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Can you boil an entire group down to one player?Pool B features three Asian teams, with Japan, South Korea, and China joined by Australia and the Czech Republic.The Japanese side opens the tournament as the top-ranked team in the world, with Korea ranked fourth.The pool features a plethora of major and minor-league names, but the big one is of course Shohei Ohtani.

This week we talked to some Pulitzer winners, debated which TV finale is the best, and watched a Monsoon Wedding.Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to and what you should check out this weekend.Jury Duty Ronald Gladden and James Marsden in Jury Duty / Amazon Freevee Amazon Freevee Jury Duty is a reality TV series.

Jackson Mahomes, the younger brother of Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes, was booked into jail Wednesday on aggravated sexual battery charges.The alleged sexual assault took place at Aspen's Restaurant and Lounge in Overland Park, Kan., in late February.Jackson Mahomes, 22, was charged Tuesday in Johnson County, Kan., with three counts of aggravated sexual battery and one count of battery.

"So, here's my bit of history about this bar," said "Dana" as we approached The Flying Pig Bistro & Pub on South Van Ness Avenue, off 16th Street."Around 20 years ago I worked just over there ..." she gestures back past Mission, "and The Flying Pig was one of the only places in the city that offered free WiFi.

Here's a look at the life of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.Birth date: July 6, 1946 Birth place: New Haven, Connecticut Birth name: George Walker Bush Father: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States Mother: Barbara (Pierce) Bush Marriage: Laura (Welch) Bush (November 5, 1977-present) Children: Barbara and Jenna (November 25, 1981) Education: Yale University, B.A., 1968; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1975 Military: Texas Air National Guard, F-102 fighter pilot, 1968-1970 Religion: Methodist After John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush is the second president to be the son of a previous president.

Senior military officials from the United States and China used a conference in Singapore to push competing visions of Asia's future security: a U.S.-led safety net of well-armed partnerships versus a region where China is the center of a new international order.The U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III and officials from allied countries argued implicitly or explicitly that Russia's invasion of Ukraine showed that Asia should urgently embrace a network of U.S.-led alliances to tame the growing might of China.

When I was growing up, Gordon Lightfoot songs played on the living room stereo, on the radio in the kitchen and in the family car and on my dad's guitar so continuously that it felt like the Canadian singer-songwriter, who died in a Toronto hospital on Monday at 84, lived with us.[Read: Gordon Lightfoot, Hitmaking Singer-Songwriter, Is Dead at 84] Image Nature and wilderness were central themes of Gordon Lightfoot's music.Credit...Reuters I talked this week with my mom and dad, who are 82, about the musician who made the soundtrack to our lives.

From left, in 1972, Chris Copping, Mick Grabham, Alan Cartwright, Keith Reid, Gary Brooker and B.J. Wilson of Procol Harum.(Brian Cooke/Getty Images)Keith Reid, who wrote the lyrics for "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and about 100 subsequent songs by the British band Procol Harum, died March 23 at a hospital in London.

Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mind-set that led to catastrophe in World War II, died on March 3.He was 88.His publisher, Kodansha, announced the death on Monday.

In the early 1960s, after a number of summers renting on Martha's Vineyard, Jamie Bernstein's family bought a vacation home on a wooded hill in West Redding, Conn.There, 9-year-old Jamie and her younger brother, Alexander, devised various games of make-believe, chief among them a fantasy that they lived the same sort of low-key, small-town existence as the characters on their favorite television shows.

The Bears signed the final four of 10 draft picks they made last weekend.The team announced the signings of Oregon linebacker Noah Sewell (fifth round), Minnesota cornerback Terell Smith (fifth round), Kennesaw State defensive tackle Travis Bell (seventh round) and Stanford safety Kendall Williamson (seventh round).

When Jalen Neal got the news he would be called into his first training camp with the men's national soccer team, he was told to keep quiet until the roster was announced.That wasn't a problem, he said."I told my close family and stuff," he said."But otherwise, no.I'm pretty good with private information."

Moroccan Rachid El Morabity has withdrawn from the 2023 Marathon des Sables, after being assessed a three-hour time penalty for receiving outside assistance.Rachid El Morabity, age 41, is a nine-time winner of the event.The Marathon des Sables (MDS) is a 250-kilometer (150 miles), seven-day, five-stage race held annually in the Sahara Desert in Morocco.

