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From Alex Remington at The Hardball Times on May 31, 2018:

Kyle Lohse recently announced his retirement, almost exactly twelve years after the time he was demoted in favor of Boof Bonser, and that’s how I found out that he was still in professional baseball.

Lohse had a remarkably long career, especially considering all of his memorable ups and downs. He pitched for six teams and posted a full-season ERA over 5.00 for three of them. For his final team, the Texas Rangers, he gave... Читать дальше...

President Donald Trump said in remarks at the White House on Friday that the Singapore summit with North Korean President Kim Jong Un will proceed as initially planned. Photo: Associated Press

Barcelona president is mum on transfer window but expects his club to be active

Nigeria's World Cup football kit has sold out, with three million shirts pre-ordered online.

Yikes! Here is tonight's Red Sox line-up: Andrew Benintendi, LF; Xander Bogaerts, SS; Mitch Moreland, 1B; J.D. Martinez, RF; Rafael Devers, 3B; Eduardo Nunez, DH; Brock Holt, 2B; Sandy Leon, C; Jackie Bradley Jr., CF. On the mound tonight is Chris Sale.

Dundalk made it six wins on the bounce in the league with a 5-2 win over Shamrock Rovers at Tallaght Stadium on Friday evening. Daniel Carr had put Rovers in front in the fourth minute however Dundalk came roaring back with goals from Patrick Hoban in the first half and in the second from Daniel...

WASHINGTON (AP) — If a trade war is coming, the cheesemakers of Wisconsin are standing in the line of fire. So are the farmers of the Great Plains and the distillers of Kentucky. And the employees of iconic American brands like Harley Davidson and Levi Strauss. The likelihood of a trade conflagration leapt closer to reality this week after the United States imposed tariff on steel and aluminum imports from Canada, Mexico and the European Union. Infuriated, the jilted U.S. allies vowed to retaliate with tariffs of their own. Читать дальше...

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Kim Kardashian met with President Donald Trump this week to ask for a pardon of a grandmother serving a life sentence for a nonviolent crime. Here's a look at five other inmates in a similar position.

Kim Kardashian met with President Donald Trump this week to ask for a pardon of a grandmother serving life for a nonviolent crime. A look at five other inmates like Alice Marie Johnson.

Alexander could become the first player taken in the supplemental draft since 2015.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Republicans are now the third largest bloc of voters in California. New data released by the secretary of state Friday shows no party preference voters comprise 25.5 percent of registered voters while Republicans comprise 25.1 percent. Democrats remain the largest group at more than 44 percent. More than 19 million Californians are registered to vote ahead of the state's Tuesday primary. That's more than three-quarters of the eligible voter population. Secretary of State... Читать дальше...

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - A racehorse trainer from Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico and his son were killed when the single-engine airplane they were flying crashed shortly after takeoff in Midland.

It was a Mexican food lover's dream: an ocean of tortilla chips. A tractor-trailer fell off Interstate 5 onto 96th Street Southwest in Lakewood Thursday evening when the driver apparently … Click to Continue »

It’s hardly the man in full, but the New York Public Library’s new Tom Wolfe exhibit has plenty of the right stuff. On the heels of that literary lion’s death last month at 88, NYPL curator Thomas Lannon went through the more than 100 boxes of Wolfe’s papers, which the library acquired in 2013. From...

Every school day, Zion Kelly passes by the locker once used by his slain twin brother, Zaire, who was shot in the head during an attempted robbery in their Washington, D.C. neighborhood last September. Zaire is one of more than 170,000 youths between the ages of 5 and 24 that have been killed by gun...

Nearly half of Americans believe the country's morals are "poor" and more than three-quarters believe they're getting worse, a Gallup poll indicates.

Roberto Mancini believes Italy “can be at France’s level, or close to it, in a year” after their 3-1 friendly defeat. “We’re on the right track.”

Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon says in a new interview that President Trump is "wrong" to suggest that he should have chosen someone other than Jeff Sessions as his attorney general, saying Sessions has done an "excellent"...

The international investigative team have failed to present conclusive evidence Russia was responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, according to a Malaysian minister Transport Minister Anthony Loke told Channel NewsAsia: “There is [...]