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Happy Father's Day, White Sox fans.I'm aware of how emotionally challenging holidays honoring parents can be (especially for me in the month of May), so I promise that I won't deliver the toxically-positive aren't-all-dads-the-best? fodder.Instead, I'm going to lend you my dad.My dad is funny, and cool, and he'll sit with you through anything, even when he's uncomfortable.

Auto industry leaders didn't used to be the sort of folks who talked about transformational change.Car companies tended to hire longtime industry veterans as chief executives, and their talking points would tread the same staid ground: better gas mileage, new design concepts, and other slight changes to the same gas-powered products they had been selling for generations.

Early in her new cookbook Time & Tide, Emily Scott writes that her life in Cornwall could be drawn from the lines of a Daphne du Maurier story.And so it appears from the gorgeous book as a whole.When she's not explaining how to make crab sandwiches and gorse-flower fudge to pack for boat trips, Scott is evoking sea mists and screeching gulls, precarious cliff walks and the whitewashed walls of her Newquay home decked out with nautical maps and seaweed prints.

When Edward and Hazel Short put their life savings into building their fantasy home on the coast, they hoped it would change their lives for the better and give their two children a fabulous childhood.Instead, more than 10 years on the luxury house is up for sale, the couple's marriage is over and millionaire Mr Short is still paying off some of the money he borrowed for the ambitious building project.

A nine-year-old tennis player who was born with a congenital limb difference has said she is very confident on the court after a prosthetic was made to help her serve the ball.Joanie Melady, from South Oxfordshire, was born with a congenital limb difference, meaning that her left arm did not fully develop before birth.

Domestic abuse survivors are being forced to return to live with perpetrators, or face homelessness, because they are unable to get a place in a refuge amid ever-growing demand.A report seen by the Observer, to be published on Monday, found that more than a quarter of the women supported last year through a government-funded scheme were subjected to further abuse by the perpetrator while waiting for a refuge space.

Few things divide opinion in the restaurant world like the tasting menu.Over the past 20 years, this extended format has both accumulated cachet as a signifier of culinary ambition and attracted relentless dyspeptic criticism.In 2012, the New York Times's restaurant critic, Pete Wells, was feeling trapped, helpless in the face of marathon meals.

After decades of enthusiastically giving Los Angeles tours to out-of-town friends and family, and even co-authoring a walking guide to the city, I'm all too aware that things have changed.Recent guests have been stunned by the tent encampments, sidewalks piled with debris and shuttered storefronts I see daily.

Anas Sarwar has said he wants Scotland and the UK to lead the world in the green revolution as the Labour party prepares to unveil its energy plans.The Scottish Labour leader said that Great British Energy, a new, publicly owned clean energy company, would help realise that ambition.Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Mr Sarwar are due to announce more details about the party's plans on Monday.

The cricket club of Nottingham attack victim Barnaby Webber has organised a memorial game for their irreplaceable teammate and friend.The game, which will take place at 1.30pm on June 24, will be captained by Barnaby's closest friends Ed Smith and Jakarta Allen-Skinner.In a post shared on Twitter, Bishops Hull Cricket Club said that it would love to see as many people as possible come along to join us in celebrating a wonderful life through something [Barnaby] loved, cricket.

The Prince of Wales has revealed that he wants to make it his mission to end homelessness in the UK.In an interview with The Times, William said that he will launch a really big project to take on the issue.However, the details of the five-year project are being kept secret until the end of the month.

The Afghan pilot threatened with deportation to Rwanda despite having worked with British forces against the Taliban said he feels abandoned after his UK resettlement application was rejected.The air force lieutenant, who flew multiple combat missions planned by coalition forces, travelled to Britain in a small boat after fleeing Afghanistan in fear for his life, leaving his wife and child behind.

By Tom English BBC Scotland


Last updated on .From the section Scotland
On a night when the Mayor of Norwich became the King of Norway, when a Queens Park Rangers man outshone the greatest striker on the planet, Scotland took a mighty leap towards the Euros in Germany next summer.A Burglars XI couldn't have pulled off a smash-and-grab to rival Scotland's caper in Oslo.