Twenty-nine-year-old Chris Codjoe has lived in New Cross pretty much his entire life.This patch of south-east London has been his home for as long as he can remember and it always will be, at least while it remains feasible.Although, as it stands, no one can tell him how long that's going to be.Codjoe lives in the same spacious two-up-two-down maisonette that he and his younger brother were raised in by their parents: a solid monument to a different, sturdier era of London housebuilding.

The bundled masses, dressed in Rutgers red, crossed the Hudson River something that any true Jerseyite does begrudgingly, even when the temperature isn't hovering in the single digits.They filed into Madison Square Garden on Saturday morning, filling the arena nearly up to the Harry Styles banner in the rafters.

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Carmen Marchany knows the three-day strike that has shuttered Los Angeles public schools is another blow to her already unstable finances.But the special education assistant still joined her colleagues on the picket line Wednesday morning outside South Gate High School, holding signs and chanting in the rain.

Lent is with us, and so is the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis's ascent to the papal throne an appropriate conjunction, since these are days of tribulation for his papacy.There is the two-front war that Rome finds itself fighting on doctrine and liturgy, trying to squash the church's Latin Mass traditionalists while more gently restraining the liberal German bishops from forcing a schism on Catholicism's leftward flank.

Growing up, it was always a treat to go to Yankee Stadium.I grew up in Rockland County, New York as a child, about 45 minutes away.When I was 12-years-old, we moved further up north to Orange County.Despite the distance, our family would make a trip every now and then to the Bronx.It wasn't an annual tradition, but it felt like we were there enough to know our way around the stadium, and just the right amount to make it feel special.

Last Sunday, Patrick Mahomes led the Kansas City Chiefs to a victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII.The win gave Mahomes his second title, and along with his two MVPs, has cemented him as on a track to be one of the all-time NFL greats.However, in college and when he began his professional career, one of the most discussed things about him was a fun fact.

Nine months ago, Sue Gee moved into the Gaia Temple, a women's community in Melbourne and learned to be by herself for the first time in her life.We are speaking via video call and she pans around the statuettes and icons.I'm living with goddesses galore, she says.There are fewer mortals just Gee and two other residents.

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter.Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more.When archaeologists uncovered the burial site of two brothers who lived during the 15th century BC in Israel, they were surprised to discover that one of them had brain surgery shortly before he died.

Ray Herbert, a 1962 All-Star Game winning pitcher who threw batting practice for his hometown Detroit Tigers for decades after retiring, died peacefully in Plymouth, Michigan, five days after his 93rd birthday.Herbert started his big league career with Detroit in 1950 and pitched for four teams over 14 seasons.

Hello and happy Tuesday, San Francisco Giants fans.'Tis the season for minor news.Sometimes even Minors news.In this case, both.The Giants have fed us a little bit of news in the last few days, as they continue to prep for their March 30 opener against Aaron Judge (not to be confused with Arson Judge, who is on the Giants).

A court in Germany convicted two Afghan men Thursday of killing their 34-year-old elder sister because they didn't agree with her lifestyle.The Berlin regional court found the men, aged 28 and 24, guilty of murder for killing the mother of two in July 2021.Her body was later found in a suitcase buried near where the older brother lived in Bavaria.

The 905 taught the Herd how to make poutine on their promotional Curd Night, with more late-game three-point shooting than Ron Harper, the bomb sparker ...

In the clairvoyant words of the late Lamont Coleman (a.k.a.Big L), the Wisconsin Herd in 2023 would need "more game than Ron Harper" to beat the 905.

As Elian Soto celebrated his 17th birthday with family and friends today, the younger brother of Juan Soto should be following in his older brother's footsteps and signing with the Washington Nationals as an IFA (international free agent) in five days.We certainly got to see a lot of the younger Soto for years when he was seen at Nationals Park and Home Run Derbys, and the World Series.

The Duke of Sussex said he is publishing his memoirs because he doesn't know how staying silent is ever going to make things better.In a trailer for an ITV interview with Tom Bradby, Harry justified his upcoming book, Spare, in which he claimed his brother William physically attacked him.An extract from the book, published in the Guardian newspaper, described a confrontation at his London home in 2019, where he claims the Prince of Wales grabbed Harry's collar and knocked him to the floor, ripping his necklace and shattering a dog bowl under his back.