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Ben Verlander FOX Sports MLB Analyst Dear Dodgers fans,I know our relationship hasn’t been the easiest or the most amicable. I know many of you don’t like me, and I fully admit to playing into that dynamic on social media. You see the name Verlander, you think back to the 2017 World Series and the Houston Astros. You’ve got a lot to say about me. I get it.But now, things have changed. Shohei Ohtani has signed with your favorite team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for a historic 10-year, $700 million contract that includes a staggering $680 million of deferred money…
Red Wall Labour MPs are demanding ministers “act now before it’s too late” and reverse the unpopular cut to winter fuel payments.A number of MPs in the Red Wall – the term used to describe Labour’s traditional heartlands in the north of England – reposted a statement on social media in which they said the leadership’s response to the local elections had “fallen on deaf ears”. They singled out the cut to the winter fuel allowance as an issue that was raised on the doorstep and urged the government to rethink the policy, arguing that doing so “isn’t weak, it…
WHEN the Kohl’s Corp board fired its chief executive on Thursday (May 1), less than four months into his tenure, the struggling retailer’s stock soared.Kohl’s announced that it had terminated Ashley Buchanan for cause, having discovered he directed millions of dollars of business to someone with whom he had an undisclosed personal relationship. Wall Street seemed to be buying Kohl’s based on the idea that its board had done its job by taking decisive action once it uncovered the CEO’s misdeeds. But should investors have been so confident that the directors had acted heroically? It didn’t take long for more details…
Known tipster ICE CAT has posted some “exclusive information” on X today, claiming that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 will launch as the thinnest foldable in the world. At 3.9mm when open and just 8.9mm when folded, the Z Fold 7 would beat both the Honor Magic V3 and the Oppo Find N5 (just about). According to some exclusive information, the next direction of Samsung flagship machine is still to be thin and light, and the battery will be thin and thin, and the body will continue to be thin. The Galaxy Z Fold7 will be the thinnest folding…
The Miz honored one of his only friends in the WWE locker room by going one-on-one with Big Bronson Reed in R-Truth’s honor after Reed utterly destroyed Truth with a series of Tsunamis following their match on Monday Night Raw last week.
[SHANGHAI] Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is partnering with popular content platform Xiaohongshu to allow users on Xiaohongshu to directly click on product links to shop on Alibaba’s Taobao platform. The move essentially formalises an app-to-app shopping connection between Xiaohongshu – also known as RedNote and often compared with Instagram – and Alibaba’s e-commerce infrastructure.“By combining Taobao and Tmall’s commerce expertise with Xiaohongshu’s strength in lifestyle content, we’re helping brands reach consumers more effectively,” said Liu Bo, vice-president of Alibaba Group and president of Tmall. The broadening of the strategic partnership between Alibaba and Xiaohongshu comes as China’s e-commerce giants vie for market…
Coinbase has just pulled the wraps off x402—an open standard that dusts off and gives new purpose to the long-dormant HTTP “402 Payment Required” status code. The big idea is to let developers, and even AI agents, slot stablecoin payments right into the back-and-forth of web interactions. Traditional payment systems were bolted onto the digital world rather than being born from it. They’re often slow, can sting with unexpected costs, are fenced in by geography, and frequently demand someone manually poke things to keep them moving. As our online lives have exploded in scale and complexity, these old payment methods…
This article is part of our Design special section about how food inspires designers to make and do surprising things.Many people look at avocados and see guacamole. An agave plant is little more than a future shot of tequila, a corn stalk the raw material for a warm tortilla.But the Mexican designer Fernando Laposse engineers those things into the stuff of luxury furniture. Corn husks and avocado skins are diced, pressed and turned into veneers that serve as textured tabletops and wall paneling. Agave leaves are shredded into furry fibers that transform sofas and benches into playful, zoomorphic objects that…
Amsterdam prospered as a banking center even as it declined as a center of manufacturing and commerce. By the late 18th century, Europe no longer wanted Dutch fabrics or Dutch fish, and it no longer needed Dutch ships. In 1783, a group of Dutch merchants sent a gift of salted herring to George Washington, requesting his endorsement and, presumably, seeking a new market. Washington responded that the herring was “undoubtedly of a higher flavour than our own,” but that America had plenty of fish. What remained in demand was all the money the Dutch had made from trade. The merchants…
[WASHINGTON] The new head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission told staff on Tuesday the agency has lost 15 per cent of its headcount across offices and divisions and he expects to conduct a “targeted” reorganisation, according to sources familiar with the matter.Paul Atkins, who was sworn in two weeks ago, said the agency would begin reviewing the SEC’s contracts for business services on Wednesday, especially in information technology, four of the sources said.The SEC has shed more than 600 staff members through resignation offers as part of efforts to shrink the federal government by President Donald Trump and…