Architecture studio Out of the Valley has created a sauna in Devon with blackened-wood cladding and a large square window overlooking the adjacent forest.Called Forest Sauna, the four-person structure aims to encourage UK residents to embrace the Scandinavian tradition of sauna bathing.The project joins the Out of the Valley's existing range of cabins and shelters, which are all handmade by founder Rupert McKelvie and his team at their Dartmoor workshop.

Dezeen School Shows: an aquatic research centre designed to raise awareness of freshwater ecosystems is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the School of Visual Arts.Also featured is a healing centre designed to promote wellbeing through exposure to white noise and a multiethnic restaurant that provides space for chefs to share their cultural heritage through food.

Juan Carlos, recently arrived in Albany, N.Y. after being bused to various cities in the US.He is from Nicaragua, and volunteers with local non-profits in the city as a way to get to know the community and find work.Lexi Parra for NPR Johnson Coronel hopes Albany, N.Y., is the end of the line.He's 26 years old.

Oliver Marmol wanted a bagel on Saturday morning.This is New York, so it should have been easy to get one.But this is also 2023, and Marmol manages the St. Louis Cardinals.Nothing comes easily.It didn't work out, Marmol said.The line was outrageous.The door guy at the hotel said to just skip the line and walk in.

When I came to work at the Chicago Tribune as a newly graduated journalism major, I had something that sounded like a plan.I'll spend two or three years here and, if things don't work out, I'll move on.That was 50 years ago - and I'm still here.Oh, yes, I spent about four years in local television news in the early 1980s, but soon realized, as an old broadcast saying goes, that I had a "great face for radio."

I don't like being mad at the Mets.They're an important part of my life - while I'm not as doctrinaire about it as I was in the not so distant past, it's odd for me not to see or hear every pitch, and decidedly rare for a game to go in the books wholly unglimpsed by me.(The last one, though?It was Friday night.

Craig Race is all for seeing Toronto put more homes on existing lots.That's what the architect did with his own property, splitting the east-end home into two units.He and his family live in one of those units, while the other is rented to somebody else.Toronto has moved to ease the process of revamping homes in this manner, following a council vote last month allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes across city neighbourhoods.

Tory MPs in marginal seats are already sounding the alarm over an interest rate catastrophe, amid claims that the party has not understood the impact of spiralling mortgages.With the Bank of England likely to increase interest rates again this week and major mortgage lenders raising their own rates in the last few days, there is a growing nervousness among Tories about the impact this will have later in the year as the main parties begin to shape their campaigns for the next election.

"Pick a song that you can stand to sing over and over, maybe for years," is advice that Elizabeth Wolf of Merrimac, Mass., gives new parents."Doesn't matter how well you sing it.Over time that will be the most soothing sound your child knows."That sentiment was reflected in the many, many lovely stories you so generously shared with us in response to our story on lullabies.

The Toronto Raptors lost some of their player development skill over the last two-three years.Nick Nurse is gone, replaced with former Memphis Grizzlies assistant coach Darko Rajakovic.Rajakovic should bring a fresh perspective to the team's player development as he has a history of doing so throughout his career.

A letter parents should send to their twentysomething or even 30 year old kids
I recently did a condo/townhouse showing Lexington MA, when I showed them the basement, they were excited, "Finally," they said, "This is large enough that we can tell Billy, to move his sporting equipment out of our garage."

Imagine sinking into a plush, comfortable couch after a long day, looking out over an impeccable skyline as the sun sets, the golden hues of your personal sanctuary reflecting the perfect mix of comfort and luxury.Wouldn't it be amazing if this place was your own?This vision isn't just a dream anymore.

The needless, tragic murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teen, by a white Chicago police officer in 2014 put the city's Police Department, and the need to reform it, in the national spotlight.McDonald's death was a driving force behind the federally mandated consent decree that requires the Chicago Police Department to overhaul its training, supervision and accountability.

At a warehouse in Irving Park, a group of teenage boys and young men between the ages of 14 and 20 sat on couches in a recording studio Wednesday afternoon, taking turns freestyling over a loud beat that bounced off the walls of the glowing room.Music producer and sound engineer Johnny Rayborn maneuvered the settings on his soundboard at the front, looping beats and cutting segments of audio.

