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Progressive Democrats ask Biden to lift sanctions against Venezuela
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Progressive Democrats ask Biden to lift sanctions against Venezuela

AFP Updated:05/14/2022 01:58 a.m. Save Related newsEighteen legislators from the left wing of the United States Democratic Party ask President Joe Biden to lift the sanctions against Venezuela and continue dialogue with the government of Nicolás Maduro, while an influential Republican senator urges the president not to change the policy towards Caracas.In two missives this week, 18 congressmen led by Raúl Grijalva and Jesús 'Chuy' García, and the Republican senator from Florida Marco Rubio, made opposition to the Democratic tenant of the White House.In a letter dated May 10, progressive Democrats assert that punitive measures against Venezuela by the previous Republican administration of donald trump they only served to "exacerbate" the human...
Rockies’ Kris Bryant progressing toward return from back issue
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Rockies’ Kris Bryant progressing toward return from back issue

Kris Bryant is trending in a positive direction toward a future return to the Rockies lineup. The injured Colorado left fielder, after receiving a lower-back cortisone shot on Monday, joined teammates in pregame warmups on Friday with the Kansas City Royals visiting Coors Field. That included a few swings in the batting cage, according to manager Bud Black, after Bryant refrained from taking cuts the last two weeks. “He threw today, he ran around and he hit in the cage. No problems,” manager Bud Black said. “So, that’s a good sign. He’ll do that again tomorrow with a little bit more activity. Increase the intensity. Probably increase the number of swings as well. Probably go out and play some defense. … Probably do a little bit of that on Sunday morning as well. Then we’ll assess where ...
Stars Stay Alive, Force Game 7 With Home Win Over Calgary – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
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Stars Stay Alive, Force Game 7 With Home Win Over Calgary – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

Miro Heiskanen scored the go-ahead goal late in the second period for the Dallas Stars, who recovered after blowing an early two-goal lead and beat the Calgary Flames 4-2 on Friday night to force a deciding Game 7 in their first-round Western Conference series. The first goal in these playoffs for Heiskanen came on a 40-foot shot with a bunch of traffic in front of Flames goalie Jacob Markstrom. That came with 2:28 left in the second period, in which both teams scored twice. The series wraps up Sunday night in Calgary, where the Flames last hosted a Game 7 in 2006 and lost their first-round series to Anaheim. This is the third consecutive playoffs that the Stars will play a Game 7 — they beat Colorado in the second round in the NHL bubble in Canada two seasons ago, ...
Salesforce dumped Snowflake shares in Q1 2022 market plunge
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Salesforce dumped Snowflake shares in Q1 2022 market plunge

Marc Benioff, chairman and co-chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., speaks at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Nov. 19, 2019. Salesforce's annual software conference, where it introduces new products and discusses its commitment to social causes, was interrupted for the second year in a row by protests against the company's work with the US government.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSalesforce has sold out of the last of its shares in data-analytics software maker Snowflake, according to a regulatory filing on Friday.Salesforce, which makes investments through its Salesforce Ventures unit, still owns a stake in five public companies, including Robinhood and Monday.com, the filing shows. The company had previously unloaded 95% of its Snowflake shares...
Detroit Tigers closer Gregory Soto not fazed by recent struggles
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Detroit Tigers closer Gregory Soto not fazed by recent struggles

Gregory Soto hasn't pitched well in his past two outings.The Detroit Tigers' left-handed closer allowed a combined three runs on three hits and three walks with one strikeout against the Houston Astros on May 5 and the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.Soto, a 2021 All-Star, isn't concerned."It's just a baseball thing," Soto said Friday. "Those outings are supposed to come, either at the beginning, the middle or the end of the season, but they're going to come. And now, they're happening."WHAT HAPPENED: Tigers dig deeper into hole with every loss. Here's how things went south so quicklyJeff Seidel: Tigers consistently blow chance after chance. But they could learn from this rookieManager AJ Hinch has encouraged focusing on one game at a time since the Tigers hired him in October 2020. H...
The ‘gudari’ who killed the boy Fabio
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The ‘gudari’ who killed the boy Fabio

