out -- out of the bullpen on Thursday -- the left-hander threw a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while surrendering one hit.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri is joining No Labels ‘ increasingly contentious effort to lay the groundwork for a moderate third-party presidential ticket in the 2024 election. He gives the embattled organization another prominent ally amid escalating concerns from Democratic officials that the No Labels campaign could unintentionally help Republican Donald Trump return to the White House.
Nixon, a 67-year-old lawyer, is stepping back into national politics for the first time since leaving office in 2017 and will serve as No Labels’ director of ballot integrity. He said in an interview that he was drawn to the role after learning that well-funded groups aligned with Democrats were working to stop No Labels from securing ballot access in key states.
He said that those seeking to block the group’s right to appear on the presidential ballot are attacking a pillar of American democracy.
“What do I say to those Democrats? I say, ‘You’re entitled to your opinion. But we are also entitled to use our constitutional and statutory rights to allow Americans to have another choice,’” Nixon told The Associated Press.
President Joe Biden and Trump have dominated the 2024 campaign conversation so far. But No Labels, a Washington-based group that promotes compromise, national unity and centrist policy solutions, has been preparing for the strongest third-party presidential bid at least since Texas businessman Ross Perot earned nearly 19% of the popular vote in 1992.
Working with an operating budget of roughly $70 million, No Labels is taking steps to secure presidential ballot spots in roughly 20 states this year; the group has done so already in Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Oregon and Utah.
While No Labels has yet to nominate candidates for president and vice president, its leadership insists there is a path to victory for a centrist third-party ticket “if the two parties select unreasonably divisive presidential nominees.”
The group’s critics across the Democratic Party are terrified that No Labels will siphon votes that would otherwise go to Biden, who narrowly beat Trump in 2020 with a coalition that included moderate Democrats, independents and disaffected Republicans.
No Labels’ leadership has promised a series of checks and balances that would allow the organization to withdraw its presidential ticket if it appears the group’s participation would help Trump win. No Labels has not outlined a detailed plan about that, and leaders acknowledge privately there is some urgency to come out with their specific safeguards, which would vary state by state. They intend to do so by “early fall.”
Anxious Democrats are unconvinced.
On Thursday, two prominent Democratic groups, the centrist Third Way and more progressive MoveOn, hosted private meetings on Capitol Hill with dozens of chiefs of staff and senior aides to House and Senate Democrats to emphasize the need to stop No Label’s presidential ambitions. In a nod to the seriousness of the Democratic establishment’s concerns, the meetings were held in both the House and Senate Democrats’ campaign headquarters.
“We told them what we have been saying consistently now for a long time: This is dangerous,” said Third Way co-founder Matt Bennett, who helped lead the briefing along with MoveOn’s executive director, Rahna Epting.
The organizers detailed data showing that a No Labels ticket would undercut Biden in the general election and warned that it could handicap vulnerable House and Senate candidates is tight elections. They also questioned that No Labels’ promise to withdraw its ticket if necessary to stop Trump.
No Labels’ leaders are furious.
“They are telling the elected leaders of this country right now that our ballot is a runaway train. And that is categorically false. That is propaganda. And that is why we’re bringing on a director of ballot integrity to stop it because it’s outrageous,” said No Labels’ founder Nancy Jacobson, a former Democratic fundraiser.
For now, Democrats are not willing to take Jacobson’s word for it.
“I don’t want to be doing this. I’d much rather focus on other things. I am concerned, genuinely,” Epting said. “They’re in over their head. They have not given any assurances that they’re clear and sober in their analysis. And when they talk about being able to put the horse back in the barn, they are not consistent about when or how they’re going to do that.”
“They’re just saying, ‘Trust us,’” Epting said. “We can’t. We don’t know you. And the stakes are too high.”
Meanwhile, Nixon joins a growing roster of former elected officials in both parties now affiliated with No Labels. Among the others: Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; former Govs. Jon Huntsman Jr., R-Utah, Larry Hogan, R-Md., and Pat McCrory, R-N.C.; and former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Democrat who became an independent late in his political career.
Manchin and Huntsman, ambassador to China under President Barack Obama and to Russia under Trump, hosted a town hall in New Hampshire this month, driving speculation they may ultimately become the No Labels presidential ticket.
No Labels plans to hold a presidential nominating convention next April in Dallas, and the group is showing no signs of backing off its 2024 plans. With a massive budget fueled by anonymous donations, No Labels can afford to be patient in the fights ahead.
Democrats in Arizona filed a complaint this month with the secretary of state asking to have the group suspended until it discloses it donors. In May, Maine’s top elections official sent a cease-and-desist letter regarding No Labels voter registration efforts after claiming the group was misleading voters.
The group Citizens to Save Our Republic formed a super political action committee this month specifically designed to stop No Labels. The group’s members includes Bennett from Third Way, several advisers to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project and former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo.
Nixon, who declined to criticize Biden or Trump, said he understands that he is walking into a political firestorm. But he said he is passionate about No Labels’ constitutional right to secure a place on the ballot.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Predictions & Picks: Odds, Moneyline, Spread - July 30
Sunday's game between the San Francisco Giants (57-48) and Boston Red Sox (56-48) going head to head at Oracle Park has a projected final score of 5-4 (according to our computer prediction) in favor of the Giants, so expect a tight matchup. The game will begin at 4:05 PM ET on July 30.
The probable starters are Brennan Bernardino (1-0) for the Red Sox and Scott Alexander (6-1) for the Giants.
Red Sox vs. Giants Game Info & Odds
- When: Sunday, July 30, 2023 at 4:05 PM ET
- Where: Oracle Park in San Francisco, California
- How to Watch on TV: NBCS-BA
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Red Sox vs. Giants Score Prediction
Our prediction for this game is Giants 5, Red Sox 4.
Total Prediction for Red Sox vs. Giants
- Total Prediction: Over 8 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 3-7-0 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 44 games, or 54.5%, in which they've been favored.
- This season Boston has won 18 of its 29 games, or 62.1%, when favored by at least -125 on the moneyline.
- The Red Sox have a 55.6% chance to win this game based on the implied probability of the moneyline.
- Boston has scored the sixth-most runs in the majors this season with 521.
- The Red Sox have the 17th-ranked team ERA across all league pitching staffs (4.25).
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The oldest historically Black collegiate fraternity in the U.S. says it is relocating a planned convention in two years from Florida because of what it described as Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration’s “harmful, racist and insensitive” policies towards African Americans.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity said this week that it would move its 2025 convention from Orlando to another location that is yet undecided. The convention draws between 4,000 and 6,000 people and has an economic impact of $4.6 million, the fraternity said.
The decision comes after the NAACP and other civil rights organizations this spring issued a travel advisory for Florida, warning that recently passed laws and policies are openly hostile to African Americans, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Willis Lonzer, the fraternity’s general president, said in statement on Wednesday that the decision was motivated in part by Florida’s new education standards that require teachers to instruct middle school students that slaves developed skills that “could be applied for their personal benefit.”
“Although we are moving our convention from Florida, Alpha Phi Alpha will continue to support the strong advocacy of Alpha Brothers and other advocates fighting against the continued assault on our communities in Florida by Governor Ron DeSantis,” Lonzer said.
An email seeking comment on Saturday about the fraternity’s decision was sent to Jeremy Redfern, the governor’s press secretary and the governor’s office.
DeSantis, who is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, has come under fire this week over Florida’s new education standards. Among those criticizing the Florida governor on Friday was a rival for the Republican nomination, U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the Senate.
Responding to the criticism, DeSantis said Friday that he was “defending” Florida “against false accusations and against lies. And we’re going to continue to speak the truth.”
In May, the NAACP joined the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), a Latino civil rights organization, and Equality Florida, a gay rights advocacy group, in issuing travel advisories for the Sunshine State, where tourism is one of the state’s largest job sectors. The groups cited recent laws that prohibited state colleges from having programs on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as critical race theory, and the Stop WOKE Act that restricts certain race-based conversations and analysis in schools and businesses.
They also cited laws that they say made life more difficult for immigrants in Florida and limited discussions on LGBTQ topics in schools.
At least nine other organizations or associations have pulled the plug on hosting conventions in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, two of the state’s most population convention cities, because of Florida’s political climate, according to local media reports.
Florida is one of the most popular states in the U.S. for tourists, and tourism is one of its biggest industries. More than 137.5 million tourists visited Florida last year, marking a return to pre-pandemic levels, according to Visit Florida, the state’s tourism promotion agency. Tourism supports 1.6 million full-time and part-time jobs, and visitors spent $98.8 billion in Florida in 2019, the last year figures are available.
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Red Sox vs. Giants: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Run Line, Home/Road Splits
Triston Casas and the Boston Red Sox head into the final of a three-game series against Joc Pederson and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.
The Red Sox have been listed as -125 moneyline favorites for this matchup against the Giants (+105). An 8-run total has been set for this contest.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Odds & Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 4:05 PM ET
- TV: NBCS-BA
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Recent Betting Performance
- In six games as the favorite over the last 10 matchups, the Red Sox have a record of 3-3.
- The Red Sox and their opponents have combined to hit the over three times in their last 10 games with a total.
- Sportsbooks have not set a spread for any of the Red Sox's last 10 games. Boston games have gone under the set point total five consecutive times, and the average total in this streak was 9.5 runs.
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Red Sox Betting Records & Stats
- The Red Sox have won 54.5% of the games this season when they were favored on the moneyline (24-20).
- When it has played as moneyline favorites with odds of -125 or shorter, Boston has a record of 18-11 (62.1%).
- The Red Sox have an implied moneyline win probability of 55.6% in this matchup.
- In the 102 games in which oddsmakers have set an over/under for Boston, it has combined with opponents to go over the total 51 times (51-48-3).
- The Red Sox have gone 3-6-0 against the spread this season.
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PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Not long ago, Marine Col. Jennifer Nash, a combat engineer with war deployments under her belt, made a vow to fellow officers as they headed to a dinner in Atlanta: She would get two new recruiting contacts by the end of the evening.
She admits recruiting is not the job that she or other Marines had in mind when they enlisted. But after stints as a recruiter and senior officer at the Eastern recruiting command, she has become emblematic of the Corps’ tradition of putting its best, battle-tested Marines on enlistment duty. They get results.
Marine leaders say they will make their recruiting goal this year, while the active-duty Army, Navy and Air Force all expect to fall short. The services have struggled in the tight job market to compete with higher-paying businesses for the dwindling number of young people who can meet the military’s physical, mental and moral standards.
On that night, Nash achieved her own goal. She had gotten the valet at the hotel and the hostess at the restaurant to provide their phone numbers and to consider a Marine career.
Nash’s boss, Brig. Gen. Walker Field, who head the Eastern recruiting region, says the Corps has historically put an emphasis on selecting top-performing Marines to fill recruiting jobs. He says that has been a key to the Marines’ recruiting success, along with efforts to increase the number of recruiters, extend those who do well and speed their return to high schools, where in-person recruiting stopped during the COVID-19 pandemic.
