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Long Shot World Series: Diamondbacks vs Rangers is a Fall Classic few saw coming

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

Tell the truth: How many people picked Arizona and Texas to meet in the World Series?A Rangers-Diamondbacks matchup had 1,750 to 1 odds when wagering opened last fall.But in an era when 12 teams make the playoffs, sustained excellence over the six-month regular season has become a boarding pass, not the journey, leading to a long shot Series that opens Friday night at Globe Life Field.“Once you get into the big dance, anything can happen,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said before Tuesday night’s 4-2 win at Philadelphia advanced Arizona to its first World Series since 2001. “Throw it all out the window. The teams that get in deserve to be in.”All the glamour teams are watching at home: the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves stumbled in the Division Series, defending champion Houston was ousted by Texas, and the New York Yankees didn’t even make it to the postseason.Instead, Major League Baseball has its third all-wild card meeting, a Grand Canyon vs. Lone Star finale ...

5 claves de por qué Massa es el más votado en Argentina, pese a estar al mando de una economía en crisis

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

(CNN Español) — Por si el sorpresivo resultado de las elecciones primarias en Argentina ―que catapultaron al líder de La Libertad Avanza, Javier Milei, a la cabecera del podio de los más votados― fuera poco, las generales del pasado domingo consolidaron la volatilidad de un proceso electoral que nadie está pudiendo anticipar. Ante esta nueva foto que tiene la tinta todavía fresca se impone una pregunta: ¿Cómo logra Sergio Massa, un ministro de Economía con una inflación al alza y un dólar que no encuentra techo, conseguir casi un 50% más de adhesiones durante 10 semanas en las que solo se acrecentó el problema?Spoiler alert: la respuesta a la pregunta pareciera ser que esta vez ―parafraseando una conocida anécdota de la política estadounidense― no “es la economía, estúpido”.El día cierra con Sergio Massa sonriente en el escenario, avivado por seguidores y militantes peronistas al ritmo de la consigna “Massa presidente”. Consiguió para su coalición casi tres millones de v...

Stock market today: Wall Street gets back to falling, on track for 8th drop in the last 10 days

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street is slipping Wednesday following a mixed set of profit reports from two of its most influential Big Tech companies.The S&P 500 was 0.7% lower in early trading, coming off its first gain in the last six days. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 51 points, or 0.2%, as of 9:40 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 1.2% lower.Microsoft jumped 4.1% after reporting stronger profit and revenue for the summer than analysts expected. Its movements carry extra weight on the market because it’s the second-largest company by market value.But Alphabet was tugging the market lower even though the parent company of Google and YouTube also reported stronger profit than expected. Its stock fell 9.3% on worries about a slowdown in growth for its cloud-computing business.Alphabet is another one of Wall Street’s biggest companies and, like Microsoft, a member of the “Magnificent Seven” group of Big Tech stocks that’s accounted for a disproportionate amount o...

Acting police chief’s nomination unanimously approved by DC Council’s public safety committee

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

Acting police Chief Pamela Smith’s nomination to become the permanent leader of the District’s police force has been approved by a key D.C. Council committee. The nomination now heads for a final vote by the entire council next month.The Committee on Judiciary & Public Safety on Tuesday unanimously voted to approve Smith’s nomination for the position.Before calling the committee to a vote, Ward 2 Council Member Brooke Pinto reflected on how the police department is at a “turning point,” and comes at a “critical time for the department and the District.“As we face a significant increase in both violent crime and property crime and MPD simultaneously suffers a hiring and retention crisis. Our communities are crying out for help, for more police, more security, more opportunities and more accountability.”Referring to the fact that the District surpassed 200 homicides in 2023 last month, Pinto said “the new chief must be ready to...

German authorities say there’s no hope for 4 missing sailors after North Sea ship collision

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities on Wednesday broke off their search for four crew members missing since their British-flagged cargo ship sank a day earlier following a collision with a larger vessel in the North Sea. A senior official said there was no longer any hope for them.The Verity, which had seven people on board and was en route from Bremen, Germany, to the English port of Immingham, sank shortly after the collision a little before 5 a.m. Tuesday. Two sailors were rescued and the body of another was recovered.Rescue ships and aircraft participating in the search were unable to locate the four missing crew members on Tuesday, and divers sent down to the wreck of the Verity to check for any signs of life did not find anything. Officials said that the water temperature at the time of the collision was about 12 degrees Celsius (54 degrees Fahrenheit), which experience shows most people can survive for about 20 hours.Germany’s Central Command for Maritime Emergencies said the en...