The new podcast " You Didn't See Nothin " takes a critical look at the media narrative that followed the 1997 Armour Square neighborhood beating of 13-year-old Lenard Clark Jr., a Black child who lived in the Stateway Gardens public housing development, going to get air for his bike tire, by a group of white Bridgeport teens ages 17 to 19.

When I was a boy, my father was my hero.He could do nothing wrong.What he said was always right, and what he did had no fault.At night, when my father would make his nightly rounds, saying good night to each of his children, I, the only boy of three, was the last to be visited by him and received the most time and attention.

Before the start of St. Sabina's annual twilight community peace march on Friday, Christine Blanton spoke up for her slain child and she wasn't the only one.A sea of hands and photographs of victims, like Blanton's daughter, Derricka Patrick, rose into the air behind the Auburn Gresham church, prompted by rally speakers asking the crowd of more than 200 youngster and adults to raise their hands if they'd lost loved ones to gun violence.

Dear Diary: It was a beautiful, breezy Friday night, beautiful enough that I decided to walk across town after work instead of taking the L. Waiting to cross Second Avenue, I noticed a woman getting out of a car.Then I saw a $20 bill float through the air into the intersection.The woman looked stricken.

I heard my father's voice for the first time three years ago when I was 14 years old.For years, a CD had been sitting in a clear plastic case in my desk drawer, but I had never been able to get myself to play it.I would pick up the shiny disc, stare at the faded black ink that said Donor Interview, notice my distorted reflection in the silver circle, then put the CD back down.

One of the world's newest, most contested coal-burning power plants began operation in December.By January, it had ground to a halt for a month.Again, in April, it sat idle for 23 days.The reason: It didn't have coal to burn.That meant it couldn't produce any electricity nor make money to recoup the $2 billion it cost to build.

The Indonesian anti-corruption investigators began hunting for the powerful local official after they caught two of his aides taking a $40,000 bribe.Their six-month investigation led them to a sprawling estate in North Sumatra, where they made a shocking discovery: 65 men locked in two cages.The captives, investigators learned, had been imprisoned under the guise of a drug rehabilitation program and forced to work as slaves at a palm plantation and palm oil factory owned by the official, Terbit Rencana Perangin-angin, and his family.

Antony J. Blinken landed in Beijing on Sunday morning, making him the first U.S. secretary of state to visit since 2018.Tense relations have delayed the trip for months: He had intended to visit in February, but postponed after the Pentagon announced that a Chinese surveillance balloon was drifting across the continental United States.

As top-tier presidential candidates go, Ron DeSantis is something of a rarity these days.He was born after the Vietnam War, he came of age when computers were common in American homes and he still has young children of his own, rather than enough grandchildren to fill a basketball team.Mr. DeSantis would be 46 on Inauguration Day if elected, younger than every president since John F. Kennedy.

Talk of federal indictments, classified documents and anything related to the president's predecessor are out.Bridge repair, junk fees and prescription drug prices are in.As President Biden ramps up his re-election campaign, his team is focused not on the various investigations into former President Donald J. Trump but rather on spotlighting the ways, however mundane, his administration can assist Americans in their daily lives.

The wounds of Minneapolis are far from healed.T.J. Johnson, a resident of South Minneapolis for 40 years, says he is applying for a gun permit, having long ago given up on the police keeping him safe.Veterans of the city's Police Department, which has lost more than 300 officers, say they are running on fumes, weary from patrolling under a cloud of suspicion.

With just over a week to go until election day, Municipal Affairs Reporter Shawn Jeffords weighs in on some key questions about where the race to become Toronto's next mayor is going in the final days.What's the last week of this thing going to look like?We'll see more campaign announcements and a shift to rallies where candidates can project confidence and a sense of momentum ahead of election day.

It took more than a decade of litigation, but 21 Anishinaabe communities along the north shore of Lake Huron in Ontario will finally access a fair share of the wealth generated on their lands over the past 173 years.The Robinson-Huron Treaty signed in 1850 promised its Indigenous beneficiaries annual payments in exchange for the right to use their lands.

Alek Manoah, the struggling all-star right-hander demoted this month by the Toronto Blue Jays, has made some strides in two simulated games since being sent to the team's complex in Florida."Everything that we were talking about in terms of delivery and stuff was good, so making some strides in the right direction," manager John Schneider said Friday from Arlington, Texas, adding the team is "really just looking at anything that was glaringly different if at all this year compared to the last two years."