He said his recruiters — who cover the territory between Canada and Puerto Rico and as far west as Mississippi — will meet their mission and expect to have 30% of their 2024 goal when they start the next fiscal year, Oct. 1. More broadly, Marine officials say they expect the Corps to achieve its recruiting target of more than 33,000.
Last year, the Navy, Air Force and Marines had to eat into their pools of delayed entry applicants in order to make their goals. The Marines will avoid that this year.
“That would be a great ending,” said Field, speaking to The Associated Press on a recent steamy day at South Carolina’s Parris Island, along the Atlantic Coast. “I’m bearish for not only concluding FY23 on a strong footing, but also how we set the conditions for FY24.”
The Marine Corps may get some help from its small size. The Army, for example, has a recruiting goal of 65,000 this year, which is nearly double the Corps’, and expects to fall substantially short of that. Air Force and Navy officials say they will also miss their goals, although the Space Force, which is the smallest service and does its recruiting within Air Force stations, is expected to meet its goal of about 500 recruits.
Sitting in the shadow of Parris Island’s replica of the Iwo Jima monument, Field said his biggest challenge is that a number of Marine hopefuls cannot pass the military’s academic test, known as the Armed Services Voluntary Aptitude Battery.
That is a widespread problem, but the Army recently set up a program that targets recruits who score below 30 on the test and provides schooling for several weeks to help them pass. Already more than 8,800 recruits have successfully gone through the classes, raised their scores and moved on to basic training.
The Navy is taking another route with a pilot program that allows up to 20% of their recruits to score below 30 on the test, as long as they meet specific standards for their chosen naval job. Marine leaders, however, do not take those lowest scoring recruits, and so far have no plans for any type of formal improvement program such as the Army’s.
Field said the Marines are repositioning recruiting stations, moving them around based on where population totals have increased in the latest census. More important, he said, the Corps maintains its focus on choosing the right recruiters, encouraging successful ones to stay in the job and increasing the number of Marine reservists tapped for recruit duties from the current 31 to 96 by the end of next year.
Nash, who until last month was assistant chief of staff for the Eastern region, said Marines are hand-selected for recruiting command jobs. Many three- and four-star Marines, including former Defense Secretary James Mattis, will cite their years doing enlistment duty.
“We put our best and brightest in those positions,” said Nash, adding that those chosen for recruiting posts have a proven track record of success in previous assignments and have demonstrated critical leadership skills. “That’s why they got selected, because they were above their peers.”
She acknowledged that the first time she was picked for a recruiting job she was “voluntold.” But now, recounting her sales pitch in Atlanta, her rapid fire pitch comes without taking a breath.
“I say, ‘Hey, ever thought about being Marine? We’re a bunch of Marines. And, you know, I think you potentially could be a good Marine. You ever thought about it?’ And usually you get, ‘Yeah, I thought about it.’ And I’m, like, ‘What’s holding you back? Would you like to learn more about your opportunities?’ ‘Absolutely.’ `OK. Mind giving me your name and phone number? I’ll have one of my recruiters give you a phone call.’”
The Marines have resisted increasing bonuses to attract recruits — something the other services have found helpful.
Gen. Eric Smith, the acting Marine Corps commandant, got some ribbing for his response when he was asked about bonuses during a naval conference in February.
“Your bonus is you get to call yourself a Marine,” he said. “That’s your bonus, right? There’s no dollar amount that goes with that.”
Field, Nash and others also say the Corps prefers to give a lot of recruits a few thousand dollars, rather than increasing the amount and giving money to far fewer people.
Field said that getting Marine recruiters in uniform back into high schools this year, after several years of COVID-19 restrictions, has been a key driver. There, young people line up to compete in pull-up contests, vying for a free T-shirt if they can do 20. And recruiters say many are drawn to the cache of being a Marine.
“If you told me you’ll give me $10 million worth of advertising and I can do something with it, or you’ll give me 10 great-looking Marines in a Marine uniform — what’s going to get the most value? Give me those 10 Marines and give me a day,” Nash said. “We’ll go out and we’ll get more out of that, I think, than $10 million in advertising.” | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-the-few-and-the-proud-arent-so-few-marines-recruiting-surges-while-other-services-struggle/ | 2023-07-30T15:34:35 | 1 | https://fox59.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-the-few-and-the-proud-arent-so-few-marines-recruiting-surges-while-other-services-struggle/ |
How to Watch the Red Sox vs. Giants Game: Streaming & TV Channel Info for July 30
The Boston Red Sox and San Francisco Giants will meet on Sunday at Oracle Park, at 4:05 PM ET, with Justin Turner and LaMonte Wade Jr among those expected to produce at the plate.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Live Stream, TV Channel and Game Info:
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 4:05 PM ET
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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Red Sox Batting & Pitching Performance
- The Red Sox rank 20th in baseball with 116 home runs. They average 1.1 per game.
- Boston ranks sixth in baseball, slugging .435.
- The Red Sox are third in MLB with a .265 batting average.
- Boston is the sixth-highest scoring team in MLB play, averaging five runs per game (521 total).
- The Red Sox rank sixth in MLB with a .332 on-base percentage.
- Red Sox hitters strike out 8.2 times per game, the 10th-lowest average in baseball.
- Boston's pitching staff ranks 13th in the majors with a collective 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings.
- Boston has the 17th-ranked team ERA across all MLB pitching staffs (4.25).
- The Red Sox have the 18th-ranked WHIP in the majors (1.290).
Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher
- Brennan Bernardino (1-0 with a 2.31 ERA and 39 strikeouts in 35 2/3 innings pitched) makes the start for the Red Sox, his fifth of the season.
- In his last appearance -- in relief on Saturday -- the left-hander tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the San Francisco Giants without surrendering a hit.
- He will attempt for his fourth straight appearance without giving up an earned run.
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Five-year anniversary gifts
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Spending a half-decade together is a reason to celebrate. Roses, chocolate and champagne are fitting gifts for almost any anniversary or milestone. However, when you hit the five-year mark in your relationship, you might want to take things up a notch.
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Tradition dictates that the five-year wedding anniversary gift is wood and meant to signal long-lasting strength, wisdom and forgiveness. Still, nowhere does it say that you have to stick to that, and some great gift ideas include perfume, jewelry, shoes, bags and self-care options.
Five-year anniversary wooden gift ideas
I Love You Anniversary Card
If you’re a stickler for tradition and want to make sure you give a gift of wood, one simple way to achieve this is with your card. This laser-cut classic hearts design is more than just any old anniversary card. It’s a keepsake that can last for years to come.
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Kate Posh 5-Years of Marriage Photo Frame
Simple yet also sentimental. This wooden picture frame is engraved and comes in multiple sizes. It has a back-stand easel to display on a table and clips to mount it on the wall.
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2-Stem Natural Wood Roses with Vase
Carved from sugar wood and stained rich chocolate, this stylish, sentimental and symbolic anniversary gift comes with two wooden roses in an oak vase.
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The best fragrance gifts for her
With dazzling floral accents and woodsy notes, this scent exudes femininity and mystery. The may rose and jasmine with citrus notes and soft bourbon vanilla help create this sensual Chanel fragrance, making the perfect gift for a romantic anniversary.
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This scent oozes femininity without being overpowering, with an intoxicating blend of warm and spicy, with keynotes of jasmine, orange blossom and woods and patchouli. It’s also ageless, which makes it perfect for either your 5th or 50th anniversary.
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The best self-care gifts for her
Goop “The Martini” Emotional Detox Bath Soak
Treat your loved one to some peace and tranquility with a soothing bath to relax the mind and body. The pink salt will ease muscles. The chia seed oil hydrates and moisturizes the skin, while the wildcrafted frankincense will soothe the mind. This combination is just as good as a day at the spa.
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Give the gift that spoils your loved one night after night with this slip silk pillowcase that’s a known beauty secret of both beauty experts and dermatologists. Cover her pillow in the highest-grade mulberry silk to help create the ultimate night’s rest.
Herbivore Coco Rose Exfoliating Body Scrub
Pamper your partner with a body scrub made from virgin coconut oil, sugar and Moroccan rose to leave her skin moisturized and smelling of rose petals and coconuts. This luxe body scrub has been clinically tested and proven to offer softer, smoother and less dry skin.
The best jewelry gifts for her
TruMiracle Diamond Stud Earrings
These exquisite half-carat diamonds with side accents will dazzle and sparkle from every angle. They are available in 14-carat gold, white gold and rose gold.
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Sarah Chloe Andi Initial Pendant Necklace in 14k Gold-Plate Over Sterling Silver
This is a delicate and sophisticated pendant necklace you can wear casually or when dressing to impress. It’s set in 14 carat-gold-plate over sterling silver, with a lobster clasp for closure and a beaded chain.
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Le Vian Deep-Sea Blue Topaz & Diamond Statement Ring in 14k Rose Gold
Give her something she can’t help but show off with this dazzling deep-blue-sea topaz ring. It’s enhanced with nude and chocolate diamond rings that add to the color and sparkle. These gorgeous stones are set in a beautiful strawberry gold that will make your anniversary one to remember.
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The best handbag gifts for her
Michael Kors Bedford Legacy Logo Ladies Leather Crossbody Bag
There’s just something about a new handbag that makes a girl smile, so make her grin ear-to-ear with a stylish yet practical black, leather crossbody. This sleek and structured silhouette is an ideal everyday bag to match all outfits while remaining chic.
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The best shoes gifts for her
Badgley Mischka Kiara Embellished Peep-Toe Evening Pumps
You can never go wrong with super sexy shoes, and these sapphire satin peep-toe pumps with embellished detail fit the bill. These showstoppers will make her feel like a million bucks and make for one extraordinary anniversary.
Nine West Women’s Toe Dress Pumps
These shoes will be a gift for you and your loved one because you won’t be able to keep your eyes off her when she’s in these ultra-sexy t-strap stilettos. A mix of faux leather and skinny straps from the toe to the ankle make this exotic heel a special occasion in itself.
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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.
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.
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.
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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Red Sox vs. Giants: Odds, spread, over/under - July 30
Justin Turner and the Boston Red Sox (56-48) will visit LaMonte Wade Jr and the San Francisco Giants (57-48) at Oracle Park on Sunday, July 30, with a start time of 4:05 PM ET.
The Giants have been listed as +105 moneyline underdogs for this matchup with the Red Sox (-125). The game's total is listed at 8 runs.
Red Sox vs. Giants Time and TV Channel
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 4:05 PM ET
- TV: NBCS-BA
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
- Probable Pitchers: Brennan Bernardino - BOS (1-0, 2.31 ERA) vs Scott Alexander - SF (6-1, 3.41 ERA)
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Red Sox vs. Giants Betting Odds, Run Line and Total
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Red Sox vs. Giants Betting Trends and Insights
- This season, the Red Sox have won 24 out of the 44 games, or 54.5%, in which they've been favored.
- The Red Sox have gone 18-11 when playing as moneyline favorites with odds of -125 or shorter (62.1% winning percentage).
- The sportsbooks' moneyline implies a 55.6% chance of a victory for Boston.
