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Giants host the Nationals to begin 3-game series

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

Washington Nationals (14-20, fifth in the NL East) vs. San Francisco Giants (15-18, fourth in the NL West)San Francisco; Monday, 9:45 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Nationals: Jake Irvin (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 1.39 WHIP, three strikeouts); Giants: Anthony DeSclafani (3-1, 2.13 ERA, .82 WHIP, 30 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Giants -222, Nationals +184; over/under is 8 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants host the Washington Nationals on Monday to open a three-game series.San Francisco has a 9-8 record at home and a 15-18 record overall. The Giants have a 7-16 record in games when they have given up a home run.Washington has an 8-8 record in road games and a 14-20 record overall. The Nationals are 11-3 in games when they have more hits than their opponents.The matchup Monday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.TOP PERFORMERS: J.D. Davis leads San Francisco with seven home runs while slugging .520. LaMonte Wade Jr is 11-for-34 with four home runs and six ...

Cardinals play the Cubs after Goldschmidt’s 3-home run game

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

St. Louis Cardinals (11-24, fifth in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (17-17, third in the NL Central)Chicago; Monday, 7:40 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Cardinals: Miles Mikolas (1-1, 5.79 ERA, 1.66 WHIP, 34 strikeouts); Cubs: Marcus Stroman (2-2, 2.18 ERA, 1.09 WHIP, 38 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Cubs -148, Cardinals +125BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Cardinals meet the Chicago Cubs after Paul Goldschmidt hit three home runs on Sunday in a 12-6 win over the Tigers.Chicago has gone 10-9 in home games and 17-17 overall. Cubs hitters are batting a collective .268, the fourth-best team batting average in MLB play.St. Louis has a 5-11 record on the road and an 11-24 record overall. Cardinals hitters have a collective .328 on-base percentage, the 10th-best percentage in the majors.Monday’s game is the first time these teams square off this season.TOP PERFORMERS: Patrick Wisdom leads the Cubs with 11 home runs while slugging .587. Cody Bellinger is 12-for-40 with four double...

China insta a EE.UU. a “reflexionar sobre los pasos en falso” y estabilizar las relaciones bilaterales

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

(CNN) — El consejero de Estado y ministro de Asuntos Exteriores de China, Qin Gang, instó a Estados Unidos a “reflexionar profundamente sobre sus pasos en falso” y a promover la estabilización de los lazos bilaterales durante una reunión con el embajador estadounidense en China, Nicholas Burns, celebrada este lunes en Beijing, según un comunicado del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores chino.Una serie de palabras y acciones equivocadas por parte de EE.UU. “han socavado el impulso positivo que tanto costó conseguir” tras la cumbre presidencial celebrada en Bali el pasado mes de noviembre, poniendo la relación entre ambos “en el congelador”, dijo Qin, según la lectura.“Es imperativo estabilizar las relaciones chino-estadounidenses, evitar una espiral descendente y prevenir accidentes entre China y EE.UU.”, dijo Qin.Beijing advierte sobre un “grave impacto” en las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y China con la visita de la ...

Zelenskyy moves to change Ukraine’s WWII Victory Day in jab at Russia

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday he was planning to align with the West on the May 8 anniversary of the end of World War II, in a swipe at Moscow.“It is on May 8 that most nations of the world remember the greatness of the victory over the Nazis,” Zelenskyy wrote on Twitter.“Today, I submitted a bill to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine [the Ukrainian parliament] proposing that May 8 be the Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in the Second World War of 1939-1945,” he added.Russia, together with some former Soviet states, celebrates the end of World War II on May 9 — a day later than in other allied countries. The agreement marking the capitulation of Nazi Germany was signed late at night on May 8, 1945, in Berlin. But, with the time difference, it was already a day later in Eastern Europe.Until now, Ukraine has celebrated the victory against Nazism on May 9, like Russia.But from now on, May 9 will instead become a “Day of Europe...

Police investigating after at least 4 shot, 2 dead in separate shootings in Boston

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

Boston police are investigating after two people were fatally shot and two others hospitalized following separate shootings in the city Sunday night.Officers responding to a reported shooting on Wildwood Street in Mattapan around 8:30 p.m. found two victims, one of whom was suffering from life-threatening injuries, according to Boston police. The other was taken to a nearby hospital to be treated.Shortly after, police responded to another reported shooting in downtown Boston, where a man who was shot on Kingston Street showed up at the hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds. A fourth man later showed up at a downtown Boston hospital with a gunshot wound. He later died of his injuries. It is unclear where that man was shot.At this time, police do not believe the shootings are related. None of the victims have been named.No additional information has been released.Shortly after those shootings, police responded to two other calls, including an investigation in Roxbury on No...

