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Hitting coach Tim Hyers left the Red Sox for the opportunity to develop another championship from the ground up. – The Boston Globe
14May By George LaningtonNo Comments
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Hitting coach Tim Hyers left the Red Sox for the opportunity to develop another championship from the ground up. – The Boston Globe

“They’ve never won a World Series here. We have a beautiful new ballpark and it’s the Taj Mahal in terms of facilities,” Hyers said Friday before the Rangers played the Red Sox. “It’s new scenery and a new challenge. That appealed to me.“People don’t understand that part and I get it. How can you walk away from Boston, it’s the place to be? They’re right, it is. But also, it was a family decision.”Get 108 StitchesAn email newsletter about everything baseball from the Globe's Red Sox reporters, in your inbox on weekdays during the season.Hyers lives in Georgia. His wife, Kristin, works for the Georgia Transmission Corporation and her business travel takes her around the Southeast. They are able to spend more time together with Tim working primarily in Texas.With the youngest of their thr...
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Guide and advice to buy a washing machine with dryer function
14May By George LaningtonNo Comments
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Guide and advice to buy a washing machine with dryer function

When we have to change the washing machine or buy a new one, many of us think of buying a device that washes and dries, but many times we do not do it due to ignorance. Well, we are going to try to get you out of your doubts and thus know everything you need to buy a good washing machine with a drying function. It would not be a bad choice to have each device separately, that is, the washer and dryer next to each other or stacked, but not everyone has that capacity, or money, or space and that is why you have to look a single product that serves both. We must be clear that washing machines with a drying function are usually a little larger than normal washing machines, due to their double equipment. It is something to take into account when placing it in the place whe...
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FA Cup final: Tuchel’s answer to Alexander-Arnold and Robertson will have to wait until next season
14May By George LaningtonNo Comments
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FA Cup final: Tuchel’s answer to Alexander-Arnold and Robertson will have to wait until next season

Even if Chelsea manage to end Liverpool's quadruple ambitions for good in Saturday's FA Cup final — or maybe, especially if they do —there might be an underlying sense of disappointment over how this season has played put at Stamford Bridge; a yearning for what might have been. The Blues have all but secured Champions League football for next season, but the fact they headed into the weekend without it mathematically guaranteed underlines how far they have fallen from the Premier League title race. There are numerous reasons for Manchester City and Liverpool — 19 and 16 points ahead of Thomas Tuchel's side, respectively —tearing off into the distance. From Romelu Lukaku's patchy first season back in England to the turbulence of Roman Abramovich's sale of the club, Chelsea have had ple...
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Jen Psaki exits the White House. Pete Doocy calls it ‘end of an era’
14May By George LaningtonNo Comments
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Jen Psaki exits the White House. Pete Doocy calls it ‘end of an era’

Jen Psaki held her last press conference as White House press secretary on Friday, and it was “the end of an era.”That quote doesn't come from someone in President Joe Biden's administration, or an MSNBC reporter (Psaki's next gig is reportedly working for the liberal-leaning network). Instead, it comes from Peter Doocy of Fox News, her frequent inquisitor and her sparring partner. Doocy made the comment on “Fox & Friends,” hosted by (among others) his father Steve. I repeated it in a tweet after her last briefing.Doocy's admiration — he also said Psaki made him a better reporter, despite their confrontations — points toward something only the most partisan person would disagree with: Psaki was good at her job.Psaki's job was to sell the Biden administration. And to show up.In compar...
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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 80 of the invasion | Russia

Ukraine has “likely won the battle of Kharkiv”, the country's second largest city, the Institute for the Study of War has said in its latest assessment of the conflict. “Ukrainian forces prevented Russian troops from encircling, let alone seizing Kharkiv, and then expelled them from around the city, as they did to Russian forces attempting to seize Kyiv,” the US-based thinktank said. Ukrainians have also repelled multiple attempts by the Russians to cross a strategically significant river in the Donbas, inflicting heavy losses in the process, according to local officials and British intelligence. British defense intelligence said Russia had lost “significant armored manoeuvre elements” from a battalion tactical group – a formation with about 800 personnel at full strength – from ...
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Dusty Baker returns to Nationals Park with Astros
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Dusty Baker returns to Nationals Park with Astros

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Dallas Cops Hunt for Gunman Targeting Asian Businesses
14May By George LaningtonNo Comments
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Dallas Cops Hunt for Gunman Targeting Asian Businesses

A series of recent shootings at Asian-owned businesses in Texas has sparked a police manhunt for a gunman who authorities believe is intent on carrying out anti-Asian violence. Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia announced the alarming news at a Friday press conference, where he revealed that investigators now believe three recent shootings are connected—and motivated by bigotry.“On Wednesday, I had given you an update on this case, and at that time in the investigation, we did not have any indication that this crime was hate-motivated,” Garcia said. "As of this afternoon, that has changed due to the continued investigation."An unidentified man dressed in black walked into the Hair World Salon in Dallas' Koreatown neighborhood on Wednesday afternoon and shot two employees and a customer....
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GOP laughs off Biden’s ‘ultra-MAGA’ attack, calling it ‘hilarious’
14May By George LaningtonNo Comments
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GOP laughs off Biden’s ‘ultra-MAGA’ attack, calling it ‘hilarious’

“Ultra MAGA.” “MAGA King.” President Joe Biden, who dodged the words “Donald Trump” for more than a year, has suddenly integrated the Trump political movement into his daily lexicon. While the White House is employing the tactic purposefully, it doesn't mean it's about to engage in culture wars. Instead, Biden is attempting what on his face seems unthinkable: Knock the GOP on his heels by tying its message to a policy platform issued by a relatively obscure Florida senator, Rick Scott. They're doing it with a term Republicans embrace – they're already selling it on merchandise and fundraising off it – with the GOP already predicting it'll backfire, and Scott's political operation saying it couldn't be happier. “It's hilarious. They're highlighting their single biggest vulnerability...
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The price of more than half of the products we consume is already rising above 4% year-on-year
14May By George LaningtonNo Comments
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The price of more than half of the products we consume is already rising above 4% year-on-year

This is how the INE measures the IPC: 200 officials visit the same stores throughout Spain every month The inflation has moderated in Spain in April compared to March, when registering the CPI an increase of 8.3%compared to 9.8% reached the previous month, as confirmed this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).This is the largest drop recorded in a single month in the last 35 years and has been marked by the basic effect -it is already compared to April of last year in which prices began to rise a little more (2.2%)-, due to the lower increase in energy prices and due to the impact of bonus of 20 cents per liter of fuel that the Government approved and entered into force on April 1, and that has served to contain the rises in gasoline and diesel. In fact, in a scenari...
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The Japanese hunger striker demanding an end to US bases in Okinawa | Japanese
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The Japanese hunger striker demanding an end to US bases in Okinawa | Japanese

ANDEarlier this week, Jinshiro Motoyama posted a banner outside the office of Japan's prime minister, sat on a folding chair, and stopped eating. It was a dramatic gesture, but the 30-year-old activist believes desperate measures are needed to end the long US military presence in his birthplace, Okinawa.Located roughly 1,000 miles south of Tokyo in the East China Sea, Okinawa is a speck in the ocean that comprises 0.6% of Japan's total land area but hosts about 70% of the US's military bases in Japan and more than half of its 47,000 troops.As the island, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific war, prepares on Sunday to mark 50 years since it was returned to Japanese sovereignty from postwar US control, Motoyama is in no mood to celebrate.“The Japanese government wants...
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