Paul MunozFOLLOW, CONTINUE Updated:05/14/2022 01:02h Save RELATED NEWSJuuan Carlos Iglesias Chouzas, 'Gaddafi', is not just another ETA member; he is not even the one who has committed the most murders. But he is the only one who put a sticky bomb in the car of the father of two two-year-old twins, just for being a civil guard. He went there on November 7, 1991 and he knew that the children got into that vehicle every day, because he carried out the necessary surveillance so as not to be discovered and to be able to 'hunt' the victims. The 'gudari' did not shake his pulse. This individual is now acquitted of a case by the National High Court in application of the Atristrain doctrine of the Strasbourg Court.But getting out of a process is ...
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Sneakerella’ on Disney+, A Gender-Swapped Take On ‘Cinderella’
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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Sneakerella’ on Disney+, A Gender-Swapped Take On ‘Cinderella’

Disney Channel Original Movies had a reputation for leaning into off-the-wall premises in a fun and grounded way (remember how Smart House was literally about a kid who programs his house to be a motherly figure?). Disney+ is picking up the threads of that legacy and creating films for a new generation, and Sneakerella is one of the first takes — even if it’s loosely based on the Disney property Cinderella. Does it live up to the standards set by its predecessors? SNEAKERELLA: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? The Gist: A modern take on Cinderella, Sneakerella follows shoe stockroom boy El whose passion is designing sneakers. His stepfather and stepbrothers don’t take the time to understand his dreams and are instead focused on closing El’s late mother’s sneaker shop and moving back to the N...
Who is Kathy Barnette?  Senate candidate running in Pennsylvania
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Who is Kathy Barnette? Senate candidate running in Pennsylvania

The GOP primary race for Senate in Pennsylvania appeared to come down to two candidates: the Donald Trump-endorsed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz and millionaire former hedge fund manager Dave McCormick supported by top Republicans. But in a new poll, Kathy Barnette, a political commentator, appears to have made it a three-way race.Barnette's late surge has alarmed some prominent conservatives, including Trump, who warned that Barnette could “never” win in a general election and raised questions about her past.the latest RealClearPolitics average chicken Barnette showed less than three points behind Oz, and less than one point ahead of McCormick.More coverage:Pennsylvania's candidate-packed, toss-up, celebrity-laden Senate race could decide control of CongressOn Politics newsletter:Keep ...
“We are at a very high risk of stagflation”
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“We are at a very high risk of stagflation”

Madrid Updated:05/14/2022 02:43 a.m. Save Related newsDaniel Lacalle (Madrid, 1967), Chief Economist at Tressis and Professor of Global Economy at the IE Business School and the IEB (Institute of Stock Market Studies), happens to be one of the best known in his discipline and the author of books such as 'We the markets'. recently published 'Grow your money', where he collects his experiences in investment funds and hedge funds in the United States, in addition to giving his point of view on burning issues such as the commodity market, cryptocurrencies and inflation. We talked about all these issues with this staunch defender of the market economy:-How do you see the immediate future of the Spanish economy? -People believe that there is goin...
Investors could get a reprieve from vicious stock sell-off in week ahead
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Investors could get a reprieve from vicious stock sell-off in week ahead

Investors could get a reprieve in the week ahead from the vicious selling cycle that has gripped the stock market since late March.Stocks bounced off of Thursday's washout lows and were set to exit the week with reduced losses after Friday's rally. Buyers on Friday hunted for bargains among small caps, biotechnology names, the Arkk Innovation ETF and other growth names that were hardest hit.The S&P 500 jumped back above the key 4,000 level Friday, after touching 3,858 on Thursday — near the 3,800 to 3,850 area that chart analysts have been targeting for a bottom. But while it seems like the market could bounce temporarily, market technicians say that zone will likely be tested again later on."Does that mean the lows of the year are in? Probably not, but it could create an oversold bou...