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Santander hits 2 of Orioles’ 6 homers as Baltimore routs Minnesota 15-2

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Anthony Santander hit two of Baltimore’s six homers and the Orioles completed a sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a 15-2 victory on Sunday.Aaron Hicks added a three-run homer against his former team in the Orioles’ seven-run fifth. Austin Hays, Ramón Urías and Adley Rutschman also went deep for Baltimore.Baltimore closed the first half of the season on a five-game winning streak after losing four straight.“We’ve been playing these last five games extremely well,” Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said. “Our starting pitching has been the key. We showed our power today. I feel like we were in a power drought a little bit there for a little while, but these guys showed you how much power they have.”After scoring seven runs in the fifth, the Orioles’ offense continued to roll in the sixth with six more runs. Rutschman — who will compete in the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday in Seattle — launched a career-long, 461-foot two-run drive in the sixth off r...

Griner has 25th dunk of career as Phoenix holds on to beat Los Angeles

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

PHOENIX (AP) — Brittney Griner scored 29 points, including her 25th dunk as a professional, and the Phoenix Mercury held on for a 78-72 win over the Los Angeles Sparks in a matchup between two struggling teams on Sunday.Diana Taurasi added 12 of her 22 in the fourth quarter to put her less than 100 points from 10,000 in her career. Moriah Jefferson scored 11 for the Mercury (4-14), who had lost three straight and nine of 10 for the worst record in the WNBA. Griner, who matched her season high for points, also had 11 rebounds.Nneka Ogwumike had 20 points and 14 boards to lead the short-handed Sparks (7-12), who have lost five straight. Jordin Canada scored 16 points, Azura Stevens added 13 and Jasmine Thomas 10.The Sparks were without five players and lost starter Dearica Hamby with a sprained ankle midway through the first half.Griner had 16 points in the first half as the Mercury took a 42-36 lead. Griner was 7-of-11 shooting, including a dunk early in the second quarter. It was he...

Kelsey Plum scores 40 point to help Aces roll to 113-89 win over Lynx

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kelsey Plum scored a career-high 40 points on 14-of-18 shooting and the Las Vegas Aces routed the Minnesota Lynx for the third time this season, rolling 113-89 on Sunday night.The Aces, who beat Minnesota by 21 and 31 earlier this season, clinched the Western Conference berth in the Commissioner’s Cup. Las Vegas (17-2), which passed its previous season high of 105 points on Plum’s sixth 3-pointer with 3:30 to play, is averaging more than 92 points a game, a point behind the WNBA record.Las Vegas will face either Connecticut or New York in the Commissioner’s Cup title game.Jackie Young hit five 3-pointers and scored 17 points for Las Vegas with A’Ja Wilson adding 15 with 10 rebounds and Chelsea Gray had 14 with 10 assists.Las Vegas made 17 3-pointers and finished 43-72 (59.7%) overall. The Aces were without All-Star Candace Parker, who sat out with an ankle injury.Napheesa Collier scored 18 points to lead the Lynx (9-10), who had their five-...

Denver renter priced out of his 20-year home amid rising rent

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- The Mile High City remains one of the most expensive places to rent a home in Colorado.Those on a fixed-income and single-person households are more likely to feel the effects of sudden rent hikes. Report: Denver among most expensive rental markets in Colorado Because of this, at age 75 artist Jimi Bernath said he must leave his home of more than two decades.“I have until a week from tomorrow to vacate,” Bernath said, explaining that the property has been sold.“I’ve cooked hundreds, if not thousands of meals on this stove in the last 20 years. I don’t know what they’ll do with it, but I hope somebody gets as much use out of it as I have” he said.Bernath, who survives on social security payments, had been charged $450 each month to live in a cottage on the property. He is now experiencing a form of sticker shock as he searches for a new rental home.“Over a thousand for just a studio, I see stuff on Craigslist every day, I see stuff for 300, then I see it was 300 d...

1 hospitalized after shooting in Hollywood neighborhood; search underway for gunman

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

Police are investigating a shooting in a Hollywood neighborhood that sent one person to the hospital and has triggered a search for the gunman responsible.Hollywood Police officers set up a perimeter in the area of Fillmore Street, near North 26th Avenue, Sunday afternoon.According to investigators, they received a 911 call about a possible shooting in the area at around 2:55 p.m.Responding officers arrived at the scene to find the victim suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.Detectives said an altercation between two people led to the gunfire. They are investigating the incident as a possible attempted homicide.The injured victim was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, where he is listed in critical condition.Back at the scene, cameras captured a police helicopter flying over the neighborhood.Detectives have not provided any details about a potential suspect, as they attempt to determine the circumstances that led up to the shooting.If you have any information on this shooting or...