- The Red Sox have a 3-3 record over the six games they were favored on the moneyline in their last 10 matchups.
- In its last 10 outings, Boston and its opponents combined to hit the over on the total three times (all 10 games had set totals).
- The Giants have been underdogs in 43 games this season and have come away with the win 24 times (55.8%) in those contests.
- This season, the Giants have come away with a win 12 times in 26 chances when named as an underdog of at least +105 or worse on the moneyline.
- The Giants have played as underdogs in three of their past 10 games and won one of those contests.
- In the last 10 games with a total, San Francisco and its opponents are 2-8-0 when it comes to hitting the over.
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While the kids are on home instruction, there’s no better time than now to school them — on the 80s and 90s movies, that is. These decades are pop-culture treasure troves from which many of our fondest memories are plucked.
That’s why you and the kiddos should curl up on the couch and revisit your favorite flicks. Believe it or not, many of them are rich in educational value, even if it’s a matter of drawing the line with feathered bangs.
Our team rounded up essential 80s and 90s cinematic masterpieces for you to share with your kids as they begin their new favorite class, Film Studies 101: The Wonder Years.
Shop this article: Sister Act (1993), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Sixteen Candles (1984)
Rated PG
Sister Act (1993)
Witness protection doesn’t need to be boring, especially when you send a Vegas lounge singer into a nunnery for selling out her mob boyfriend. Sister Mary Clarence brings a little jazz to the sisterhood, and you’ll probably sing along to this one — much to the chagrin of the kids.
Other subjects covered: Music theory, criminal justice, religion
Also available at Disney+
The Sandlot (1993)
The summer of 1962 is a formative one for this motley crew of young baseball players. From awkward interactions with girls to dealing with bullying, it’s an all-ages relatable story. And yes, there are plenty of inside jokes that only true baseball fans will appreciate.
Other subjects covered: Bildungsroman, baseball history, bullying
Also available at Starz
Beetlejuice (1988)
Introduce the kiddos to Lydia, a teen undergoing major life adjustments. Moving and making new friends in less-than-ideal situations isn’t easy, especially when you befriend the ghosts of tenants past in your new home — some of whom have colorful personalities.
Other subjects covered: Blended families, real estate ethics, exorcisms
Life is Beautiful (1998)
In an attempt to shield his son from the reality of Nazi occupation in Italy, a quirky Jewish bookshop owner turns their new way of life into a game. The lighthearted approach to keeping young Guido out of harm’s way without further traumatizing him is truly touching.
Other subjects covered: WW2 history, European geography, family dynamics
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Soul-sucking witches from 1693 surface 300 years later to give young Max a run for his money in Salem, Mass. Kids will be enthralled with his journey, as it shows how the actions of a single person has the potential to impact — or save — an entire town.
Other subjects covered: Early American history, time management, the effervescent Bette Midler
Also available at Disney+
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989)
Whoa! Bill and Ted are the unintentional professors of this crash-course in world history. Join them as they adapt to ancient cultures and interact with historical figures — in a most excellent way.
Other subjects covered: the French Revolution, Greek philosophy, DIY repairs
Also available at Starz
Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
The concrete jungle of New York City is a far cry from where Mimi-Siku was raised in the remote Canaima region of Venezuela. Upon arrival, he has to get used to Western traditions, a father he’s never met, and unexpected shenanigans involving the Russian mob.
Other subjects covered: Cultural diffusion, New York City architecture, table manners
Top Gun (1986)
Follow Kenny Loggins’s advice: Ride into the danger zone. Few things are as cool as Maverick rocking Ray-Bans and breaking the sound barrier. Cruise through the skies in style — and in preparation for this summer’s second installment to the iconic 80s blockbuster.
Other subjects covered: Aerospace engineering, gravity, classic 80s music
Rated PG-13
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
A star-studded cast does Shakespeare justice in this modern spin on The Taming of the Shrew. High school can be the cruelest of times with unrequited love, impenetrable cliques, and popularity contests. Personality perseveres, though: being nice matters, and true love can prevail.
Other subjects covered: Courtly love, sibling rivalries, puberty
Also available at Disney+
Jurassic Park (1993)
Who doesn’t love a nature versus nurture story told through misadventures in a dinosaur theme park? Kids can flex their problem-solving skills by coming up with ways to escape velociraptors running amok — and may emerge as budding paleontologists.
Other subjects covered: Evolution, GMOs, the dangers of portable toilets
Titanic (1997)
Follow the larger-than-life story of Jack and Rose, star-crossed lovers divided by class, set on the ill-fated Titanic. Besides learning about the ship’s history, you’ll also explore how this mega-budget movie managed to pull off its special effects.
Other subjects covered: Early 20th century history, cinematic history, anatomy of a ship
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Think it’s hard to relate to a high school slacker cutting class when you miss school? Think again. Ferris Bueller plays hooky and bites off more than he can chew trying to evade the principal. It’s a great lesson on the snowball effects of decision-making — not to mention joyriding.
Other subjects covered: Driver’s education, historic Chicago, the dramatic fourth wall
Clueless (1995)
This satirical commentary on 90s Valley Girls is very loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma. Slice through the vivacious verbiage to see the true heart of the story. Cher’s tireless mission as a social butterfly reveals good intentions, despite hang-ups with designer clothing.
Other subjects covered: 90s fashion, British Romantic literature, epic closet organization
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Running with scissors is not encouraged, and neither is falling in love when you have them for hands. This Franken-fantasy love story is endearing and illustrates the importance of not judging others by their appearance. Besides, we’re all one snip away from having our hearts broken, too.
Other subjects covered: Human anatomy, Johnny Depp as a film icon, landscape architecture
Wayne’s World (1992)
Your kids will never hear an electric guitar the same way again. This 90s spectacle incorporates all things pop culture, including the music and fashion of the era. It’s also fascinating to draw similarities between this low-budget basement show and modern-day live-streaming.
Other subjects covered: History of social media, 80s classic rock and metal, fashionable flannel
Rated R
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Sixteen is already hard enough, and things get more complicated when your sister’s wedding overshadows your birthday. Follow Sam as she becomes embroiled in a challenging relationship with her crush and navigates the antics of nerdy teenage boys.
Other subjects covered: Sex education, Molly Ringwald as a cultural icon, event planning
Also available at Starz
Coming to America (1988)
When Crown Prince Akeem of Zamunda breaks with tradition and refuses an arranged marriage, he travels to none other than New York City to find an independent woman. East and West collide during Akeem’s courtship attempts, which are awkward and borderline inappropriate.
Other subjects covered: Cultural diffusion, courtship, international travel
Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1994)
To be fair, this film is technically PG-13, but it should be R. Set in jolly England, this comical delight is an un-PC retelling of Robin Hood. Toilet humor abounds, including a character named Latrine. The puns are awful, the names are worse, and if you do nothing else, duck and cover when Blinkin picks up a crossbow.
Other subjects covered: Medieval times, scriptwriting, personal hygiene
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CHICAGO (AP) — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout, Katherine Paul. All her tours, including one headlining across North America, were canceled and she feared her ascending music career might be over.
She got a day job at a nonprofit and returned to the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s homelands in Western Washington. But as Paul, or KP to her friends, spent time in the cedar forests and walked along the Skagit River, she turned to her guitar to deal with the isolation and stress. Those snippets, recorded on her phone, provided the foundation for what would become songs on her powerful, grunge-soaked new record “The Land, The Water, The Sky.”
“I feel like if the pandemic hadn’t happened, I probably wouldn’t have made this record,” said KP, who writes the songs, sings and plays guitar in the band that was the only Native American artist at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago this month.
“I spent a lot of time outside. I spent a lot more time than normal going on hikes, being part of the land,” she continued. “It’s not like I never do that stuff but it brought me back to a place where this is who I am.”
The new record, which came out in February, helped launch what has probably been the most successful year so far for Black Belt Eagle Scout. The band toured Europe and will go to Australia later this year. Two of her songs, “Soft Stud” from an earlier record and “Salmon Stinta” from her latest, appear this season on the television series “Reservation Dogs.”
Reservation Dogs Music Supervisor Tiffany Anders said she was introduced to the band’s music by the show’s creator, Sterlin Harjo, when they started working on the second season.
“It’s always been important for us on this show to include Native American artists, but beyond representation, Black Belt Eagle Scout’s music is beautiful and emotional, and fits these characters, their world and landscape — and the vibe of the show,’” she said in a statement.
Then there was Pitchfork, a three-day festival that is a significant milestone for indie musicians. The festival is held every year in Chicago’s Union Park and this year’s headliners included Bon Iver, Big Thief and The Smile, which has members of Radiohead.
She admitted stepping on that stage last weekend was nerve-wracking given her high hopes for the show, a feeling compounded by concerns that storms could scuttle their performance. But as she launched into the blistering set of mostly new songs in front of thousands of eager fans, KP found solace in her guitar. She launched several long jams that were punctuated by her twirling her jet-black hair around to the point it obscured her face.
“It was totally a moment,” she said with a laugh.
“I kind of cried after we played because it felt so meaningful,” she added. “Like, I’ve always wanted to play this music festival. I remember trying to play one of the years before the pandemic when I was touring and it didn’t happen. This year, I was just so stoked to play.”
Reaching Pitchfork has been a long journey for the 34-year-old artist, who is a member of the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community and left her home on the reservation in LaConner, Washington, when she was 17 to attend Lewis & Clark College in Oregon and play rock music.
Growing up on the reservation off the Washington coast on islands in the Salish Sea, she drummed and sang cultural songs. As a teenager, she discovered local Pacific Northwest bands like Mount Eerie and the sounds of the Riot Grrrl movement and played one of her first gigs at a small bar called Department of Safety. She moved to Portland, Oregon, due to its outsized role in the indie scene that featured bands like Sleater-Kinney and quickly immersed herself in the music scene playing drums and guitar.
She joined an all-female outfit whom she met at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in Portland. She went on to play a lot of small, basement shows with bands like Genders — whose wolf tattoo she still has on her left arm.
But she wanted to write her own songs and formed Black Belt Eagle Scout in 2013. Her early music was defined by her ethereal singing about love, friendship and healing — often only accompanied by minimal guitar strumming. But she did rock out on songs like “Soft Stud,” which featured searing solos.
“She is a really an authentic musician and she carries a lot of power on stage with her presence and sound,” Claire Glass, who plays guitar in the band and first saw KP seven years ago.
KP has said her Native American identify has always been present on her records. But her latest music paints a more vivid picture of life on the Swinomish reservation. There are references to chinook salmon, which are traditionally fished, and a powwow dance.
“I started thinking of feeling grateful for the life that I have been given; this place that I’m from; how much the land, the water, the sky means to me — being surrounded by it,” KP said of writing the song ”Don’t Give Up.” “It has so much more meaning because the land, that’s where my people are from.”
Her songs aren’t meant to directly confront issues like the crisis of missing and murdered Native American women or tribes’ forced relocation. It’s not the way she writes songs. Instead, she envisions them connecting with people, drawing more Native Americans to indie rock shows in places like Minneapolis, which has a vibrant Native American community, and inspiring young Native Americans to connect with her after shows.
