KANSAS CITY, Mo. — No one expected Mike Trout’s puzzling to slump to last as long as it has, and now perhaps it’s finally over. Trout homered just after Shohei Ohtani put the Angels up with a two-run homer in the fifth inning of the Angels’ 5-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s fitting that Brandon Drury reached Father’s Day playing his best baseball of the season, because he said he owes his father for helping to turn around his career. Drury had hit .205 with a .600 OPS over three straight years from 2018-20, seasons that he now calls “awful.” That’s when…
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Michael Brigandi was 18, not long out of high school, when he was drafted into the Army in February 1944. Four months later, he found himself in England, waiting for transport to Utah Beach in Normandy. That wait took four days, for reasons unknown to him. “When you’re 18 or 19 years old, all you’re…
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For years, the California Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom have signed off on lucrative and unjustified contracts for the state prison guard union, despite warnings from the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s Office that legally required compensation studies were not being conducted. Now, the Newsom administration is pulling a fast one on California taxpayers with a flawed…
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This last week and within 24 hours, the Securities and Exchange Commission made two allegations against the cryptocurrency platforms Binance and Coinbase, asserting the latter was engaged in illicit securities trading within the United States. These moves mark a significant escalation in the SEC’s efforts to regulate an industry that has long existed in a…
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There’s always been a performative aspect to American politics. Politicians say or do things to seek attention, rather than contribute to governance. But it has become pervasive in recent years. Former President Donald Trump personifies the bombastic approach, saying anything to get his supporters riled up – even to the point of violence – and…
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As the exodus of Californians and their businesses continues apace, Gov. Gavin Newsom denies reality, downplaying the flow of people and companies from his state as inconsequential. But the facts are well-documented — and grim: from January 2020 to July 2022, the state lost 600,000 people. That’s more than the population of Wyoming. The loss…
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In 1920, nearly one million Americans voted for Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs for president even though he was in a prison cell at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Debs had been convicted two years earlier of violating the Espionage Act of 1917. He was charged for giving a speech that was critical of America’s…
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Ana, a frontline nurse during the pandemic, spent over two years singularly focused on providing the best care possible for her patients and staying updated on scientific research surrounding Covid. Despite her exhaustion, she was happy to work. Ana had put herself through nursing school and graduated with honors. She now devotes herself to her…
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