The Brewers have activated left-hander DL Hall from the 60-day injured list, the team announced. In a pair of corresponding moves, the club placed left-hander Hoby Milner on the 15-day IL and transferred right-hander Enoli Paredes to the 60-day IL. Hall will start for Milwaukee on Sunday, as the Brewers attempt to complete a series sweep over the Reds (per Adam McCalvy of MLB.com).Hall, 25, came over to the Brewers this past offseason as part of the trade return for Corbin Burnes. While he primarily pitched out of the bullpen during brief stints with Baltimore in 2022 and 2023, he returned to a full-time…
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As we approach the November elections in the United States, political dynamics related to Israel-Palestine continue to influence key developments in the American political arena. Public opinion is no longer as dominantly favourable towards Israel as it used to be, which worries the Israeli government and its American supporters. This is most apparent in the actions of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading pro-Israel lobbying group in the US. Over the past few months, it invested $8.5m in a campaign to defeat progressive Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush in the Democratic primaries in Missouri. Bush, who championed Palestine justice issues…
The gold medal race between the United States and China came down to the final event of the Paris Olympics. And after 16 days of competition, the U.S. and China will share the title for most golds in 2024. The United States and China will both end the Paris Olympics with 40 gold medals each. The U.S. won the total medal count with 126 (40 gold, 44 silver, and 42 bronze). China came in second in the total medal race with 91 (40 gold, 27 silver, and 24 bronze). The U.S. has been battling with China for the lead in…
Chelsea Football Club have confirmed the signing of Portuguese international, Pedro Neto as the Blues look to build a team ahead of the 2024/25 season.Chelsea confirmed the news on its official website on Sunday, August 11, 2024, the Portuguese international completed his move to Stamford Bridge on a seven-year deal. Pedro Neto is the tenth player that have joined the Blues this transfer window.Who are the players Chelsea have signed this 2024 summer transfer window?The Blues have been one of the busiest clubs this window, having joined Tosin Adarabioyo, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Filip Jorgensen, Omari Kellyman, and Aaron Anselmin. Other players…
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Giants right tackle Evan Neal has passed a physical and has been activated off the PUP list, the club announced. The team also signed linebacker K.J. Cloyd and waived defensive back Kaleb Hayes.New York selected Neal with the No. 7 overall pick of the 2022 draft, though his performance over his first two years in the pros has not aligned with his draft status. During that time, the Alabama product has started 20 games and has struggled mightily, finishing as the second-worst OT in the league in each season in the estimation of Pro Football Focus’ metrics. In Week 9 of the…
President Paul Kagame secures himself another five years in power, pledging to ‘consolidate national unity’ amid criticism from opposition.Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been sworn in for a fourth term after sweeping to victory in an election last month with more than 99 percent of the vote. Several dozen heads of state and other dignitaries from African nations attended the inauguration ceremony on Sunday at a packed 45,000-seat stadium in Kigali, where crowds had started gathering from the early morning. Kagame took the oath of office before Chief Justice Faustin Ntezilyayo, pledging to “preserve peace and national sovereignty, consolidate national…
The final event of the Paris Games delivered a history-making performance from the U.S. women’s basketball team. The American women battled back from behind to win another gold medal over France to close out the 2024 Olympics. In a game that saw each team leading in points at different times throughout, the U.S. victory denied France its first-ever basketball gold and in the process the U.S. women’s team became the first in any sport to win eight straight Olympic titles. In a dramatic final game, the U.S. women’s basketball team will take home gold after beating France, 67-66. It was…
Grammy-winning Nigerian singer, Burna Boy, has taken to social media to address the misunderstanding surrounding his recent album release announcement. On July 29, Burna Boy tweeted “Album dropping 12am”, which led many fans and media outlets to believe that his new album would drop on the same day at 12am.However, Burna Boy has now clarified on Sunday, August 11, that he never specified the date, only the time. In a follow-up tweet, he wrote: “Ladies and gentlemen, A valuable lesson on paying attention to detail. I said 12am, I never said what date. No be say I whine una o…
The problem is that 85 of the 194 countries surveyed by the WHO technical advisory group that came up with the new estimates don’t have good enough death registries for this to be a viable approach. Forty-one of those countries are in sub-Saharan Africa.For these countries, a team led by Jonathan Wakefield, a statistician at the University of Washington in Seattle, used the data from countries with complete death registries to build another statistical model able to predict total COVID deaths in any month from other measures, including temperature, the percentage of COVID tests returning positive, a rating of the…