Lawmakers have tried to change tax rebate law before but failed

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

A plan by state lawmakers to change the way a nearly four-decade old tax rebate law works is not their first attempt to circumvent the will of the voters, according to the former head of the group responsible for the law.Chapter 62F of the General Laws, passed in 1986 through a ballot initiative, was all but forgotten until it was suddenly triggered last year and the state was required to send taxpayers about $3 billion of their money back.House lawmakers, in approving their over $56 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2024, have proposed changing the law so that if it ever again forces rebates on lawmakers, that any money paid out will be untethered from a taxpayer’s income or tax burden.“This déjà vu current effort by the usual suspects to subvert (Citizens for Limited Taxation’s) tax cap law is not their first attempt and they failed the first time around in 1987 when attempting to thwart the voters’ 1986 decision,” Chip Ford, the former Executive Director of the group behind t...

Cape Cod white shark detections hit record-high again last year: Here’s the top hotspots and busiest months for shark activity

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

Great white shark activity again ramped up along the Cape last year, as apex predator detections hit an all-time high for the seventh straight year with researchers tagging more sharks in the region every summer and fall.The total number of shark detections approached 200,000 for the first time last year, according to the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy tagging tracker, which was recently updated with 2022 data. The detection data comes from acoustic receivers, which record the presence of white sharks that have been tagged with transmitters.The count of 193,475 shark detections in 2022 was a record-high for the seventh straight year in the Conservancy’s White Shark Logbook. The previous all-time high from 2021 was 169,938 detections. The Logbook has detection data from as far back as 2010.As researchers with the Conservancy and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries keep tagging white sharks each year, the shark detection data is climbing. Last year’s count of 133 ...

Orioles reset: The Braves series was just an appetizer. Baltimore’s schedule is about to get much harder. | ANALYSIS

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

Was watching the Orioles this weekend a little more stressful than usual?Facing the best team in the National League, with Cy Young-caliber pitchers on the mound and 40,000 fans in the stands, the Orioles and Atlanta Braves battled in three games that were one-run affairs in the seventh inning, with the final two coming down to the wire on national television.It’s unusual for an interleague series to feel the way the Orioles’ did this weekend in Atlanta. But after a stretch of games against largely cellar-dwellers, combined with the yearning from the fan base to be thought of as a contender, the three games against the Braves offered an early taste for what the rest of the season could look like for the Orioles, whose remaining schedule is among the toughest in the major leagues.Buckle up. If this weekend was any indication, there are a lot more games like those on the way.“There’s no breaks,” manager Brandon Hyde said about his club’s upcoming sc...

State lawmakers to debate new safety watchdog for MBTA

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

Moving safety oversight of the MBTA out of the Department of Public Utilities should be an immediate priority, says one Massachusetts lawmaker, who is pushing to create an independent commission that would take over this watchdog role.A bill establishing this new agency, filed by state Sen. Michael Barrett, will be considered at a Monday Joint Committee on Transportation hearing, the first step in what he hopes will be a successful legislative push.“I don’t think the federal government will permit us to rest with the status quo,” Barrett said. “We’ve got to do something. The T is not getting any safer. I think it’s high time we acted.”The Federal Transit Administration issued a scathing critique of DPU’s hands-off approach to transportation safety oversight and low staffing levels in that division, in the August 2022 report that followed its months-long investigation of the MBTA’s subway system.Barrett said his proposed legislation is responsive to that criticism, particularly the c...

US to propose new rules for airline cancellations, delays

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:48:20 GMT

The Biden administration is working on new regulations that would require airlines to compensate passengers and cover their meals and hotel rooms if they are stranded for reasons within the airline’s control.The White House said President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg would announce the start of the rulemaking process Monday.The rulemaking pledge continues a push by the Democratic administration to require airlines to improve customer service, and it comes just weeks before the start of the peak summer travel season. The aim of the rules would be, for the first time, to require airlines to pay compensation beyond a ticket refund and to cover expenses that consumers incur, including rebooking on another flight, if the airline causes a cancellation or significant delay.“When an airline causes a flight cancellation or delay, passengers should not foot the bill,” Buttigieg said in a statement. Currently, when an airline cancels a flight for any reason, cons...