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There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to handle themselves. That’s why we’re here to help, though, by sifting through the previous days’ games, and figuring out what you missed, but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:Wait, you can do that?Did you know that one player can redirect a batted ball into the glove of another player and that it still counts as an out? That all you need to do to make it work is to not let the ball touch the ground? If you didn’t,…
[WASHINGTON] US retail sales growth slowed in April as the boost from households front-loading motor vehicle purchases ahead of tariffs faded and households pulled back on other spending against the backdrop of an uncertain economic outlook.Retail sales edged up 0.1 per cent last month after an upwardly revised 1.7 per cent surge in March, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau said on Thursday (May 15). Economists polled by Reuters had forecast retail sales, which are mostly goods and are not adjusted for inflation, unchanged after a previously reported 1.5 per cent jump in March.Estimates ranged from a 0.6 per cent decline…
👉Listen to Politics at Sam and Anne’s on your podcast app👈 Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy serve up their essential guide to the day in British politics. Today, Sir Keir Starmer heads to Albania to announce a crackdown on migrant smuggling gangs in the Balkans, while internal political unrest continues to brew at home.Sam and Anne discuss the growing tension inside both the Labour and Conservative parties, and Sam reveals how the first cracks between the chancellor and the PM have started to form. What does this mean for an increasingly under-pressure Starmer?Plus: Tory uncertainty deepens, leaving…
[HANOI] Vingroup-backed VinSpeed has secured preliminary support from the Vietnamese government to invest in the North-South high-speed railway project, with a total investment of US$61.3 billion. This suggests a shift from the current public investment model to a private direct investment one, according to a notice dated May 15 issued by the government office and reviewed by The Business Times. Government agencies have been asked to collaborate with VinSpeed to assess and finalise the investment proposal. The investment policy change as well as special mechanisms for the project are currently under proposal and assessment by authorities. It will require final approval from the parliament. Previously, Vietnam’s parliament…
There have also been several studies examining the effects of social interdependence and similar social contexts on children’s ability to delay gratification, using variations of the marshmallow test paradigm. For instance, in 2020, a team of German researchers adapted the classic experimental setup using Oreos and vanilla cookies with German and Kenyan schoolchildren, respectively. If both children waited to eat their treat, they received a second cookie as a reward; if one did not wait, neither child received a second cookie. They found that the kids were more likely to delay gratification when they depended on each other, compared to…
NBC Sports president Rick Cordella put it best when summarizing what the NFL’s scheduling department goes through each year.“I have five kids at home and you never satisfy them all. Just try and do your best, so I think it’s a little bit of that,” Cordella said Wednesday afternoon after he had a chance to look at the “Sunday Night Football” slate for the upcoming season. “They have really, really hard jobs. I have no doubt. We’re all campaigning. We’re all leveraging. We all pay a lot of money for these rights and we all want the same thing.”One would…
NEW YORK — One week into a new job, Lisa Grouette discovered something missing come Sunday night: the sinking feeling of dread she used to experience before going to work every Monday.Groutte spent 10 years at an insurance agency with a boss whom she alleges screamed at her, slammed his hands on the desk, insulted her appearance and punched things. He falsely accused her of taking money and threatened to withhold an employment recommendation if she quit, she says. Fearing she wouldn’t land another job if she left the toxic workplace, she stayed. “It was this implied, ‘You’re stuck,'” Grouette,…
Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal obstruction charges stemming from her allegedly helping a man evade immigration authorities during a federal law enforcement operation at her courthouse.Dugan, a Milwaukee county circuit court judge, was arrested in April by the FBI after director Kash Patel said she “intentionally misdirected federal agents away” from an illegal immigrant who had a criminal court hearing in front of the judge and was set to be arrested after his hearing ended.A federal judge set Dugan’s trial to begin the week of July 21. Dugan was charged with one count of concealing an individual to…
[HANOI/SHANGHAI] Fast-fashion online retailer Shein is leasing a huge warehouse in Vietnam, its first in the country, in a move that could reduce its exposure to unpredictable US-China trade tensions.This is according to two people who are familiar with the deal. They declined to be named because the information was not public.Shein, which was founded in China and sells products including US$5 bike shorts and US$18 sundresses, has agreed to lease nearly 15 hectares of industrial land for a warehouse near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s commercial and trading hub, the two sources said.The online retailer, which almost entirely relies…
CarPlay Ultra on Aston Martin – Image credit Apple Hitting the streets at least five months late, Apple’s next-generation CarPlay experience that it is calling “CarPlay Ultra” will start arriving in Aston Martin cars in the next few weeks. Apple first gave a sneak-peek at the next-generation CarPlay experience in 2022. At the time, it said that it would land on vehicles by the end of 2024. What Apple showed was nothing less than the complete takeover of a car’s entire dashboard by CarPlay. Instead of being confined to a square-ish screen that shows a few apps, CarPlay Ultra runs everything. And, it’s…