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Joey Gallo and his Dodgers clinched the National League West title last night in the team’s 4-0 shutout of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The division clincher gave the Los Angeles Dodgers their ninth NL West crown in 10 years. In the game against the D’backs, Gallo accidentally rolled his left ankle after swinging. The outfielder looked to be in pain after the incident. He endured this, however, and stayed in the game....

“It has been 19 days since the weekly $600 enhanced unemployment benefits expired, leaving 30 million Americans in a lurch,” the letter said. “We owe it to people waiting to get back to work across the country not only to extend unemployment benefits to help them pay their bills, but to tie these benefits to economic conditions so workers are not held hostage by another cliff like this one.”...

While speaking with Kenny McIntosh of Inside The Ropes, Kingston discussed what AEW brings to the table that makes them different from other promotions who have tried to compete with WWE in New York. The Mad King explained that AEW has high-profile wrestlers on their roster, such as CM Punk, Kenny Omega, and The Young Bucks as the difference-makers among other stars in the company. It’s fair to argue that AEW holds the most attractive and stacked men’s and women’s roster among other wrestling promotions....

Portman appeared on ABC News’ This Week on Sunday to discuss the infrastructure negotiations. Show host Jonathan Karl asked Portman if the president was negotiating the bill in good faith and brought up the miscommunication between Biden and a group of Republican senators. “I think that there’s been good faith on both sides,” Portman responded. “It’s true that there was a miscommunication there in terms of linking the two, but that was never part of our discussion and never part of the bipartisan group discussion that’s been going on for almost four months now....

An important site in the history of the civil rights movement, the town was where the Selma to Montgomery marches began in 1965, and was also where Bloody Sunday took place on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In the episode, Bob, Shangela and Eureka met with four women from the River Center for Humanity, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Joyce O’Neal, JoAnne Bland, and Afriyie We-kandodis, activists who experienced Bloody Sunday first-hand....

By the fall of 2019, I had just started as executive director at Open Cupboard, a hunger relief organization in Minnesota. I was just getting my feet wet, and then everything changed when the pandemic happened. Our board was aware we had gotten these generous donations and wanted to put them to good use; we didn’t want them to sit in a bank account. We were asking ourselves: Where would they be helpful?...

I’ve been in the building industry since I left school at 16, my dad was a joiner and carpenter and he trained me up so I’ve always loved architecture, buildings and interior design. But I didn’t want to continue working on traditional buildings. I was living with my friend Jade, and she had a big van that she wanted to convert into a tiny home. We ended up converting it in the back shed and driveway of where we were living....

The LA Lakers came into the game without Anthony Davis, who sat out owing to a hip injury. The Chicago Bulls fought till the end as Zach LaVine posted an impressive 38 points, while Wendall Carter, Jr. chipped in with 23. The LA Lakers responded with an all-round team performance as LeBron James went for 28 points, 7 assists and 7 rebounds. However, the Lakers did miss the commanding presence of Anthony Davis, with both Marc Gasol and Montrezl Harrel not providing the dominant rim protection that AD offers....

Liverpool have been ravaged by injuries in the Premier League this season, with stars Sadio Mane, Philippe Coutinho, Adam Lallana, Jordon Henderson and Joel Matip all spending time on the sidelines. Mou: Pogba price tag a burden Klopp has lamented the number of injuries in 2016-17 and the German manager knows Liverpool must be active in the transfer market as they juggle the addition of another tournament – the Merseyside club currently occupying the fourth and final Champions League qualifying berth heading into the final game of the season....

WEYMOUTH: What is your reaction to the beginning of the war? Erdogan: I’m sad I couldn’t reach my goal of peace. Are you happy at the prospect of the end of the regime of Saddam Hussein? It would please us to end a totalitarian regime and to have a democratic process in Iraq. Are you sorry Turkey is not a full part of the coalition? Turkey is part of the coalition....

That appears to have been the case with a driving game that was going to be a new addition in the Driver franchise. Now it’s the eagerly anticipated - but recently delayed - Watch Dogs. Talking to IGN, Ubisoft’s North American president Laurent Detoc admitted that the Driver game and the engine they built for it just weren’t working out. This sounds familiar to the Rainbow 6: Patriots situation at Ubisoft....

Chennai City FC did not enjoy a good spell of play in the opening half. Their star striker Pedro Manzi was taken off in the second half. It was in the final 20 minutes of the match that the league leaders found their missing flair. After trailing for nearly half an hour, the visitors restored parity just around 10 minutes from the stoppage time. Chennai City FC’s coach Akbar Nawas was pretty content with the stalemate in Kolkata....

Verratti is Xavi’s heir at Barcelona Zidane took charge of Madrid in January 2016 after the club had parted ways with Rafael Benitez and he guided the Santiago Bernabeu side to Champions League glory in his first season as head coach. Madrid, one point clear of second-placed Barcelona but with two games in hand over the chasing pack, are on track to win La Liga this term to follow up last season’s European success....

In an interview with Spanish outlet SPORT, Saviola was asked about the comparison between Barcelona’s new coach Xavi and former coach Pep Guardiola. The former Argentine playmaker responded: Barcelona’s philosophy has led to the development of some of the greatest managerial minds in the game in recent years. Alumni like Pep Guardiola and Luis Enrique have led the club to great success during their spells at the club thanks to the principles held at the Nou Camp....

Woodburn was not tempted by England The Real Madrid star is unavailable due to suspension and even though Allen has acknowledged he will be missed, the midfielder remains optimistic over his side’s chances. “We are going to miss him, there is no point hiding from that fact. He is key to us and he is a world-class player,” Allen told the BBC. “But one of the main qualities of this group is that we are all about teamwork and we are all about resilience....

But ahead of the game, head coach Des Buckingham has warned that Mumbai City FC could not turn their attention away from the clash against the Red & Gold brigade. ISL Teams have shown on multiple occasions this season that league standings fly out of the window when the kick-off whistle blows. In response to a Sportskeeda query, the MCFC gaffer said: The detailed ISL fixtures are available here....

I was born in 1953, and started to dive when I was 14. I grew up in a family that loved scuba diving, snorkeling and the underwater world, but at that time it wasn’t as common to dive, there weren’t the training courses that we have today. At university, I became a chemical engineer and I joined my father’s company, but diving and the underwater world was still my main love....

It has been nearly 11 months since COVID-19 first appeared in Wuhan, China and now it seems like no corner of the earth has gone untouched by the virus that has taken the lives of over 1 million people globally. As cities around the world continue to navigate the ever-changing rules and regulations put in place to help stop the spread of the virus, some cities, specifically those in North America, are struggling to keep cases contained....

Chelsea host injury-hit United in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Monday, five months on from their 4-0 top-flight victory over Jose Mourinho’s side. Mourinho wants revenge - Hazard Carrick insists the occasion is not about a chance for revenge, but feels the gap has been vastly reduced since their last visit to Stamford Bridge. “You can’t say we have got a score to settle,” Carrick told reporters ahead of a game which is expected to see United without Anthony Martial, Marcus Rashford and Wayne Rooney as well as the suspended Zlatan Ibrahimoivc....

The praise levied by Trump to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Saudi Arabia’s Mohammad bin Salman and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un was similar to that of which he’s made in the past, where he again refused to publicly condemn certain leaders for taking hostile actions toward American people or interests and boasted of his personal connections with the men. Trump defended his relationships and public remarks about the three authoritarians to reporters....