Toronto Blue Jays starter Chris Bassitt exited Monday’s game against the Chicago White Sox with right lower back tightness, the team said. Bassitt bounced a pitch to the plate in the seventh inning and then motioned to the dugout for the trainer. Manager John Schneider also came out for the visit. Zach Pop replaced Bassitt with the Blue Jays leading 4-2. Bassitt entered the game 2-2 with a 5.40 ERA in his first year with the Blue Jays. After a nightmarish first start in which he gave up nine runs in 3.1 innings, Bassitt has looked far more comfortable. The…
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Alessandra Korap is one of six recipients of the 2023 Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots activism.When Alessandra Korap was born in the mid-1980s, her Indigenous village, nestled in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, was a haven of seclusion. But as she grew up, the nearby city of Itaituba crept closer and closer, with its bustling streets and commercial activity. It was not just her village feeling the encroachment of non-Indigenous outsiders. Two major federal highways paved the way for tens of thousands of settlers, illegal gold miners and loggers into the region’s vast Indigenous territories, which cover a forested area roughly the…
MIAMI (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo is back in the Milwaukee Bucks‘ lineup. He was cleared to play in Monday night’s Game 4 of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series between the top-seeded Bucks and eighth-seeded Miami Heat. .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Antetokounmpo missed Games 2 and 3 of the series — and most of Game 1 — with a bruised lower back. The Bucks trailed the series 2-1 entering Monday’s contest. “He’s warming up and we expect him to play,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said about 90 minutes before game time. Antetokounmpo is a two-time NBA MVP…
Bed Bath & Beyond — one of the original big box retailers known for its seemingly endless offerings of sheets, towels and kitchen gadgets — has filed for bankruptcy protection, following years of dismal sales and losses and numerous failed turnaround plans. The beleaguered home goods chain made the filing Sunday in United States District Court in New Jersey and said it will start an orderly wind-down of its operations, while seeking a buyer for all or some of its businesses. In the bankruptcy filing, the retailer said it anticipates closing all of its stores by June 30. For now,…
Israeli authorities say at least five people, including a 70-year-old, injured in the incident.A Palestinian man has driven his car into a crowd on a Jerusalem street, injuring five people before being shot dead by a passerby, Israeli police said. Hours earlier on Monday, Israeli troops killed a Palestinian during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the latest in a long series of incidents during an upsurge in violence over the past year. Israel’s ambulance service said it treated five people who were injured by the car before transferring them to a hospital, including a 70-year-old man who was…
Si Jiahui reaches quarter-finals of World Snooker Championship; world No 80, the lowest-ranked player left in the tournament, completes 13-7 win over Robert Milkins; Ronnie O’Sullivan and John Higgins had already reached last eight at the Crucible Last Updated: 24/04/23 3:35pm Si Jiahui followed his first-round win over Shaun Murphy with a victory over Robert Milkins at The Crucible World No 80 Si Jiahui advanced to the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship after completing a 13-7 win over Robert Milkins on Monday afternoon. Crucible debutant Si, the lowest-ranked player left in the tournament, resumed 11-5 in front and moved…
Lima, Peru – Last month, 18-year-old Katherine Gómez finally decided to end her brief relationship with her boyfriend, Sergio Tarache. It was a Saturday evening, and despite having planned a night out with friends, she acquiesced to meet him one last time in a crowded plaza in central Lima. The couple began to argue and Tarache abruptly left, according to witnesses. Moments later, surveillance footage revealed him buying gasoline at a nearby station. He returned, doused Gómez and set her aflame with a lighter, fleeing the scene as she burned alive. Nearly six days passed before a superior court judge…
The Falange party founder became one of the pillars of Francisco Franco’s brutal regime.The remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange party, are being removed from a grand basilica to be buried in a low-key family grave as part of Spain’s efforts to stop the glorification of its fascist past. Monday’s exhumation comes six months after Spain passed a law aimed at tackling the legacy of the 1936-39 civil war and decades of dictatorship that followed. The party Primo de Rivera founded in 1933 became one of the pillars of Francisco Franco’s brutal regime, along with…
Gold Cup runner-up Bravemansgame is once again free to race after the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approved the sale of co-owner John Dance’s shares.The Paul Nicholls-trained star, who is set to feature in the Punchestown Gold Cup on Wednesday, was denied the opportunity to run at Aintree earlier this month after the FCA intervened following “serious regulatory and operational issues” related to a business linked to Dance. Dance founded Vertem Asset Management, a prominent sponsor within racing, but that firm is one of three trading names of WealthTek LLP, which was ordered to cease trading. In a statement on Monday,…
Nikolai Peskov says his father is proud of him after a stint fighting against Kyiv’s forces.The son of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman says in an interview that he has served in Ukraine under an assumed name as an artilleryman in the Wagner mercenary force. Nikolai Peskov, the 33-year-old son of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, told the privately owned Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that he had served in Ukraine, a rare public example of the son of a senior Russian official fighting in the war. “It was on my initiative,” Peskov, whose father has served as Putin’s spokesman since 2008, said…