“Isn’t me like being here existing with my music good enough? Can’t I just be who I am?” she asked, adding she doesn’t need to speak out from stage about these issues because being Native often means she is already wrestling with them. A judge, for example, ruled in March that BNSF Railway intentionally violated the terms of an easement agreement with the tribe by running 100-car trains carrying crude oil over the reservation.
“As a Native person, you know someone who is missing. Your tribe is trying to get your land back. Those are topics that are part of your every day life,” she said. ”I care about those things deeply but there are certain ways in which my music is, maybe not as direct, but it can be healing.”
KP also doesn’t want to be seen just as a rock musician or as a Native artist. “I am a musician who happens to be Native, but I am also a Native musician … I think I am always both,” she said.
Her latest record aims to show that.
“I kind of had in the back of mind, just kept thinking what would Built to Spill do,” KP said of the guitar-heavy, indie-rock band from the Pacific Northwest. “I’ve gone on tour with them and seen their three guitars at one point playing together and how they overlap and all these other things.”
It’s also a more collaborative effort with more musicians playing on the record— a departure for KP, who is accustomed to doing everything herself. A cellist who played with Nirvana, Lori Goldston, is featured on several songs, as are two violinists, as well as a saxophone and mellotron player.
Takiaya Reed, a first-time producer who is also in a doom metal band, described the experience of working on the record as “beautiful and amazing” and said the two bonded over their love of punk. Reid also brought her classical training and love of “heavier sounds” to the studio.
“We approached it fearlessly. It was wonderful to be expansive in terms of sonic possibilities,” she said.
KP also wanted to find a place for her parents, whom she had grown especially close to during the pandemic, to play on the record. She chose the song “Spaces,” which she described as having a “healing vibe.” Her dad, who is one of the main singers at the tribe’s cultural events, embraced the idea of lending his powerful powwow chant to the song. Her mom sang harmonies.
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Red Sox vs. Giants Probable Starting Pitchers Today - July 30
The Boston Red Sox (56-48) and San Francisco Giants (57-48) play on Sunday at 4:05 PM ET at Oracle Park, attempting to break a 1-1 series tie.
The Red Sox will give the nod to Brennan Bernardino (1-0, 2.31 ERA), who is eyeing win No. 2 on the season, and the Giants will turn to Scott Alexander (6-1, 3.41 ERA).
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Red Sox vs. Giants Pitcher Matchup Info
- Date: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Time: 4:05 PM ET
- TV: NBCS-BA
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Venue: Oracle Park
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- Probable Pitchers: Bernardino - BOS (1-0, 2.31 ERA) vs Alexander - SF (6-1, 3.41 ERA)
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Red Sox Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Brennan Bernardino
- The Red Sox's Bernardino (1-0) will make his fifth start of the season.
- The left-hander's last appearance came in relief on Saturday when he threw a scoreless third of an inning out of the bullpen against the San Francisco Giants without allowing a hit.
- The 31-year-old has an ERA of 2.31, a 4.88 strikeout-to-walk ratio and a WHIP of 1.000 in 31 games this season.
- He is looking for his fourth appearance in a row with no earned runs allowed.
Brennan Bernardino vs. Giants
- The Giants have scored 472 runs this season, which ranks 15th in MLB. They have 854 hits, 20th in baseball, with 121 home runs (15th in the league).
- This season, the left-hander has pitched against the Giants in one game, and they have gone 0-for-1 over a third of an inning.
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Giants Probable Starting Pitcher Tonight: Scott Alexander
- The Giants are sending Alexander (6-1) to the mound for his third start of the season.
- His last appearance was out of the bullpen on Thursday when the left-hander tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while allowing only one hit.
- Opposing hitters have a collective batting average of just .220 against him this season. He has a 3.41 ERA and 5 strikeouts per nine innings over his 34 games.
- He will attempt for his third straight outing without giving up an earned run.
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Types of residential water heaters
Residential water heaters come in tank, tankless and hybrid varieties. Each type has its own distinct characteristics; benefits as well as drawbacks. By looking at factors including cost, energy efficiency, maintenance and lifespan, you’ll be able to determine which type is right for your home.
Shop this article: Rheem 50-Gallon Residential Electric Water Heater, Stiebel Eltron Tempra 36 Plus Tankless Heater, A.O. Smith 50-Gallon Hybrid Heat Pump Water Heater
Tank water heaters
Traditional water heaters feature a tank that stores hot water until it’s needed. They range in size from 30-50 gallons and run on either gas or electricity. These units cost less upfront compared to tankless and hybrid water heaters. Since they’re the most common type, costs associated with installation, repairs and maintenance are relatively low in comparison. Tank water heaters are associated with the most energy loss, referred to as standby heat loss. They waste energy by maintaining hot water in the tank when not in use.
Traditional water heaters have the shortest lifespan compared to the other types, typically lasting 8-12 years. Exposure to water, oxygen and minerals corrodes the tank over time, causing it to leak; this process is usually what causes a tank water heater to cease functioning.
Tankless water heaters
Also referred to as on-demand water heaters, tankless models are powered by gas or electricity. According to the Department of Energy, “for homes that use 41 gallons or less of hot water daily, demand water heaters can be 24–34% more energy efficient than conventional storage tank water heaters.” While tankless water heaters cost more up-front and are pricier to install compared to tank units, energy savings make them more cost-effective in the long run. Tankless heaters also take up significantly less space compared to tank and hybrid models.
Tankless water heaters have the longest lifespan, capable of lasting around 15 to 20 years. This is in part due to the fact that they do not operate constantly the way a traditional tank heater does. However, tankless water heater components may also experience corrosion, eventually.
Hybrid water heaters
Hybrid water heaters run on minimal electricity, consisting of a tank and a heat pump. They’re larger than tank water heaters, with sizes ranging from 50 to 80 gallons. Unlike tank and tankless units, they don’t directly generate heat — heat is taken from the surrounding air and transferred into the tank. For this reason, hybrid water heaters are among the most energy-efficient options on the market. However, they are costly and more expensive to install compared to traditional storage tank heaters. Hybrid water heaters function best when the temperature of the surrounding air remains at or above 40 degrees.
Hybrid water heaters tend to last around 13-15 years. Similar to tankless water heaters, they do not run continuously, which increases their lifespan. They still contain a tank capable of corroding, though, so they won’t last as long as tankless units.
Best tank water heaters
Rheem 50-Gallon Residential Electric Water Heater
This electric water heater has a 50-gallon capacity suitable for households of 3-5 people. The water heater includes a 6-year tank and parts warranty.
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Rheem 40-Gallon Residential Electric Water Heater
If you’re looking for an electric model for a smaller household, this unit is a better option. It can reliably heat water for two to four people, with an included six-year tank and parts warranty.
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Rheem 40-Gallon Natural Gas Water Heater
This natural gas heater with a 40-gallon capacity can support households of 2-4 people. It features a push-button ignition for an easier startup process. You’re covered with a 6-year tank and parts warranty, as well.
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Best tankless water heaters
Stiebel Eltron Tempra 36 Plus Tankless Heater
This tankless electric option provides a continuous output of hot water for three to four bathrooms in warm climates or two to three bathrooms in cooler climates. It has a digital display and preset temperature buttons that simplify operation. This heater comes with seven-year leakage and three-year parts warranties.
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EcoSmart ECO 27 Tankless Water Heater
Another electric pick, this tankless model can heat up to 6 gallons of water per minute, ideal for apartment and condo units in warmer climates. It features a digital display and dial temperature controls. The lifetime warranty offers peace of mind.
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Eemax Electric Tankless Water Heater
In cold climates, this tankless electric model produces enough hot water for one shower and two sinks to run simultaneously. In warmer climates, this heater can support up to four showers running at once. It features a digital display and dial controls, plus 5-year leak and 1-year parts warranties with purchase.
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Best hybrid water heater
A.O. Smith 50-Gallon Hybrid Heat Pump Water Heater
This hybrid water heater has a 50-gallon tank capable of servicing households of three to five people. You can access efficiency, hybrid, electric and vacation operating modes using the electronic interface. The electric heater comes with a six-year tank and parts warranty.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Six straight days of 12-hour driving. Single digit paychecks. The complaints come from workers in vastly different industries: UPS delivery drivers and Hollywood actors and writers.
But they point to an underlying factor driving a surge of labor unrest: The cost to workers whose jobs have changed drastically as companies scramble to meet customer expectations for speed and convenience in industries transformed by technology.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated those changes, pushing retailers to shift online and intensifying the streaming competition among entertainment companies. Now, from the picket lines, workers are trying to give consumers a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to produce a show that can be binged any time or get dog food delivered to their doorstep with a phone swipe.
Overworked and underpaid employees is an enduring complaint across industries — from delivery drivers to Starbucks baristas and airline pilots — where surges in consumer demand have collided with persistent labor shortages. Workers are pushing back against forced overtime, punishing schedules or company reliance on lower-paid, part-time or contract forces.
At issue for Hollywood screenwriters and actors staging their first simultaneous strikes in 40 years is the way streaming has upended entertainment economics, slashing pay and forcing showrunners to produce content faster with smaller teams.
“This seems to happen to many places when the tech companies come in. Who are we crushing? It doesn’t matter,” said Danielle Sanchez-Witzel, a screenwriter and showrunner on the negotiating team for the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike since May. Earlier this month, the Screen Actors Guild–American Federation of Television and Radio Artists joined the writers’ union on the picket line.
Actors and writers have long relied on residuals, or long-term payments, for reruns and other airings of films and televisions shows. But reruns aren’t a thing on streaming services, where series and films simply land and stay with no easy way, such as box office returns or ratings, to determine their popularity.
Consequently, whatever residuals streaming companies do pay often amount to a pittance, and screenwriters have been sharing tales of receiving single digit checks.
Adam Shapiro, an actor known for the Netflix hit “Never Have I Ever,” said many actors were initially content to accept lower pay for the plethora of roles that streaming suddenly offered. But the need for a more sustainable compensation model gained urgency when it became clear streaming is not a sideshow, but rather the future of the business, he said.
“Over the past 10 years, we realized: ‘Oh, that’s now how Hollywood works. Everything is streaming,’” Shapiro said during a recent union event.
Shapiro, who has been acting for 25 years, said he agreed to a contract offering 20% of his normal rate for “Never Have I Ever” because it seemed like “a great opportunity, and it’s going to be all over the world. And it was. It really was. Unfortunately, we’re all starting to realize that if we keep doing this we’re not going to be able to pay our bills.”
Then there’s the rising use of “mini rooms,” in which a handful of writers are hired to work only during pre-production, sometimes for a series that may take a year to be greenlit, or never get picked up at all.
Sanchez-Witzel, co-creator of the recently released Netflix series “Survival of the Thickest,” said television shows traditionally hire robust writing teams for the duration of production. But Netflix refused to allow her to keep her team of five writers past pre-production, forcing round-the-clock work on rewrites with just one other writer.
“It’s not sustainable and I’ll never do that again,” she said.