AAC votes to add Army in 2024 for football, AP sources say. Army-Navy to remain nonconference game

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

The American Athletic Conference voted unanimously to add Army as a football-only member starting in 2024, two people with direct knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because a formal announcement was still in the works. AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco was planning to attend a news conference at West Point, New York, with school officials later Wednesday.Army will replace SMU, which is moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference, to keep the American a 14-team football league. The move puts Army and Navy football in the same conference, but their traditional, end-of-the-season, standalone matchup will remain a nonconference game so it can be played after conference championships.Army mostly competes in the Patriot League, but it has been an independent in football for most of the program’s existence. The Black Knights competed in Conference USA from 1998-2004 and never won more than three football games ...

Did you know a Denver woman named the Ouija board?

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The "Mother of the Ouija board," a woman who named and helped patent the talking board, is still in Denver today.The original Ouija boards, which were called "talking boards," started in the mid-1800s. They became increasingly popular during the Spiritualism movement in the late 1800s after the Civil War, according to Molly Bown House Museum director Andrea Malcomb. People used the boards as a way to communicate with those who had passed on. While talking boards have existed for over 100 years, the boards became commercialized once Helen Peters Nosworthy discovered the new name. Photos: Behind the scenes of ‘Denver’s oldest haunted house’ Nosworthy's story is told by the Talking Board Historical Society. It was referred to as a talking board until Nosworthy, said to be a medium, patented the new name in 1890.As the legend goes, Nosworthy asked the board what it would like to be called, to which it responded "O-U-I-J-A." After asking the board what the name meant, i...

Mike Johnson is the latest GOP nominee for House speaker as Republicans move to yet another vote

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their latest nominee for House speaker desperate to unite their fractious majority and end the chaos, just hours after an earlier pick abruptly withdrew in the face of opposition from Donald Trump.Johnson of Louisiana, a lower-ranked member of the House GOP leadership team, becomes the fourth Republican nominee in what has become an almost absurd cycle of political infighting since Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as GOP factions jockey for power.When the House convenes at noon Wednesday ahead of a floor vote, Johnson, who won the majority behind closed doors, will need almost all Republicans in the public roll call to win the gavel.“Mike! Mike! Mike!” lawmakers chanted at a press conference late Tuesday night, surrounding Johnson and posing for selfies in a show of support.Three weeks on, the Republicans have been frittering away their majority status — a maddening embarrassment to some, democracy in action to others, but not at...

Moped driver left injured after hit-and-run in Tampa speaks out

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

A man is on the road to recovery after becoming the victim of hit and run horror. He said he’s lucky to be alive after being dragged for hundreds of feet and was then left for dead.Jonny Fitzcharles didn’t need to see the video to know how close he was to losing his life earlier this month.“It’s been a weird week of saying the word lucky, like that is not a word I expected to say, but I really am, all things considered,” Fitzcharles said.Somehow, 12 days later, he’s able to sit and talk about the hit-and run crash that nearly killed him.“When it happened, it was so fast. I don’t remember being under the car,” he said.Fitzcharles had only owned his moped for less than a month and was riding it near an intersection in Tampa.“I remember she was just locked straight on and she just kept going,” he said.When the driver blew through a stop sign, she slammed into him, practically running him over. The driver was seen getting...

Video shows man leaping into EPCOT waters at Disney World

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:46:06 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (WSVN) — Video footage emerged from Walt Disney World after a guest took a leap into the waters at EPCOT on Monday. Reports suggest that the individual agreed to jump for a hefty $6,000 bet, despite repeated warnings of potential expulsion from the park. “You’re gonna get kicked out of Disney, mister!” one person is heard on cellphone video. After he pulled himself out of the water, the jumper reunited with friends, only to be confronted by the park’s security. According to Walt Disney World’s website, engaging in any “unsafe act” is prohibited at the parks. “We reserve the right to prohibit the use or storage of any other item not listed above that we determine may be harmful or disruptive, in our sole and absolute discretion,” stated Disney’s park rules website.It is unclear if the man is going to be prohibited from entering the theme park again.