Canada is often lauded for its universal health care system, but universal doesn't mean equal access.The reality is that seven million Canadians, particularly those in smaller communities, are without a family doctor in Ontario alone the number is two million.The Northern Ontario School of Medicine University (NOSM) is working to change that with a curriculum that challenges how doctors get trained.

We did not need the verdict of the privileges committee to understand the flaws in Boris Johnson's character.It was clear long before he became prime minister how manifestly unsuited he was for any kind of public office, let alone running the country.But a cross-party group of MPs last week published a damning report that outlined how he deliberately misled parliament about the scale and nature of wrongdoing in Downing Street during the pandemic.

There are a lot of players that have pulled on the Spoked-B and called Boston their home at one point during their NHL career.There are a lot of players that have donned the black and gold for a season or two and then there are those that are lucky enough to be enshrined in Bruins history by having their number retired and raised to the rafters for all eternity - Rick Middleton is one of them.

BOSTON - The Red Sox flexed their offensive firepower and unloaded on the Yankees, handing New York an ugly 15-5 loss on its first trip to Fenway Park this season on Friday night.From the very get-go, the Yankees were doomed.Boston attacked the scoreboard and New York starter Domingo German, knocking the right-hander out after tagging him for seven earned runs through the first two innings of the game, forcing the Yankees' bullpen to put in some early work, including infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who pitched in the eighth inning.

Outfielder Masataka Yoshida played in Japan for the first seven years of his professional baseball career before joining the Boston Red Sox this season.It's technically his rookie year in Major League Baseball, but the 29-year-old doesn't see himself as a first-year player."I am a little bit older," Yoshida said through interpreter Kei Wakabayashi, per ESPN.

The South Bay Lakers are now in the market for a new head coach, as Phoenix Suns head coach Frank Vogel continued to poach from his former staff by recruiting SBL head coach Miles Simon to join him in Phoenix.Chris Haynes of Turner Sports broke the news on Saturday night:

Both worked under Vogel as assistants with the Los Angeles Lakers.-

It was an incredibly busy day down on the farm for Atlanta's MiLB affiliates as there were a total of seven games played on the day.We've got a lot to get into, so let's dive into Friday's minor league action.(29-38) Gwinnett Stripers 3, (35-31) Nashville Sounds 5


Joe Dunad, DH: 1-4, HR, RBI
Forrest Wall, CF: 2-4, RBI
Braden Shewmake, SS: 2-3, 2B, BB
Michael Soroka, SP: 6 IP, 3 H, ER, 4 BB, 3 K


Unlike their Double-A counterparts, Gwinnett couldn't quite pull out the win in extra innings on Friday.

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Dick Shortz stood beside the No. 1 tee box at Los Angeles Country Club this week and surveyed the remodeled clubhouse and double-decker chalets running down the first fairway."This started as a dream," he said."Now it's a thrill."Shortz, a longtime LACC member and past president, led the effort to bring the U.S. Open to the club for the first time, helping convince a membership otherwise entirely happy to fly under the radar, just as it had for decades.

Start with a club rarely used from the tee box, a 60-degree lob wedge.Set the ball on a tee to maximize spin.And for gosh sake, don't take a full swing.Target?A green long and thin, like an anteater's tongue, flanked on each side by tufts of thick rough that quickly give way to deep bunkers.The pin placement at the 15th hole Saturday at the Los Angeles Country Club was near the front of the green, 81 yards from the tee box, shorter even than any hole on the nearby charming Rancho Park 3-Par Golf Course.

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Christian Pulisic has one year left on his contract with Chelsea, but that doesn't mean he'll play there next season."A lot of things can happen," he said."A lot of things can change."Pulisic is Exhibit A for that.When he moved to the Premier League club from Germany's Borussia Dortmund five years ago, he was considered a key part of Chelsea's future.

The Hershey Bears needed three and a half periods to find their first goal of Saturday night's Game Five in the Calder Cup Finals.They got that goal and it was the only goal in the game as Garrett Pilon sniped over Firebirds netminder Joey Daccord in overtime to give Hershey a 3-2 series lead.Hunter Shepard pitched a shutout at the other end of the ice as the Bears took home just the fifth game in Calder Cup Finals history to go into overtime without a goal.