Sanchez-Witzel said she was struck by the similarities between her experience and those of UPS drivers, some of whom joined the WGA for protests as they threatened their own potentially crippling strike. UPS and the Teamsters last week reached a tentative contract staving off the strike.
Jeffrey Palmerino, a full-time UPS driver near Albany, New York, said forced overtime emerged as a top issue during the pandemic as drivers coped with a crush of orders on par with the holiday season. Drivers never knew what time they would get home or if they could count on two days off each week, while 14-hour days in trucks without air conditioning became the norm.
“It was basically like Christmas on steroids for two straight years. A lot of us were forced to work six days a week, and that is not any way to live your life,” said Palmerino, a Teamsters shop steward.
Along with pay raises and air conditioning, the Teamsters won concessions that Palmerino hopes will ease overwork. UPS agreed to end forced overtime on days off and eliminate a lower-paid category of drivers who work shifts that include weekends, converting them to full-time drivers. Union members have yet to ratify the deal.
The Teamsters and labor activists hailed the tentative deal as a game-changer that would pressure other companies facing labor unrest to raise their standards. But similar outcomes are far from certain in industries lacking the sheer economic indispensability of UPS or the clout of its 340,000-member union.
Efforts to organize at Starbucks and Amazon stalled as both companies aggressively fought against unionization.
Still, labor protests will likely gain momentum following the UPS contract, said Patricia Campos-Medina, executive director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, which released a report this year that found the number of labor strikes rose 52% in 2022.
“The whole idea that consumer convenience is above everything broke down during the pandemic. We started to think, ‘I’m at home ordering, but there is actually a worker who has to go the grocery store, who has to cook this for me so that I can be comfortable,’” Campos-Medina said.
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Rob Refsnyder Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:29 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
Rob Refsnyder -- 1-for-1 with an RBI in his last game -- will be in action for the Boston Red Sox against the San Francisco Giants, with Scott Alexander on the mound, on July 30 at 4:05 PM ET.
In his last appearance, he reached base in his only plate appearance against the Giants.
Rob Refsnyder Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -227)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +875)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +280)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +105)
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Rob Refsnyder At The Plate
- Refsnyder has six doubles, a triple, a home run and 24 walks while hitting .274.
- Refsnyder has gotten at least one hit in 49.1% of his games this year (28 of 57), with at least two hits 11 times (19.3%).
- He has gone deep in just one game this season.
- Refsnyder has had an RBI in 19 games this season (33.3%), including seven multi-RBI outings (12.3%).
- He has scored in 17 games this season (29.8%), including multiple runs in four games.
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Rob Refsnyder Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in MLB.
- The Giants' 3.99 team ERA ranks 10th across all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to allow the third-fewest home runs in baseball (109 total, one per game).
- Alexander (6-1) gets the starting nod for the Giants, his third of the season.
- In his last time out -- out of the bullpen on Thursday -- the left-hander threw a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while surrendering one hit.
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Best time to fertilize your lawn
Whether you’re creating a comfortable space for your family to spend their free time or increasing the curb appeal of your property, maintaining a green and healthy lawn can be difficult. One of the most effective steps you can take is applying fertilizer, but correctly applying it can be tricky. And an incorrect application can do more harm than good.
We at BestReviews want you to be knowledgeable when utilizing fertilizer and have created this guide to help you feel confident you’re adding the correct amount at the appropriate time.
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Fertilizer nutrients
Most fertilizers found in a store will have three numbers printed on the packaging, referring to nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Though all these nutrients are necessary for a better lawn, each performs a specific role in facilitating healthy grass growth.
Nitrogen
Nitrogen is the most important nutrient required for a healthy lawn. All plants, including grass, need nitrogen to produce chlorophyll. Chlorophyll not only acts as food for the plant but also gives the plant its green color. Applying a nitrogen fertilizer helps your grass grow faster, recover from environmental stresses and deters disease and invasive weeds.
Although nitrogen needs to be applied in the correct amount, too much nitrogen can lead to rapid growth with an underdeveloped root system. Too little nitrogen and the yard may become nitrogen deficient, causing the grass to yellow.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus promotes vigorous root growth and helps the grass pull water from the soil. A robust root system encourages proper hydration, helps plants reach full maturity, aids in survival during dry weather and keeps soil and nutrients from blowing away during strong winds and storms.
Potassium
Potassium helps a plant’s cells maintain ‘turgor pressure,’ also known as hydrostatic pressure. Simply put, turgor pressure is what gives the plant’s cell its structural integrity. This allows the plant to survive harsh conditions, like cold weather or drought.
Best grass mowers
EGO Power+ 21-inch 56-volt Lithium-Ion Cordless Mower
Cordless, self-propelled, and able to run 80 minutes on a single charge, the EGO Power 21-inch 56-volt Lithium-Ion Cordless Mower is the rare full-electric mower that feels like a gas model.
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This Black and Decker lawn edger is an affordable and quality option for those with medium to small yards looking for a versatile machine.
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Types of fertilizer
Fast-release vs. slow-release
With nitrogen as the most critical component in facilitating plant growth, you should pay careful attention to how you introduce it into your yard’s ecosystem. Fast-release nitrogen fertilizers provide rapid growth and greening but increase the risk of nitrogen oversaturation.
Slow-release nitrogen fertilizers, also known as controlled-release fertilizers, allow for a more gradual introduction of nitrogen. Plant greening and maturation won’t be rapid, but you can expect even grass growth and lessen the chance of lawn damage.
Liquids vs. granules
Most home fertilizers come in either liquid or granule form. Though both contain the same nutrients needed to facilitate healthy lawn growth, they each have specific benefits and drawbacks.
Liquid fertilizers have a consistent distribution of nutrients and are easy to apply. Liquid fertilizers do not have a slow-release nitrogen option, and the initial cost of a distribution system can be steep.
Granular fertilizers are cheap to purchase, especially in bulk, are easy to store and provide slow-release nitrogen fertilizer options. Though granular fertilizers don’t spread as evenly as their liquid counterparts, the cost of granule distribution systems is far less.
Best granular spreaders
Scotts Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader
With its straightforward operation and ease of use, the Turf Builder Classic Drop Spreader is an ideal fit for those who need to distribute fertilizer over a large area.
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Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard Mini Broadcast Spreader
For gardeners on a budget, Scotts Turf Builder EdgeGuard Mini Broadcast Spreader has plenty of capacity to cover most lawns and gardens.
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Scotts Wizz Hand-Held Spreader
Lightweight and handheld, the Scotts Wizz Hand-Held Spreader is an excellent fit for the gardener with a small or atypical-shaped yard in need of fertilizing.
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When is the best time to fertilize your lawn?
Depending on the needs of your soil and climate, your lawn may require multiple applications of fertilizer throughout the year. However, there are two critical times during the year when spreading fertilizer can most benefit your yard.
Spring
When fertilizer is applied to frozen soil, the plants cannot absorb nitrogen and other nutrients. Instead, the nitrogen rests on top of the soil and can be washed away, collecting in the low parts of a yard or into storm drains and ditches. These areas become damaged from an over-concentration of nitrogen and will need further attention and maintenance.
In spring, wait until the soil has sufficiently thawed and warmed before applying fertilizer. Creating a solid root system early will lead to a healthier and greener yard later, so be cautious not to apply too much nitrogen too fast.
Fall
Late fall is arguably the most critical time to apply fertilizer, as the winter months will be the hardest on your lawn. Research the expected climate in your area and spread fertilizer 2-3 weeks before the soil will freeze. The morning dews during those few weeks will bring the essential nutrients from the fertilizer into the soil. The result will be a lawn more prepared for the cold winter months and a healthier root system when the soil thaws again in the spring.
When to water the lawn after fertilizing
If you decide to apply granular fertilizer to your lawn, water the area immediately to ensure the nutrients are absorbed. Never apply granular fertilizer to wet grass, as wet grass can cause nitrogen to wash away before entering the soil, damaging your lawn.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shawn Steik and his wife were forced from a long-term motel room onto the streets of Anchorage after their rent shot up to $800 a month. Now they live in a tent encampment by a train depot, and as an Alaska winter looms they are growing desperate and fearful of what lies ahead.
A proposal last week by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson to buy one-way plane tickets out of Alaska’s biggest city for its homeless residents gave Steik a much-needed glimmer of hope. He would move to the relative warmth of Seattle.
“I heard it’s probably warmer than this place,” said Steik, who is Aleut.
But the mayor’s unfunded idea also came under immediate attack as a Band-Aid solution glossing over the tremendous, and still unaddressed, crisis facing Anchorage as a swelling homeless population struggles to survive in a unique and extreme environment. Frigid temperatures stalk the homeless in the winter and bears infiltrate homeless encampments in the summer.
A record eight people died of exposure while living outside last winter and this year promises to be worse after the city closed an arena that housed 500 people during the winter months. Bickering between the city’s liberal assembly and its conservative mayor about how to address the crisis, and a lack of state funding, have further stymied efforts to find a solution.
With winter fast approaching in Alaska, it’s “past time for state and local leaders to address the underlying causes of homelessness — airplane tickets are a distraction, not a solution,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska said in a statement to The Associated Press.
About 43% of Anchorage’s more than 3,000 unsheltered residents are Alaska Natives, and Bronson’s proposal also drew harsh criticism from those who called it culturally insensitive.
“The reality is there is no place to send these people because this is their land. Any policy that we make has to pay credence to that simple fact. This is Dena’ina land, this is Native land,” said Christopher Constant, chair of the Anchorage Assembly. “And so we cannot be supporting policies that would take people and displace them from their home, even if their home is not what you or I would call home.”
Bronson’s airfare proposal caps a turbulent few years as Anchorage, like many cities in the U.S. West, struggles to deal with a burgeoning homeless population.
In May, the city shut down the 500-bed homeless shelter in the city’s arena so it could once more be used for concerts and hockey games after neighbors complained about open drug use, trespassing, violence and litter. A plan to build a large shelter and navigation center fell through when Bronson approved a contract without approval from the Anchorage Assembly.
That leaves a gaping hole in the city’s ability to house the thousands of homeless people who have to contend with temperatures well below zero for days at a time and unrelenting winds blasting off Cook Inlet. At the end of June, Anchorage was estimated to have a little more than 3,150 homeless people, according to the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness. Last week, there were only 614 beds at shelters citywide, with no vacancies.
New tent cities have sprung up across Anchorage this summer: on a slope facing the city’s historic railroad depot, on a busy road near the Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson and near soup kitchens and shelters downtown.
Assembly members are slated to consider a winter stop-gap option in August falling far short of the need: a large, warmed, tent-like structure for 150 people.
Summer brings its own challenges: hungry bears last year roamed a city-owned campground where homeless people were resettled after the arena closed. Wildlife officials killed four bears after they broke into tents.
Bronson said he prefers to spend a few hundred dollars per person for a plane ticket rather than spending about $100 daily to shelter and feed them. He said he doesn’t care where they want to go; his job is to “make sure they don’t die on Anchorage streets.”
