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☆ MLB roundup: Red Sox drop Phils for 8th straight win
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +12 min

Boston's Rob Refsnyder ripped a two-run double, Christian Arroyo had a two-run single and Reese McGuire added an RBI single for the Red Sox, who have scored 59 runs during their eight-game winning streak. After Willie Calhoun popped out with two runners on, Bader put the Yankees ahead with a two-run single to right field. He worked a perfect ninth inning, striking out two, to earn his first save. Alejandro Kirk added an RBI double and Daulton Varsho an RBI single for the Blue Jays, who entered the series with a five-game losing streak. Jack Suwinski homered and Connor Joe had an RBI single for the Pirates, who lost their sixth in a row.

☆ 'Show us your Regina': Canadian city pulls tourism campaign after facing backlash for sexualizing its name
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Canadian city Regina attempted to rebrand is tourism agency to "Experience Regina" in March. Slogans for the campaign included "Show us your Regina" and "The city that rhymes with fun." After debuting a rebrand from Tourism Regina to Experience Regina last month, the city's tourism organization pulled its new campaign amid public backlash to slogans some found offensive, Canadian news outlet CBC reported. "Show us your Regina" was featured on the Experience Regina website, but has since been removed, the Toronto Star reported. The announcement came after about a dozen protesters gathered inside Regina City Hall to call for Tourism Regina CEO Tim Reid and Mayor Sandra Masters to resign, Fox News reported.

☆ MLB roundup: Rays beat A's to stay undefeated
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Stroman has allowed two runs and 17 hits over 32 innings while winning each of his last five home starts. Ji Hwan Bae, Ke'Bryan Hayes and Connor Joe each had an RBI double, and Oneil Cruz and Jason Delay hit RBI singles for the Pirates. Pittsburgh starter Rich Hill allowed seven runs and eight hits in four innings. Alex Cobb (0-1) was the hard-luck loser for the Giants after holding the Royals to two runs on seven hits in seven innings. Kershaw (1-1) took the loss after allowing four runs on seven hits in six innings.

☆ Drake fans are the latest to hit Ticketmaster with a lawsuit following 'It's All A Blur' tour sale
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A Canadian law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster on behalf of anyone who bought "Official Platinum" seats. The firm alleges Ticketmaster "intentionally misleads consumers for their own financial gain," the Toronto Star reports. Ticketmaster recently garnered scrutiny from fans, musicians, and the US government. Legal firm LPC Avocat Inc. says a local man purchased two "Official Platinum" seats for the July 14 show in Montreal's Bell Centre for about $790 each. Some Swift fans also hit Ticketmaster with a class action lawsuit over the chaotic rollout that left some Swifties unable to buy tickets.

The state Supreme Court blocked the Republican map as unlawfully biased against Democratic voters. The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the dispute in December but has not issued a ruling in the high-profile case. The justices' order on Thursday cited a federal law giving it jurisdiction over final judgments issued by state supreme courts. Members of the state Supreme Court are elected by voters in North Carolina. In their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the North Carolina Republicans contended that the state court usurped the state General Assembly's authority under that provision to regulate federal elections.

Questions posed by the conservative justices during arguments on Tuesday over Biden's debt relief indicated that the conservative-majority court could strike down the plan as an unlawful overreach of executive power. "If Congress can't or won't step up, and the court won't let presidents do so, what are we left with? Its conservative justices already have invoked it to scuttle a pandemic-era residential eviction moratorium, a COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses and federal limits on carbon emissions from power plants. In some instances, like Biden's unilateral effort to extend the eviction moratorium, he took executive action following congressional inaction. "I'm concerned that we're going to have a problem in terms of the federal government's ability to operate," Jackson said.

☆ What's next for Goldman following deep cuts and organization overhaul
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

On tap we've got stories on JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon fielding questions about the bank's acquisition strategy, another bank plans to make cuts, and fast food options that won't completely crush your diet. On Wednesday the bank conducted a majority of its cuts, reducing its global workforce by about 6.5%. A few days later, on Friday, the bank reported losses of more than $3 billion since 2020 in the unit that houses the bank's consumer lending business. Meanwhile, some of the recently axed Goldman employees have been left in the dark on what's next for them, according to reporting from Hayley and Emmalyse Brownstein. Here are some fast food options that won't completely wreck your diet.