Dog found starving, dog found stabbed cling to life at SW Miami-Dade animal hospital as rescuers demand justice

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

Two dogs are being cared for at a South Florida animal hospital days after one of them was found starving and the other was found with stab wounds, triggering calls for justice for the people behind these acts of animal cruelty and neglect.Video showed one of the dogs, named Jake, being treated at Knowles Snapper Creek Animal Hospital in Southwest Miami-Dade, as a veterinarian described how they are nursing him back to life.“We were administering food through this port,” said the veterinarian.Cindy Mucciaccio and Cheryl Marrone with iHeart Animal Rescue spoke to 7News about both canines on Sunday.“We’ve been getting the most phone calls we’ve ever had in the last month,” said Mucciaccio.Mucciaccio said Jake was found in Miami abused and deserted, left to starve.“He’s probably the worst case I’ve ever seen. He doesn’t have a piece of meat on him,” she said, “and he is holding on to life, you know, kidney and live...

Ukraine has set the standard on software power

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

General (retd.) John R. Allen is a member of the GLOBSEC International Advisory Council and a former commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces — Afghanistan. Wendy R. Anderson is senior vice president of federal, national security at Palantir Technologies and former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.The Wagner mercenary Group’s direct challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s authority clearly demonstrated that Russia is not only a hostile state but an unstable one. And it is under this shadow of uncertainty hanging over the Putin regime’s long-term stability — as well as Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine — that the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius needs to reassess the transatlantic alliance’s defense needs.Coming out of the summit, we believe NATO members should include an additional, explicit pledge as part of their commitments to spend more on defense — and that is to invest in software and data-driven platforms as a core capability....

Pedro Sánchez, the high-stakes gambler, seeks to defy the odds again

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

MADRID — Spain’s right-wing opposition has invented a one-word slogan that supposedly represents everything that is wrong with Pedro Sánchez and his coalition government: Sanchismo.The newspaper La Razón defined it as “a dictatorial regime … of extremism and populism,” while Federico Jiménez Losantos, a well-known right-wing radio presenter, described Sánchez as “a coup monger” and “a criminal.”Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the conservative Popular Party (PP), has made it his main priority to “roll back Sanchismo” if he becomes prime minister after the July 23 general election. Polls suggest that could well happen, with Sánchez trailing his conservative rival.“Sanchismo is the right’s traditional strategy when it’s in opposition,” Sánchez has said in response to such barbs. He added that what he really represents is “Socialism, the transformative force which this country has been lucky enough to have for the last 40 years of democracy.”Sánchez refused a request for an interview fo...

Risk of nuclear escalation is still too large for comfort

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Neither side had wanted it to happen.In October 1962, the United States and Russia were on the brink of nuclear Armageddon amid the Cuban missile crisis — a potentially catastrophic 13-day standoff 144 kilometers from the shoreline of Florida.Neither side had planned for confrontation. The dirty little secret is that for all the talk of stratagems, governments and leaders are all too often poor real-world chess players. All too often their decisions are based on faulty or insufficient information and prejudicial conjecture that can quickly fall apart — or, in the words of German Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke, “no plan survives contact with the enemy.” And all too often leaders must make things up as they go along — as seems to have happened 61 years ago.Similarly, some seasoned observers of today’s Russian leader argue that President Vladimir Putin never had much of a plan beyond seizing Kyiv when launching his invasion of ...

Senior MP Julian Knight accused of sexually harassing young women

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:25:18 GMT

LONDON — Three women have made separate accusations that a prominent MP twenty years their senior used his position to subject them to sexual harassment.The women claimed that Julian Knight — a former Tory MP who now sits as an independent — approached them in near-identical circumstances: inviting them to discuss job opportunities before touching them inappropriately, sharing intimate details of his personal life, and bombarding them with messages. When asked about the claims, Knight responded: “None of these allegations has any basis whatsoever in truth.”“They have been repeatedly made to various media over several years as part of a concerted smear campaign against me which is now under appropriate investigation,” he added in a statement. “To publish them would be wrong, misleading and defamatory.”Knight, a former select committee chair, was suspended from the Conservative Party last year after a complaint was made about him to the Metropolitan Police. Essex ...