It’s not clear if his proposal will move forward. There is not yet a plan or a funding source.
Dr. Ted Mala, an Inupiaq who in 1990 became the first Alaska Native to serve as the state’s health commissioner, said Anchorage should be working with social workers and law enforcement to discover people’s individual reasons for homelessness and connect them with resources.
Buying the unsheltered a ticket to another city is a political game that’s been around for years. A number of U.S. cities struggling with homelessness, including San Francisco, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, have also offered bus or plane tickets to homeless residents.
“People are not pawns, they’re human beings,” Mala said.
The mayor’s proposal, while focused on warmer cities, also would fund tickets to other Alaska locations for those who want them.
Clarita Clark became homeless after her medical team wanted her to move from Point Hope to Anchorage for cancer treatment because Anchorage is warmer. The medical facility wouldn’t allow her husband to stay with her, so they pitched a tent in a sprawling camp to stay together.
Having recently found the body of a dead teenager who overdosed in a portable toilet, Clark yearns to return to the Chukchi Sea coastal village of Point Hope, where her three grandchildren live.
“I got a family that loves me,” she said, adding she would use the ticket and seek treatment closer to home.
Danny Parish also is leaving Alaska, but for another reason: He’s fed up.
Parish is selling his home of 29 years because it sits directly across the street from Sullivan Arena. Bad acts by some homeless people — including harassment, throwing vodka bottles in his yard, poisoning his dog and using his driveway as a toilet — made his life “a holy hell,” he said.
Parish is convinced the arena will be used again this winter since there isn’t another plan.
He, too, hopes to move to the contiguous U.S. — Oregon, for starters — but not before asking Anchorage leaders for his own plane ticket out.
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Triston Casas Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:30 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Boston Red Sox, including Triston Casas (.419 batting average in his past 10 games), take on starter Scott Alexander and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.
He had a hitless showing in his last game (0-for-4) against the Giants.
Triston Casas Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -175)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +575)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +185)
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Triston Casas At The Plate
- Casas is batting .252 with 15 doubles, two triples, 16 home runs and 48 walks.
- Among qualified hitters in MLB action, his batting average ranks 86th, his on-base percentage ranks 30th, and he is 32nd in the league in slugging.
- Casas has had a hit in 50 of 90 games this season (55.6%), including multiple hits 20 times (22.2%).
- In 15 games this season, he has homered (16.7%, and 4.7% of his trips to the plate).
- Casas has had at least one RBI in 30.0% of his games this season (27 of 90), with two or more RBI 12 times (13.3%). He has also been responsible for three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- In 43.3% of his games this year, he has scored at least once. And he's had seven games with multiple runs (7.8%).
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Triston Casas Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings put together by the Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in the league.
- The Giants' 3.99 team ERA ranks 10th among all MLB pitching staffs.
- Giants pitchers combine to surrender 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- The Giants will look to Alexander (6-1) in his third start this season.
- His last appearance was out of the bullpen on Thursday when the left-hander threw a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while allowing only one hit.
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Adult lawn games
When you’re a kid, outdoor games help you develop both fine and gross motor skills. They can increase your coordination, teach you admirable character traits such as good sportsmanship and help you burn off excess energy.
However, when you become an adult, outdoor games serve a different purpose. While they still provide entertainment and recreation, outdoor games encourage and facilitate social interaction. The best outdoor games for adults create an atmosphere that sparks conversation and healthy but not too serious competition.
Read on for a list of favorite outdoor games that are best suited for backyard gatherings of adult friends and family members. To make it easy for you to find one that’s best for your needs, they’re organized in five categories: classic games, tossing games, active games, supersized games and novelty options.
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Classic games
These lawn games are timeless favorites that have been around for a hundred years or more.
Croquet is a fun game of skill that’s been around for nearly 200 years. It involves hitting a ball through a course made of wire hoops and a peg. This set comes with everything you need: six durable mallets, six balls, nine hoops, two pegs and a carrying case.
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Hey! Play! Family Bocce Ball Set
Bocce is a simple game of skill that’s been around for over 7,000 years. This set from Hey! Play! offers quality materials at a low price, which translates to value. The balls come in two colors with two distinct patterns to facilitate four-person play.
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You thought bowling was only an indoor sport? In 5,000 B.C., ancient Egyptians used to have fun knocking down objects by rolling stones. With this quality set of ten hardwood pins and two hardwood balls, you can carry on the tradition at your next picnic. This game works best on level, short-cut lawns or dirt.
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Tossing games
Whether tossing steel or beanbags, these fun adult games are designed to test your underarm throwing skills.
St. Pierre American Professional Series Horseshoes
This is not a set for kids. The durable blue and gray horseshoes in this kit are manufactured using forged steel. The set also includes two solid steel 24-inch stakes, an official rule book and a carrying case.
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GoSports Premium Metal Ladder Toss Game Set
If you’re looking for a high-quality ladder toss game, this model is made out of steel, is easy to assemble and comes with a carrying case. The bolos are manufactured using soft rubber with thicker strings to help prevent tangles.
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This regulation-size cornhole game has a vintage style and is manufactured to look like steel-framed barnwood planks but is UV- and water-resistant. The set comes with eight 16-ounce, all-weather beanbags.
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Active games
These active games are best for individuals who like to get a little workout in while playing.
For the individual who takes paddle ball seriously, this high-quality, solid wooden set is made using pine, sapele and beechwood to create a distinctive design. The handles are wrapped in neoprene to provide a confident grip, and the set comes with a canvas drawstring bag for storage and transport.
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Franklin Sports Family Badminton Set
If you’d like to save a little money and still get a great badminton set, this is the way to go. This family-friendly unit features a net that is 20 feet x 1 foot, 6 inches. It’s easy to set up and comes with four steel badminton rackets, two nylon birdies and six ropes and stakes.
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Park & Sun Sports Permanent Outdoor Tetherball Set
Tetherball is a fun and challenging game that is permanently installed so you can play whenever you’d like. The object is simply to wrap the rope completely around the pole. This kit features a two-piece galvanized steel pole to resist rusting along with a soft-touch ball with a durable nylon-wound bladder.
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Supersized games
The fun only gets bigger when you play these tabletop games in extra-large size.
This is the official Hasbro version of the popular stacking game. However, in this supersized version, you can use the 54 hardwood blocks to create towers that are over 5 feet tall.
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ECR4Kids Jumbo 4-to-Score Game Set
Yes, this is the popular kids’ game that goes by a slightly different name when sold by other manufacturers. The object is to connect four giant rings in a straight line on the huge 4-foot-tall game grid. It’s manufactured using lightweight, weather-resistant material so it can be played either indoors or outdoors.
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Triumph Sports 28-Piece Lawn Domino Set
If you’ve ever wanted to play dominoes outside, this is your chance. This wooden set features 28 pieces that are 3 1/2 x 7 inches, making them large enough to play on a picnic table or in the grass. The color-coded pips add a splash of fun while the varnish finish helps with durability.
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Novelty options
If you’d like to look a little off the beaten path for backyard entertainment, these outdoor novelty games might be the best option for you.
University Games Flickin’ Chicken
This creative novelty game is modeled after golf. There’s a target that serves as the hole, and each round, players see who can land their chicken on the target with the least number of throws. Up to four players can play a game.
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GoSports Foam Fire Trophy Hunt
Admittedly, this game was designed for kids, but that doesn’t mean adults can’t have just as much fun playing. Players take turns shooting foam balls at a target that features big game animals to try and earn the most points. The set includes two blasters, 40 foam balls, a target, a carrying case and a rule book.
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GoPong 8-Foot Portable Beer Pong Table
Yes, we’ve saved the best for last! This regulation-size beer pong table is what every serious competitor needs. The compact, fold-up design turns this table into a 2-foot square case in a matter of seconds. While the table comes with six pong balls, you need to supply your own red Solo cups.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Chatter on one of Prabha Rao’s WhatsApp groups exploded last week when India announced that it was severely curtailing some rice exports to the rest of the world, triggering worry among the Indian diaspora in the United States that access to a food staple from home might soon be cut off.
As in any crisis situation — think bottled water and toilet paper— some rushed to supermarkets to stock up, stacking carts with bags and bags of rice. In some places, lines formed outside some stores as panic buying ensued.
But Rao, who lives near Syracuse, New York, was reassured when the proprietor of her Indian market sent out an email to customers to let them know there was no need to worry: There was an ample supply of rice.
At least for now.
An earlier than expected El Niño brought drier, warmer weather in some parts of Asia and is expected to harm rice production. But in some parts of India, where the monsoon season was especially brutal, flooding destroyed some crops, adding to production woes and rising prices.
Hoping to stave off inflationary pressures on a diet staple, the Indian government earlier this month imposed export bans on non-Basmati white rice varieties, prompting hoarding in some parts of the world.
The move was taken “to ensure adequate availability” and “to allay the rise in prices in the domestic market,” India’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution announced July 20. Over the past year, prices have increased by more than 11%, and by 3% over the past month, the government said.
Non-Basmati white rice constitutes about a fourth of the rice exported by India.
“On WhatsApp, I got a lot of messages saying that rice was not going to be available. I think there was a lot of confusion in the beginning because, as you know, rice is very important for us,” Rao said.
“When we first heard the news, there was just mild confusion and people started panic buying because they thought that it may not be available,” she said.
There are scores of different varieties of rice, with people having their preference depending on taste and texture. India’s export ban does not apply to Basmati rice, a long-grain variety that is more aromatic.
The ban applies to short-grain rice that is starchier and has a relatively neutral flavor — which Rao says is preferable in some dishes or favored in specific regions of India, especially in southern areas of the country.
At Little India, a grocery store in New York City’s Curry Hill neighborhood in Manhattan, there was no shortage of Basmati rice and other varieties.
That wasn’t the case at other Indian groceries.
On its Facebook page, India Bazaar, an Indian grocery chain in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, told customers not to panic. “We are working hard to meet all our shoppers’ demands,” the post said.
Customers cleared shelves and waited in long lines to stockpile bags of rice, reported NBC Dallas affiliate KXAS.
“They really wanted to purchase ten, 12, 15 bags,” India Bazaar’s president, Anand Pabari, told the station. “It was a really crazy situation.”
India’s move came days after Russia backed out of a deal to allow Ukrainian wheat safe passage through the Black Sea, prompting warnings that the action could lead to surging prices.
Some economists say the ban might further hurt food supplies around the world, and some governments have urged the Indian government to reconsider the export ban.
At least in the United States, the supply of imported rice from India may not yet be a problem — despite the panic buying — but a long-term ban would certainly deplete that stock.
Roa says she and others will just have to adapt by purchasing rice grown in the United States or imported from other countries.
“I might have to substitute Basmati rice,” she said, “but it doesn’t taste that good, especially with South Indian dishes.”
A U.S. resident for three decades, Rao said she is accustomed to improvising.
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Yu Chang Player Prop Bets: Red Sox vs. Giants - July 30
Published: Jul. 30, 2023 at 10:29 AM EDT|Updated: 1 hour ago
The Boston Red Sox and Yu Chang (.296 slugging percentage over his past 10 games, including one homer), battle starting pitcher Scott Alexander and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park, Sunday at 4:05 PM ET.
