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Who has the title or deed?

Here's the current MLB Top 10 Wins Above Replacement (WAR) - all positions:

Judge • NYY • 5.4

Peña • HOU • 4.2

Skenes • PIT • 4.1

Crow-Armstrong • CHC • 4.0

Skubal • DET • 3.7

Ohtani • LAD • 3.6

Fried • NYY • 3.4

Raleigh • SEA • 3.4

Tatís • SDP • 3.3

Brown • HOU • 3.3

He made a couple unbelievable, very long, winding putts in an US Open course

And was also not among the crowd of famous rappers engaging in homosex under the auspices of Poof Daddy.

Kanye supports Poof Daddy

Birds of a feather

Not many times in today's NBA where a team that sinks only 3 threes and have just 11 total assists can win a ballgame, much less a Finals game

But that's what the OKC Thunder just did - and that's due to their defense

This NBA Finals has been an up-and-down affair. Can't really predict who's gonna win

OKC has the league MVP in SGA and defensive teammates, while Indiana has the players-voted "most overrated" in Tyrese Haliburton with a coach who holds the NBA record for most wins as an underdog in playoff history

Yes, we already know that China is not ahead of the US

They still haven't even got Siri right - and that's been over a decade

Good for all

David Attenborough is the Walter Cronkite for the oceans

All those gay rappers hiding behind their fake macho/gangsta facades. And they all vote Democrat, of course!

Kanye campaigned for Trump

When our area lost electricity for a couple weeks, thank goodness the water still worked

(While no cellular signals, but surprisingly enough, landline internet when ya can provide power to the modem and wi-fi router, e.g. UPS battery)

Necessities such as food and water are given top priority, but the importance of keeping toilets working is often overlooked. The maintenance of sanitary toilets in times of disaster is also essential to saving people's lives, experts say.

Yeah, if ya want people to survive, ya have to also give the means for people to expel what they eat and drink

Because when people don't think there are toilets available, they would just eat and drink as little as possible. They'd avoid having to go to the toilet!

Congrats to them!

And Spike Lee was there - the guy gets around! lol

Only Gauff, Swiatek, Naomi Osaka and Maria Sharapova have won multiple Slam titles before turning 22 in the last 20 years.

Congrats to Coco! She's really grown up. And literally too: when she started as a teen, she was so small - now she's 5'9"

And now that she's won 2 Grand Slams, she can be considered a serious contender for the top rank. Too many times, people are so quick to queen a first-time GS winner especially when they're young. But young players are notorious for being inconsistent. So ya don't know until they win their 2nd Slam

The second-ranked American dug deep to claim a 6-7 (5/7), 6-2, 6-4 victory and her second major title after also defeating Sabalenka at the 2023 U.S. Open.

On both Open Finals, Gauff beat Sabalenka similarly - losing the 1st set, then winning the last 2 sets. She's the first woman to win her first 2 Grand Slams like that

And the French Open is the one she wanted to win the most because since she was young, it's the one she believes she has the best shot of winning

So far only 2 private spacecrafts, both US-based, have successfully landed on the moon

It's hard like rocket science - NASA just made it look easy with its successful Mars landings

Par for the course

A third example OpenAI found was a China-origin influence operation that generated polarized social media content supporting both sides of divisive topics within U.S. political discourse, including text and AI-generated profile images.

Copying Russia's "Internet Research Agency"

She probably just wanted him out. My wife gets like that sometimes.

Hopefully your wife stops the car first, lol

Japan becoming more dangerous

Last year's Finals against the same Panthers, Draisaitl did not score a single goal in 7 games

This first game, he scored the first (in just 66 secs) and last (with just 31 secs left)

LOL and they want to host the World Cup

And yet, Egypt is not one of the bans

"Trump bans citizens of 12 countries from entering US, ties move to attack on Colorado rally"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-bans-entry-from-12-countries-ties-move-to-attack-on-colorado-rally-for-hostages/

Trump said the new travel ban is tied to an attack on a rally in Colorado

An Egyptian national, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, has been charged in the attack.

The people of South Korea voted against any party who would proclaim Martial Law and govern like a dictator

Good for them

If China thinks they're in the right, then why are they trying to hide it

The quotes are real - interviews between Eastwood and the now-dissolved Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). Those interviews are available to all HFPA members, including Sereda

But the article wrongly presented it as a current interview when it wasn't

That's why Eastwood said he was never interviewed by the newspaper

Lol, so much for Hollywood is dead

Good for her - she beat "the man"

Everybody has always hated "the man" in the music industry

She signed the contracts to the company that invested in her and put up all the money to promote her that made her famous. I'm glad she purchased the songs back but to make out she was a victim wasn't the correct way to do it.

She didn't even get the courtesy to be informed when her music were sold the 1st and 2nd times. She offered to buy her music back after the 1st time, but Braun refused. After Braun sold it (2nd time), that's when the new (now ex) owners and Swift's team got into negotiations

Yeah, and it only took 2 years!!! /s

Some "cooperation" from China, lol

And so, all that hullabaloo about the spread of ocean radiation mutating into 3-eyed fishes by the Chinese propagandists turned out to be wrong again?

If the tables were reversed, would the Chinese Coast Guard done the same for a Japanese crewmember??

I HIGHLY doubt it.

The Chinese Coast Guard will probably still rescue the Japanese crewmember

Then likely arrest that crewmember with the charge of "spying"

And hold as hostage in exchange for political concessions

Modus Operandi

Innocent passage...

Innocent Passage only applies as long as the ships ONLY pass WITHOUT doing anything

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_passage

*Innocent passage** is a concept in the law of the sea that allows for a vessel to pass through the territorial sea (and certain grandfathered internal waters) of another state, subject to certain restrictions. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Article 19 defines innocent passage as:*

1.) Passage is innocent so long as it is not prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State. Such passage shall take place in conformity with this Convention and with other rules of international law.

2.) Passage of a foreign ship shall be considered to be prejudicial to the peace, good order or security of the coastal State if in the territorial sea it engages in any of the following activities:

(c) any act aimed at collecting information to the prejudice of the defence or security of the coastal State;

(d) any act of propaganda aimed at affecting the defence or security of the coastal State;

(j) the carrying out of research or survey activities;

(l) any other activity not having a direct bearing on passage.

Kelsey O’Callaghan, the founder of a Salt Lake City kitchen and bathroom accessories company called Dorai Home, said she expected the trade war to continue. The constant flux since Trump's return to office has made her “numb,” but O'Callaghan said she has tried to make educated decisions.

The company already postponed the launch of several new products, laid off the CEO and some other key employees. It paused order shipments from China in early April but resumed some on a staggered basis when the president Trump lowered the rate for Chinese goods to 30% for 90 days.

Now, Dorai Home plans to test price increases to see if shoppers will still buy its products.

That's the US market right now, in a nutshell