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Cubs face the Pirates with 1-0 series lead

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

Pittsburgh Pirates (70-81, fourth in the NL Central) vs. Chicago Cubs (79-72, second in the NL Central)Chicago; Wednesday, 7:40 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Pirates: Mitch Keller (12-9, 4.04 ERA, 1.25 WHIP, 198 strikeouts); Cubs: Justin Steele (16-4, 3.05 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 164 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Cubs -175, Pirates +148; over/under is 8 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Cubs bring a 1-0 lead into the latest game of the series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.Chicago is 79-72 overall and 42-34 in home games. The Cubs have the fifth-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .419.Pittsburgh is 32-41 in road games and 70-81 overall. The Pirates are 36-57 in games when they have given up a home run.The teams match up Wednesday for the 12th time this season. The Cubs lead the season series 10-1.TOP PERFORMERS: Cody Bellinger leads Chicago with 26 home runs while slugging .537. Seiya Suzuki is 12-for-36 with three home runs and eight RBI over the past 10 games.Bryan Reynol...

Descubren “tesoros y secretos” en templo hundido frente a la costa egipcia

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

(CNN) — Se han revelado nuevos “tesoros y secretos” en el sitio de un templo hundido frente a la costa mediterránea de Egipto, anunció este martes el Instituto Europeo de Arqueología Subacuática (IEASM) en un comunicado de prensa.Un equipo arqueológico subacuático, dirigido por el arqueólogo marino francés Franck Goddio, realizó más descubrimientos en el sitio de un templo dedicado al dios Amón en la antigua ciudad portuaria de Thonis-Heracleion en la bahía de Aboukir, dijo el instituto.El equipo investigó el canal sur de la ciudad, donde enormes bloques de piedra del antiguo templo se derrumbaron “durante un evento cataclísmico que data de mediados del siglo II a. C.”, dijo el instituto.El templo del dios Amón era el lugar al que acudían los faraones “para recibir los títulos de su poder como reyes universales del dios supremo del antiguo panteón egipcio”, decía.Encuentran cuatro espadas romanas de hace 1.900 años en una cueva de Israel“Se desenterraron obje...

DC Shorts Film Festival celebrates 20th anniversary with stacked film blocks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

The D.C. Shorts Film Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary in the nation’s capital.The largest short-film-only festival on the East Coast runs this Wednesday through Sunday, Sept. 24.“Keep it short, keep it real, no need to keep it real short. Twenty years of filmmaking and we’re making films for 20 more,” festival director Beau Canlas told WTOP. “Not only are we keeping the traditions started by Jon Gann in 2003 … we are trying to start new traditions. … We have 16 world premieres and 55 women filmmakers, which highlights the mission of D.C. Shorts with the idea that we champion short filmmaking and the idea of inclusivity.”The five-day festival kicks off Wednesday at the JxJ: Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington D.C., located on 16th Street, Northwest, with a slate of international short films and documentary shorts.“The way I planned these blocks is I tried to give the audience a ride,” program director Joe Carabeo...

Azerbaijan and Armenia fight for 2nd day over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — Explosions rocked parts of Nagorno-Karabakh early Wednesday, a day after Azerbaijani forces used heavy artillery fire on Armenian positions in the separatist region that local officials said killed or wounded scores of people.Azerbaijan has called the artillery fire an “anti-terrorist operation” and said it will continue until the separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh dismantles itself and “illegal Armenian military formations” surrender.It said it is only targeting military sites, but significant damage was visible on the streets of the regional capital, Stepanakert, with shop windows blown out and vehicles punctured apparently by shrapnel.The blasts reverberated around Stepanakert every few minutes on Wednesday morning, with some explosions in the distance and others closer to the city.The artillery fire raised concerns that a full-scale war in the region could resume between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which for more than three decades have been locked in ...

Macron rolls out the red carpet for King Charles III

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

PARIS — Royalty fans in France and beyond are in for a treat as British King Charles III kicks off his long-awaited state visit to Paris on Wednesday to celebrate historic ties and bolster post-Brexit cooperation between France and the U.K. The three-day visit, which was supposed to be the British monarch’s first foreign trip as king after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, was postponed in March over social unrest in France. The visit, which takes the British head of state to Paris and Bordeaux, will be redolent of pomp and ceremony, with French President Emmanuel Macron pulling out all the stops to impress his guest.After landing in Paris on Wednesday, King Charles and Queen Camilla will join Macron and his wife Brigitte and take part in a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, before holding talks at the Elysée Palace. The British monarch will attend a banquet dinner later in the evening at the sumptuous Versailles Palace — a venue long associated with absolute ...