He had a hitless performance in his most recent game (0-for-2) against the Giants.
Yu Chang Game Info & Props vs. the Giants
- Game Day: Sunday, July 30, 2023
- Game Time: 4:05 PM ET
- Stadium: Oracle Park
- Live Stream: Watch this game on Fubo!
- Giants Starter: Scott Alexander
- TV Channel: NBCS-BA
- Hits Prop: Over/under 0.5 hits (Over odds: -149)
- Home Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 home runs (Over odds: +800)
- RBI Prop: Over/under 0.5 RBI (Over odds: +250)
- Runs Prop: Over/under 0.5 runs (Over odds: +180)
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Yu Chang At The Plate
- Chang has two doubles, five home runs and three walks while hitting .165.
- Chang has picked up a hit in 11 of 29 games this season, with multiple hits three times.
- He has gone deep in five games this year (17.2%), homering in 5.4% of his plate appearances.
- In 10 games this year (34.5%), Chang has picked up an RBI, and in five of those games (17.2%) he had two or more. He has also driven in three or more of his team's runs in one contest.
- He has scored in 11 games this year (37.9%), but has had no multi-run games.
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Yu Chang Home/Away Batting Splits
Giants Pitching Rankings
- The Giants pitching staff ranks 16th in the league with a collective 8.7 strikeouts per nine innings.
- The Giants have the 10th-ranked team ERA among all league pitching staffs (3.99).
- Giants pitchers combine to give up 109 home runs (one per game), the third-fewest in the league.
- Alexander (6-1) pitches for the Giants to make his third start of the season.
- The lefty last appeared in relief on Thursday, when he tossed a scoreless third of an inning against the Oakland Athletics while giving up one hit.
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A comprehensive guide to pop-up campers
A pop-up camper provides a tentlike experience without having to sleep on the ground. When hitting the road in your pop-up camper, consider what and how to eat, what to sleep in, what toiletries to bring and what to do in case of an emergency.
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What is a pop-up camper?
Pop-up campers are lightweight, compact vehicles that can park in more secluded areas due to their size. They are more affordable than the average camper and are quick to pack up and hook up, making the road trip easier. They can also keep you warmer than a tent in colder months but cooler in the heat of summer.
Pop-up camper setup
There are five aspects of pop-up camper setup.
- Location: Locate where you want to set up your camper and consider the slope of the ground, nearby trees and electrical hookups. This is where to check if your camper is level. If it is not level, you can use blocks to prop up one of the sides before unhooking the tow vehicle.
- Power: To power up the camper, run its electrical cord to the campsite’s electrical hookup after turning off the breaker. Once connected, you can turn the breaker on to provide electricity to amenities such as the sink and the refrigerator. At this point, users can crank down the leg support and crank up the roof.
- Beds: Make sure that the canvas is not holding onto anything and pull the first bed handle out to start setting up the beds. From there, pull the support pole free and position this onto the stud on the frame. Repeat this process for the remaining poles. Lastly, lift both beds to latch the supports until the beds sit down firmly.
- Water and propane: To set up water and propane in your pop-up camper, lift and lower the galley handle until it is in position. Then, link the male end of the propane hose to the female end on the lower frame of the camper. Finally, connect a sanitary water hose from your trailer to the water spigot at the campsite.
- Water heater: To set up the water heater, you need to access the hot water tank, turn the gas knob to “pilot” and hold down. Place a flame on the pilot end of the tube using a long lighter. Hold this down until it stays lit. You should be able to turn on the knob, and the hot water tank should start to heat your water.
Pre-make your food
Before hitting the road in your pop-up camper, make your meals ahead of time. These meals can be complete meals stored in a cooler or prepped to be quickly cooked at a campsite. Also, pre-pack any portion meals that you plan to make by the fire for convenience.
Stock your pop-up camper with necessities
Buy a set of camping pots and pans in advance to prepare for every meal and anything that goes on in the kitchen. This ensures that you do not have to go back and forth for camping utilities or go without food for a short time because you were unprepared. Moreover, pack extra sleeping bags and sheets of various insulation to prepare for any situation that may occur.
Air out your pop-up camper after it rains
Mold and other bacteria are more likely to form when it rains. Due to the foldable nature of the pop-up camper, this bacteria can get into crevices and breed. Before packing up your camper after it rains, make sure everything is dry so that it can be clean to use for the next trip.
Tips for hitting the road in a pop-up camper
If you are a first-time camper, keep your trip close to home in case something goes wrong, or it turns out that you are underprepared. This ensures that you are close to safety and have everything that you need. Additionally, make a grocery list and a checklist for all items that you think you need to bring in advance.
Pop-up camper FAQ
Where do I go to the bathroom while camping?
A. If there is no bathroom in your pop-up camper and you do not want to go out in nature, travel with a portable camping toilet. This item is best for rooftop tents, car campers and drive-up camp spots.
What style of chair is best to bring on a camping trip?
A. Classic camp chairs are a good choice. These chairs have four legs and are very stable. They make sitting and standing an act of ease in comparison to low chairs and rocking chairs. They’re also affordable.
Sleep essentials
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This 3-in-1 blanket, quilt and sleeping bag provides warmth and comfort in 40- to 60-degree weather. The weather-resistant materials help protect the sleeping bag from rain and any other damage caused by the elements.
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Kelty Mistral Sleeping Bag: 40 Fahrenheit Down
This mummy-style sleeping bag keeps heat in while being lightweight and durable. It comes with a stuff sack for storage and features an offset quilt construction to prevent cold spots. CloudLoft insulation locks in heat. The zipper is anti-snag, and the bag fits up to 6 feet in length. Use it inside or outside the pop-up tent.
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Kitchen essentials
Sea to Summit X-Pot Collapsible Camping Cookpot
This camping cook pot is heat-resistant and BPA-free to ensure food safety. The entire pot is collapsible for storage in small spaces. Its aluminum base conducts heat evenly for the best cooking experience and it comes with a strainer lid.
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MalloMe Camping Cookware Mess Kit Gear
This camping cookware kit is portable and made with food-safe, non-toxic anodized aluminum. The kit includes an aluminum nonstick pot, a pot cover, a nonstick pan, two bowls, a folding stainless steel spork, a soup spoon, a wooden spoon spatula, a cleaning sponge and a nylon travel drawstring pouch. It can be easily attached to a backpack and carried to campsites.
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First-aid essentials
Adventure Medical Kits Ultralight Watertight .5 Medical First Aid Kit
This first aid kit provides all the needed materials for any accidents that could happen while camping in your pop-up camper. It includes a wide array of medical supplies to treat pain, inflammation and common allergies. The wraps and bandages assist in immobilizing fractures and provide support. The antiseptic wipes and butterfly bandages help clean small wounds.
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Adventure Medical Sportsman Series Medical Kit
This medical kit provides items that treat common camping injuries. It is organized by injury type for quick access in an emergency and provides all the basic tools needed. This kit is also lightweight and portable.
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OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Two people were killed and two others injured Saturday in a midair collision at an airport in Wisconsin.
A Rotorway 162F helicopter and an ELA Eclipse 10 gyrocopter collided shortly after noon local time at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, authorities said. The aircraft belonged to individuals attending the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in convention in Oshkosh but were not involved in the air show, a statement from the organization said.
The association, citing the Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office, said two people were killed and two injured. The injured were taken to a local hospital and were in stable condition.
The association said further information would be released as additional details are confirmed. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.
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Canada vs. Australia: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
In each team's third matchup in Group B action at the 2023 Women's World Cup, Australia (3 points) and Canada (4 points) square off on Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET.
Sportsbooks have given Australia odds of +117 to win this match, and Canada is at +235 (with the draw at +228). An over/under of 2.5 goals (with the over at +107 and the under at -141) has been set for this game.
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Australia vs. Canada Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Venue: Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
- TV Channel: FOX US
- Total: 2.5
- Australia Moneyline: +117
- Canada Moneyline: +235
Australia vs. Canada World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams rack up a combined 2.5 goals per match, which equals this game's over/under.
- Combined, these teams surrender two goals per game, 0.5 fewer than this match's total.
- Australia has been listed as a moneyline favorite just two other times so far this tournament, and went 1-0-1 in those games.
- Australia has played as a moneyline favorite of +117 or shorter in just one game this tournament, which they won.
- Canada has not played a game this tournament as an underdog.
- Canada has not been a bigger underdog this tournament than the +235 moneyline set for this game.
Australia World Cup Stats
Canada World Cup Stats
- In two Women's World Cup matches for Canada, Adriana Leon has tallied one goal (12th in Women's World Cup play).
- Sophie Schmidt has not scored a goal but has recorded one assist for Canada in Women's World Cup.
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Australia vs. Canada Recent Performance
- Australia went 6-1-4 in 2022 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +6. This year, its record is 5-0-1 against fellow World Cup squads (+7 goal differential).
- Australia faced Nigeria in its last game and lost by a final score of 3-2. The defeated Australia side took 27 shots, outshooting by 17.
- van Egmond and Alanna Kennedy scored the two goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Canada was 10-3-3 versus teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +15. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 2-1-3 (-3 goal differential).
- On July 26 in its last game, Canada beat Ireland 2-1. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- Leon recorded one goal to lead Canada on three shots.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Aaron Judge is giving the New York Yankees an immediate boost — at a time when their front office has some tough decisions to make.
Judge homered and singled twice in his second game back from the injured list and the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-3 on Saturday night. Giancarlo Stanton and Kyle Higashioka went deep as well for New York, which is still 3 1/2 games behind Toronto and Houston for the last two wild cards in the American League.
That’s a tricky spot with Tuesday’s trade deadline approaching.
“We’ve had years where we stick with who we got. We’ve had years where we get some bullpen arms, starters, a big bat,” Judge said. “It comes down to us doing our job on the field and then letting them take care of the rest. We’ll see what happens.”
The Yankees knocked out struggling Orioles starter Tyler Wells (7-6) in the third inning. In the sixth, Isiah Kiner-Falefa capped a 10-pitch at-bat with a three-run double to make it 8-3.
Judge has three walks and three hits in nine plate appearances since returning Friday from the toe injury that kept him out since early June.
Ryan Mountcastle homered for the Orioles, but Clarke Schmidt (7-6) made it through five tough innings and the New York bullpen took it from there.
The Orioles remained 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa Bay atop the AL East.
Judge walked three times Friday night, but the Yankees lost that game 1-0 on a ninth-inning homer by Baltimore’s Anthony Santander. New York’s offense was relentless a night later.
Stanton’s first-inning drive easily cleared the big wall in left field at Camden Yards. Mountcastle tied it in the second, and Baltimore went ahead 2-1 on an RBI infield single by Ramón Urías. That lead was short-lived.
Judge hit a two-run shot — 442 feet to center field — in the third. Then Gleyber Torres added a sacrifice fly an inning later.