☆ The US Navy backed the hunt for Titanic in part because the explorer who found it argued it would 'drive the Soviets crazy,' book reveals
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-26 | by ( Ryan Pickrell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

The hunt for the Titanic was cover for a secret Navy mission to investigate two submarine wrecks. It was also part of a psychological warfare game the US was playing with the Soviets, Ballard revealed in a 2021 book. But his most recognizable discovery was the British passenger ship Titanic that sank in the North Atlantic on April 15, 1912, ending more than 1,500 lives. "I wanted to do a bang-up job for the Navy, but I was also constantly thinking about how to find Titanic," Ballard wrote. "There it was, one of 29 boilers that had created steam for Titanic's engines," Ballard wrote in his book.

☆ Is this the last Christmas for Sears?
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Easterling was at the Sears in her hometown of Jersey City, New Jersey, one of only 15 full-line Sears stores still open. The two started a catalog business selling watches and jewelry in 1888, incorporating under the Sears Roebuck name in 1893. The Sears catalog was the way many Americans first started to buy mass-produced goods. File photo/AP People shop inside a Sears store in Morton Grove, Illinois, in 1961. AP Soldiers guard a Sears store in Baltimore after riots broke out following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.

☆ Enerza is developing a robot named Boa that uses 5G to snake across power lines and report looming problems to utility companies
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Karen Fischer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Toronto startup Enerza built a robot named Boa that uses 5G to report problems to utility companies. "Remote areas suffer quite a bit from utility outages," said James Aein, CEO of Enerza, a 5G startup based in Toronto. Enerza is prototyping and patenting a robot named Boa that snakes across power lines to report back to utility companies on looming problems — and potentially prevent mass outages before they start. "That leaves a five kilometer radius of where the precise power line experiencing the problem could be." In some Canadian provinces, like Yukon, a major culprit behind power outages are iced power lines.

☆ Katie Ledecky obliterates short-course 1500m freestyle world record
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

And on Saturday the American obliterated yet another world record – this time in the 1500m short-course freestyle as she completed the race in 15:08.24, 10 seconds faster than anyone has done so before. “I felt good and very pleased with the outcome in both that and the 200m.”Ledecky distanced all her competitors to win and set a new world record. Steve Russell/Toronto Star/Getty ImagesLedecky’s time was so fast that she almost broke the 800m world record in the same event, with a split time of 8:00.58, a second off world-record pace. Capturing the 1500m short-course record marked the American’s first world record in a 25m pool as all her others have come in the long-course or in a 50m pool. “I didn’t have it as a set goal (to break the world record),” Ledecky said, according to FINA.

☆ Yankees clinch AL East but Judge's home run record chase stalls
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Steve Keating | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Sep 27, 2022; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Judge (99) celebrates in the dugout with team mates after scoring against the Toronto Blue Jays in the third inning at Rogers Centre. Mandatory Credit: Dan Hamilton-USA TODAY SportsTORONTO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The New York Yankees clinched top spot in the American League East with a 5-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday but Aaron Judge's pursuit of Roger Maris's home run record remained stalled on 60. But with eight games remaining in the regular season that pressure is being dialled up with each missed opportunity. The seven-game home run drought is the second longest of the season for Judge after a nine-game homerless stretch in mid-August. Tuesday's game marked just the second time in his career Judge had been issued four walks.

Potrivit regulamentului, cei care vor să participe la spectacole trebuie să dovedească că s-au imunizat cu unul dintre cele trei vaccinuri anti-Covid aprobate de FDA (Food and Drug Administration): Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna sau Johnson & Johnson. „Spectacolul trebuie să continue, dar dacă eşti vaccinat cu AstraZeneca nu eşti invitat”, a mai scris publicaţia. Nu va fi obligatorie purtarea măştii, iar producătorii show-ului au anunțat că în sala cu 1.710 locuri nu va fi impusă distanţarea fizică. „Springsteen on Broadway” este văzut ca un test pentru redeschiderea completă a Broadway-ului. Cele mai multe dintre spectacole vor reveni pe scenă începând cu luna septembrie.

Persons: Johnson, Bruce Sprinsteen, Springsteen Organizations: FDA, Johnson, Toronto Star Locations: Oxford, SUA, Canada, Toronto, USA, New York, New Jersey

☆ The 10 most bizarre weapons of World War II
▼ + stars: | 2015-07-22 | by ( Alex Lockie | Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

World War II brought many successful innovations in technology including weapons. From explosive rats to a 155-foot-long gun, here are some of the most bizarre weapons from WWII. During World War II, the world's major powers set their sights on advancing technology, medicine, and communications in order to be efficient and fearsome in battle. PanjandrumThe Panjandrum, a rocket-propelled explosive cart, was one of the more curious weapons to have come out of World War II. Explosive ratsDogs were not the only unfortunate animal victims of experimental war weapons.

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