Azerbaijan declares victory in lightning Nagorno-Karabakh offensive

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

YEREVAN, Armenia — Azerbaijan on Wednesday declared victory after a daylong military assault on Nagorno-Karabakh, during which Baku pounded the ethnic-Armenian controlled region with artillery fire.Nagorno-Karabakh’s ethnic Armenian leadership on Wednesday morning agreed to a cease-fire in an effort to prevent further bloodshed as Azerbaijani forces made major advances in the breakaway region.According to Azerbaijan’s ministry of defense, quoted by state media, the Karabakh Armenian side has agreed to “lay down their weapons, leave their combat positions and military posts and disarm completely. Units of the Armenian armed forces [will] leave the territories of Azerbaijan, illegal Armenian armed groups [will be] dissolved.”In a statement, the government of ethnic-Armenian controlled Nagorno-Karabakh said that Azerbaijan had inflicted casualties and captured strategic locations, despite its own troops fighting to hold the line. “Regrettably, the defense army h...

Surprise fall in UK inflation eases pressure on Bank of England

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

Consumer inflation in the U.K. fell surprisingly in August, easing the pressure on the Bank of England to deliver a 15th straight rise in interest rates when its decision-makers meet Thursday.The consumer price index rose only 0.3 percent from July, the Office for National Statistics said, rather than the 0.7 rise expected. That brought the headline rate of inflation down to 6.7 percent from 6.8 percent the previous month.The ONS’s broadest measure of inflation, CPIH, which includes the housing costs of owner-occupiers, fell to 6.3 percent from 6.4 percent in July.The news is a welcome fillip for the Conservative government, for whom the cost-of-living crisis has become a key vulnerability in the election campaign that will start next year.“Inflation never falls in a straight line but it’s now down 40 percent from it’s [sic] peak,” Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt said via X. “The plan is working.”However, he was quick to rule out any suggestion that the numbers give the gove...

Great Weather… For Now

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

Clear skies and crisp air kicks off this Wednesday morning as temps start in the 50s. We’ll go from sweatshirt weather this morning to t-shirt weather this afternoon as highs head back up into the low to mid 70s. Stellar September weather for sure as sunshine wins out too. With humidity very low, it’ll allow for a quick drop in temps this evening as the numbers slide back into the 40s for many by daybreak tomorrow. Yet again, it’ll be another nice bounce back with highs in the lower 70s tomorrow afternoon. It’s pretty much a rinse and repeat forecast for Friday. The weekend brings in challenges to the forecast as plenty of moisture will be tracking up the East coast. It looks like at least some of that moisture will move in, allowing for the rain potential Saturday afternoon into Sunday. How much rain will depend on how far north all the moisture goes, but the highest risk of heavy rain is across Southeast Mass. Temps will be cooler over the weekend, in the ...

OBF: 0-2? 0-3? Oh no if Pats lose to Jets

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

The NFL offered a media release Tuesday imploring those whose teams are now 0-2 to keep it together.“No Need To Panic” was the headline on the email direct from the Politburo to my inbox.It’s been 22 years since the Patriots began 0-2.New England’s NFL entry last fell to 0-2 Sept. 23, 2001.That 10-3 loss to the Jets has been bronzed.It was the first game for the Patriots after 9/11.With 5:01 left in the fourth quarter, Mo Lewis knocked Drew Bledsoe out of the game.(It was a savage, but clean, shoulder hit. Bledsoe was still on the field and not heading out of bounds.)And launched Tom Brady into immortality.Week 3 of the 2001 season marked Brady’s first NFL start.Tom Brady 1 – Peyton Manning 0.Just 24, Brady would go on to win his first Super Bowl that season.At 24, Mac Jones needed a boost from Bill O’Brien to beat Bailey Zappe for the QB1 spot.The final bell has since tolled for Brady’s NFL playing career.Tom is not coming through that door …  until next June.Roger Good...

Howie Carr: Statie nabbed in OT sting wins back $90K pension kiss

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:11:02 GMT

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.Or if you don’t want to lose your tax-free kiss in the mail.But corrupt thieving convicted felon ex-Massachusetts State Police Lt. John Giulino apparently never watched the old TV show Baretta, maybe because he was too busy stealing $29,000 with his badge and his gun and his free police cruiser.In 2020, Giulino was stripped of his $90,000 tax-free pension pulled after he pleaded guilty to putting in for 85 overtime shifts on the Mass Turnpike that he did not work. He backed his felonious theft by writing fake traffic tickets.But now, at age 72, the greed-crazed crooked cop Giulino has found a district-court judge who decreed that the kleptomaniac cop should get his bloated state pension back.It’s just one hack helping another. Call it professional courtesy.Let me ask you this: will you get a $90,000-a-year pension when you retire? And I’m guessing you’ve never been convicted of stealing more than $29,000 in public funds.Don’t do the crime ...