Santander made it 4-3 with an RBI groundout in the fifth, but New York broke the game open in the sixth. Cole Irvin allowed a leadoff homer by Higashioka — his third hit of the night — and then one-out singles to Judge, Stanton and Anthony Rizzo.
Bryan Baker came in and struck out DJ LeMahieu, but after fouling off five pitches, Kiner-Falefa cleared the bases with a line drive to left.
“One of the best at-bats of the season right there,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said.
Wells entered the game with a major league-leading WHIP of 0.99, but he allowed three runs, three hits and three walks in 2 2/3 innings. In three starts since the All-Star break, he’s lasted just nine innings total.
“I think we’re going to be talking about a lot of things here coming up,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “Obviously, we’re in a weird week. He’s had tough times his last few starts. I think there are going to be discussions going on.”
Boone said he’s leaning toward giving Judge a day off in the series finale Sunday night. The Yankees are in a stretch of 13 games in 13 days.
“I kind of look at it as, hopefully he’s in a position to start nine or 10 of them,” Boone said. “Forget the toe. He hasn’t come close to playing games for almost two months. As much as I want him in there, we’ve got to be smart here a little bit, especially in this run.”
DIFFERENT ORDER
The Orioles used catcher Adley Rutschman in the leadoff spot because of his ability to get on base. He was hit by a pitch, walked and scored a run.
UP NEXT
New York’s Luis Severino (2-4) starts Sunday night against Baltimore’s Dean Kremer (10-4). It’s the final game of the season series, which is tied 6-all.
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This week, Canada and parts of the United States have confronted unprecedented declines in air quality due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, but people elsewhere in the world have long had to adjust and adapt to living with hazardous pollution levels. In some cases, those levels have improved over time.
NPR correspondents Anthony Kuhn and Eyder Peralta and freelance reporters Shalu Yadav and Kate Bartlett share what it's like in Beijing, Seoul, New Delhi, Mexico City and Johannesburg.
From Beijing to Seoul
I first visited Beijing in 1982, and lived there much of the time between 1992 and 2018.
In most of my years there, the pollution was terrible, especially in winter, although we didn't have ways to measure it. The air had an acrid, sulfurous smell, and soot was everywhere. To me, it was simply the cost of covering — and living — an epic story. People were less aware than they are now of the difference between weather and pollution, fog and smog.
Ahead of the 2008 Olympics, Beijing started to get rid of the coal stoves commonly used in the courtyard dwellings ("siheyuan" in Chinese) of Beijing's old city, and coal-fired heating plants, to help clean up the air ahead of the Games. Factories were moved farther and farther out of the city center. Coal-burning stoves in the courtyards were slowly replaced by electric heat.
While air quality in Beijing has improved in recent years, even now, occasional dust storms blow in from the Gobi desert, turning Beijing's skies yellow in spring and covering everything in gritty dust. AQI readings of 500 or worse are still occasional facts of life.
When I moved to Seoul in 2018, I cheerfully assumed I'd be leaving the air pollution behind. But it has followed me.
In China, we usually spoke of PM2.5, particulate matter that penetrates deep into the lungs. In Seoul, people call it "fine dust."
Much of it blows eastward from northern China over the Korean peninsula. But South Korea's automobiles and heavy industry add their own smog to the miasma — as does, reportedly, North Korea. The pollution is one reason South Koreans were already quite accustomed to wearing face masks, even before COVID.
South Korean and Chinese environmental officials have met numerous times to try to find a joint solution, but with little immediate or visible result. There are plenty of days of AQI over 100 or 150. There's little I can do but cancel outdoor activities, and wait until the air clears.
--Anthony Kuhn, NPR Seoul correspondent
New Delhi
My beloved city is famous for its heritage and Mughlai food — and infamous for its horrid pollution, which reaches AQI levels of 500 to 600 in the winter.
When it's that time of the year, my mornings start with opening my AQI app to check the level of pollution outside. That level decides whether I go for an outdoor run or find a safe indoor space in a gym where air purifiers are showcased as a premium facility.
But some days I don't need my AQI app. It's so bad that my eyes burn as soon as I wake up, I can taste the pollutants in my mouth and my lungs feel like an overworked machine that needs a break!
The pollution is so bad that some studies suggest that breathing it in is as dangerous as smoking about two dozen cigarettes a day.
"Craving a smoke? Come to Delhi!" is an overused joke that circulates in WhatsApp groups here, to share a light moment amid the gloom overcasting the sky and our lives in the city.
Jokes apart, it's a very serious health issue. An estimated 1.7 million Indians died of pollution-related disease in 2019.
It has in fact become a big factor in making my future decisions.
My husband and I have been intently discussing if we should plan our first baby and raise her in this city or move to another city. It's a scary thought — seeing our future kid gasping for breath, and suffering breathing problems like so many other kids in Delhi.
--Shalu Yadav, freelance reporter
Mexico City
Mexico City was once known as the most polluted city in the world.
The air quality here is still bad — on Thursday, the AQI reached 123, which is unhealthy for people with respiratory problems. And you feel it — your eyes get watery, your throat scratchy and the sky looks hazy. But in the 1990s and early 2000s, air quality would routinely hit the 200s. So, how did it get better?
Essentially, the government got tough on pollution with a complex system of countermeasures. Less efficient cars are allowed limited time on the road. And as soon as the air quality gets bad — either too high a concentration of ozone or particulate matter — the government orders even newer, more efficient cars off the streets. They order factories to reduce their output, food vendors are prohibited from using charcoal and road work stops.
If the air quality doesn't improve, the countermeasures get tougher. It often means residents can't drive to work or school, for example, so they have to walk, bike or take public transportation. If it gets bad enough, government offices shut down.
All of this has made a difference. In the 1990s, measures like these were put in place every month. Mexicans used to joke the air was so bad, so often, that birds would die mid-flight. These days, really bad days are rare. We have only a handful of environmental contingencies a year.
--Eyder Peralta, NPR Mexico City correspondent
Johannesburg
Africa is well known for its stunning sunsets and wide open skies – Paul Simon even sung about them in his song "Under African Skies."
So when I moved to Johannesburg as a correspondent, after previously working in heavily polluted Hong Kong, I found the fresh air in my leafy suburb a welcome change.
But in South Africa, one of the world's most unequal countries, air quality depends a lot on where you live.
According to the 2022 World Air Quality Report, the wealthy city of Cape Town had some of the best air quality in the country, while Thabazimbi, an iron mining town in northern Limpopo province had some of the worst.
Such disparities led environmental groups to sue the government last year in a groundbreaking case in which the judge ruled the unsafe levels of air pollution in the coal mining region of Mpumulanga were in breach of residents' constitutional rights to clean air.
Elsewhere on the continent, things are a mixed bag, with countries like Chad, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Egypt all showing high levels of pollution, while Angola and Kenya had relatively low levels.
One of the main impediments to monitoring air quality in Africa is the limited availability of reliable data, according to IQAir, with only 19 countries across the continent monitored.
Chad was found to be the most polluted of those, actually topping the global list as the country with the worst air quality in the world in 2022 – beating New Delhi. IQAir credited the country's regular dust storms as one of the reasons behind the poor levels of air quality.
--Kate Bartlett, freelance reporter
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Ireland vs. Nigeria: Women’s World Cup Group B Odds, Stats and Live Stream - July 31
On Monday, July 31 at 6:00 AM ET, Nigeria (4 points) and Ireland (0 points) match up for each side's final match in Group B at the 2023 Women's World Cup.
The moneyline odds for Nigeria to win this game are +120, with the draw at +234 and Ireland at +218. An over/under of 2.5 goals has been set for this match.
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Game Info
- Date: Monday, July 31, 2023
- Time: 6:00 AM ET
- Location: Brisbane, Australia
- Venue: Suncorp Stadium
- TV Channel: Fox Sports 1
- Total: 2.5
- Nigeria Moneyline: +120
- Ireland Moneyline: +218
Nigeria vs. Ireland World Cup Betting Insights
- These teams average two goals per match combined, 0.5 less than this game's total.
- Opponents of these teams score a combined 2.5 goals per game, equal to this game's total.
- Nigeria has not been a moneyline favorite yet this tournament.
- Nigeria has not played a game this tournament with moneyline odds of +120 or shorter.
- Ireland has been an underdog twice so far this tournament, and went 0-0-2 in those games.
- Ireland has played as an underdog of +218 or more once this tournament and lost that game.
Nigeria World Cup Stats
Ireland World Cup Stats
- Katie McCabe has scored one goal for Ireland in Women's World Cup (two games).
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Nigeria vs. Ireland Recent Performance
- Nigeria went 0-1-7 in 2022 versus teams playing in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of -11. This year, its record is 4-1-1 versus fellow World Cup squads (+5 goal differential).
- Nigeria picked up a win on July 27 against Australia by a final score of 3-2. The victorious Nigeria took 17 fewer shots in the game, 10 compared to Australia's 27.
- Ohale, Oshoala and Kanu combined to score the three goals for their club in the match against .
- In 2022, Ireland was 1-0-0 against teams participating in the 2023 Women's World Cup, with a goal differential of +4. This year its record versus fellow World Cup squads is 1-1-5 (-7 goal differential).
- In its most recent game, Ireland was taken down by Canada 2-1 on July 26. Canada outshot Ireland 16 to 13.
- McCabe had the only goal for Ireland on three shots.
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The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday.
Johnny Johnson is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for killing 6-year-old Casey Williamson after trying to sexually assault her in 2002.
With questions swirling about his mental competency, the execution was halted last Tuesday by a divided three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court. But after the Missouri Attorney General’s Office asked that the full court reconsider, that decision was reversed in a 7-3 ruling.
The case will likely end up before the U.S. Supreme Court before the scheduled execution date.
Attorneys for Johnson have claimed his schizophrenia prevents him from understanding the link between his crime and the punishment. They have also said Johnson has delusions about the devil using his death to bring about the end of the world.
The Missouri Supreme Court in June declined to halt the execution based on the mental health claim. The attorney general’s office challenged the credibility of psychiatric evaluations of Johnson and contended that medical records indicate he is able to manage his mental illness through medication.
Johnson lured the girl to an abandoned glass factory, even carrying her on his shoulders on the walk to the dilapidated site. When he tried to sexually assault her, Casey screamed and tried to break free. He killed her with bricks and rocks, then washed off in the Meramec River. Johnson confessed to the crimes.
Casey’s disappearance set off a frantic search involving first responders and volunteers. Her body was found in a pit less than a mile (1.6 kilometers) from her home, buried beneath rocks and debris.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Aaron Judge homered for the first time since returning from a toe injury, sending a 442-foot drive over the wall in center field in the third inning against Baltimore on Saturday night.
The two-run shot gave the New York Yankees a 3-2 advantage. Giancarlo Stanton hit a solo homer in the first.
Judge was hitless since returning Friday, although he drew three walks in that game. He hit a towering flyout in his first plate appearance Saturday. Then he connected off Tyler Wells two innings later.
It was his 20th home run of the season. Judge started in right field Saturday after he was the designated hitter Friday.
Judge had been out since tearing a ligament in his right big toe June 3.
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