There has been some explosive buyout news in the NHL, but it doesn't involve the New York Islanders.In fact, nothing noteworthy, newsworthy, or otherwise worth talking about has come up regarding the Islanders.That said, we've got some bits for you fine folks.Around the league, the rumors-or, as Pierre LeBrun likes to call them, "rumblings"-are picking up.

The New York Knicks don't have a 2023 NBA Draft pick-whether that's a first- or a second-rounder-but that has not prevented them from working out some talents.On Friday, June 16, Fairmont State wing Isiah Sanders posted a story on IG announcing his upcoming visit to the Knickerbockers later on the same day via ACD Agency, which legally represents him.

Members of the activist group Rise And Resist gather in a silent protest inside the World Trade Center on September 12, 2019.Erik McGregor / LightRocket / Getty Images This story was originally published at Prism.CW: This story includes descriptions of torture in immigrant detention and mentions of death by suicide At least three facilities operated by the private prison company CoreCivic systematically use torture as retaliation against immigrants who denounce the conditions of detention, according to advocates, attorneys, researchers, and detainees.

Leo has spent at least $182 million during the Biden administration to fund right-wing groups from May 1, 2020, through April 30, 2022.Gremlin / Getty Images Newly obtained documents show that the billion-dollar trust fund given to Leonard Leo - the right-wing attorney and longtime leader the Federalist Society who orchestrated Donald Trump's Supreme Court picks - has dumped at least $411 million into fueling right-wing infrastructure in the U.S. since mid-2020.

The Rangers made a minor move yesterday, re-signing RFA defenseman Zac Jones to a 2 year contract.While re-signing him may not have been a surprise, the timing and duration may have been.The Zac Jones contract shows faith by the Rangers that they have a plan for the defenseman, even if he wasn't an NHL thought last season.

Jakob Junis is a lucky man.By the expression on his face after securing the San Francisco Giants' 7 - 5 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 11th, he knows it.This is the face of a man who bagged a prize trout by throwing a hand grenade in a river.Something so remarkably asinine that it worked.It's not a great way to fish, and probably won't net positive results in 999,999 other attempts, but after the chaos and confusion it evoked died down, Junis showed off his catch.

Bissap Baobab has been an off-again-on-again stalwart in the Mission, once boasting two storefronts - not bad for the only Senegalese place in the neighborhood.The smaller locale was home to a popular performance space, with live music, dancing and dance lessons, a bar, and a restaurant, that fed and entertained multitudes for many years.

As we've come to know, the fullback (and wingback) position at Juventus has been one that hasn't been addressed all that much over the last handful of years.It's basically been the same group of players, who are now very much on the wrong side of 30 or simply not starter-level players anymore ... or both.

WestJet is planning to wind down Sunwing Airlines, integrating the low-cost carrier into its mainline business within two years as part of a plan to streamline operations.In an internal memo obtained by The Canadian Press, Sunwing Airlines president Len Corrado says the change will unlock growth opportunities for the 18-year-old company as well as its employees.

The Washington Wizards may be on the verge of trading Bradley Beal.Shams Charania of Stadium reported that the Wizards are in serious talks to trade Beal to either the Phoenix Suns or the Miami Heat, the two finalists in the race.Developing: Washington is in serious talks with two finalists - Miami and Phoenix - on a Bradley Beal trade, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.

Built on the edge of Biscayne Bay about 100 years ago, the lavish Italian renaissance-inspired Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is one of the most picturesque properties in South Florida.It's also one of the most vulnerable to storm surge and sea rise.After Hurricane Irma in 2017, Vizcaya spent months and millions of dollars to clear debris and repair the gardens - which sit about four feet above sea level - that were filled with five feet of saltwater.

WEST PALM BEACH - Miami Dolphins cornerback Trill Williams was potentially primed for a breakout 2022 season, especially with how many players the Dolphins had go down with injury at the position.But Williams was among the first of Miami cornerbacks to have to miss time.A torn ACL in his left knee suffered in the fourth quarter of a preseason opener at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers cost him his second NFL season.