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This week in SF Giants baseball: What to know heading into first meeting with Rockies, weekend set with Cubs

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

It’s June, and the Giants still have an NL West opponent they have yet to see this season. A new oddity of this year’s balanced schedule, that ends this week, though, as the Giants head to Coors Field for three games against the Rockies, starting Tuesday.The week aheadHeading into their first meeting this season with the Giants, the Rockies have won three of their past four series. Since an eight-game losing streak in mid-April, they have played .500 ball for nearly a two-month stretch now, 21-21 since April 20. Like the Giants, the Rockies are off Monday after traveling back to Denver from Kansas City, where they took two of three.The Giants make a quick pitstop back in San Francisco this weekend for three games with the Chicago Cubs between returning from Denver and jetting off to St. Louis on Monday. It’s the end of a 10-game West Coast swing for the Cubs, who are looking to get back on track after a 10-18 record in May.Pitching probablesTuesday, 5:40 p.m. PT &#...

Column: Penske rolls into Le Mans on top of motor sports seeking evasive 1st win

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

LE MANS, France (AP) — Roger Penske won the Indianapolis 500 on a Sunday and celebrated Josef Newgarden’s thrilling win as if it was the first for Team Penske, not a record-stretching 19th for The Captain.He watched on his cellphone as Ryan Blaney won the Coca-Cola 600 on a Monday, streaming the rain-delayed NASCAR race during the Indy 500 banquet. As any avid race fan would do.Blaney’s victory gave Penske a resume builder that somehow had evaded his illustrious career: Team Penske swept the two Memorial Day weekend races in the U.S. in the same year.There was zero time to bask in his press clippings. Penske was in Detroit by Tuesday to oversee the return of downtown street racing for the first time in 32 years — a three-day festival for a reenergized city as Penske’s gift to his adopted hometown.The whirlwind week closed with a sold-out Sunday race in which Team Penske driver Will Power finished second, but Penske’s engine is still running at full throttle. ...

Too much information? Jason Isbell believes opening your life to fans builds a stronger bond

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — If Jason Isbell is keeping many more secrets, it’s hard to imagine what they might be.The singer-songwriter and his wife, fellow musician Amanda Shires, open their lives for public consumption in a manner unusual even to artists who mine their own world for material. Through interviews and a film out this spring, they have documented a rough patch in their marriage and how Isbell’s drinking almost destroyed his career before recovery redeemed it.The sharing gets so raw that when Shires reveals that she made Isbell take a test for sexually transmitted diseases before she slept with him, you’re tempted to shout, “too much information!”To Isbell, it’s a necessary part of the job.“If I’m holding back part of myself from the audience, I’d be within my right to do that,” he said. “But I don’t think the connection would be as strong. For me, it’s more important to connect with people on an honest level than it is for me to con...

Lawsuit filed by resident injured in Iowa building collapse alleges city, owner, others failed to warn tenants of risk

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Lawsuit filed by resident injured in Iowa building collapse alleges city, owner, others failed to warn tenants of risk.Source

Prominent figure in German far-right party charged over alleged Nazi slogan

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent figure in the far-right Alternative for Germany party has been charged over his alleged use in a 2021 speech of a slogan used by the Nazis’ SA stormtroopers, German prosecutors said Monday.Prosecutors in the eastern city of Halle said that Björn Höcke was charged with public use of a symbol of an unconstitutional organization. Höcke, an influential figure on the hard right of Alternative for Germany, heads his party’s branch in the neighboring eastern state of Thuringia.Höcke is accused of ending a speech to some 250 people in Merseburg in May 2021 with the words “Everything for Germany!” Prosecutors charge that he was aware of the origin of the phrase as an SA slogan. In a statement, they said Höcke’s lawyers had denied that his words had any “criminal relevance.”Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has come under increasing scrutiny from Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, which has placed its Thuringia branch under formal observat...

AI a new reason for white-collar layoffs

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — The nation is facing the kind of layoffs it did in the Great Recession, though Colorado isn't high on the list. Career placement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. released a May report on national job cuts and layoff information. Detailed by Fortune, the report records the biggest year for layoffs in the last decade except for the first portion of 2020. These Colorado companies are planning mass layoffs, records show U.S.-based companies have announced 417,500 cut jobs. This is the highest number of layoffs from January to May of any year since 2009, with the exception of 2020.The tech industry has had the most layoffs this year, while the retail, financial, health care and services industries followed. Denver employees among the most anxious about layoffs A little less than half the jobs were cut because the business was closing for market or economic reasons. For the first time, however, artificial intelligence is cited as a r...

Crews repair broken water main in Pembroke Pines

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

Crews responded to a water main break in Pembroke Pines, which caused a road closure in the area. After five hours, crews were able to patch up the broken water mane. The breakage occurred at 6900 SW 3rd St. which caused flooding in the area, Monday morning. Due to the break, the Pembroke Pines Police Department announced that Southwest Third Street, between 70th Avenue and 68th Avenue, was blocked off. Live video footage showed the water bubbling in a significant crack on the street. The local water department was also on the scene as they worked to stop the leak. Residents in the area may be advised to not drink the tap water as the water could be contaminated.

CNN Exclusive: New Hampshire GOP Gov. Sununu says he will not run for president in 2024

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

(CNN) — New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a frequent Republican critic of former President Donald Trump, said Monday in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Dana Bash that he will not seek the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.Sununu’s decision further defines the GOP’s 2024 field and means there won’t be a home-state contender in New Hampshire, leaving the Republican contest in the first-in-the-nation primary state wide open.The governor, a popular figure in the Granite State, was reelected to a fourth two-year term in the fall. After his victory, he declined to rule out a presidential campaign for months, telling Bash last fall that the Republican Party is “clearly moving on” from Trump.Sununu has also said the Republican Party’s messaging needs to be more inspirational and less combative, a tonal shift from several prominent GOP politicians.“I think the Republican Party as a whole just wants to get out and fight as opposed to saying, ‘Look, let’s remember what we’re about – limite...

Miami Heat are on a comeback run like few others in this year’s NBA playoffs

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — The easiest way to explain what the Miami Heat are doing in the comeback department during these playoffs is simply to put up their numbers against the rest of the league.When facing a deficit of at least 12 points this postseason:— The Heat are 7-6.— The rest of the NBA is 6-59. Combined.“Biggest thing for us, we had the will and we had the belief,” Heat center Bam Adebayo said. “And we keep finding ways to win.”Doesn’t matter the opponent, either. Milwaukee, New York, Boston and now Denver in the NBA Finals all have found themselves on the wrong end of a Heat rally.Miami rallied from 15 points down to beat top-seeded Milwaukee in Game 4 and then from 16 down to win the clinching Game 5; from 12 down to win Game 1 over New York and from 14 down in Game 6 to eliminate the Knicks; erased a 13-point deficit in Game 1 at Boston and then a 12-point deficit to win Game 2 over the Celtics — and now, a 15-point comeback to win Game 2 of the NBA Finals over Denver.Sunday night’...

Is Outlook down? Thousands of users report problems with Microsoft’s email platform

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:32:41 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Microsoft Outlook users reported issues with accessing and using the email platform Monday morning.Microsoft 365 outage and problem reports peaked at almost 18,000 shortly after 11 a.m. Eastern Monday morning, according to outage tracker Downdetector. Reports have appeared to decline since then.Most of the reports expressed issues with Outlook. Many users of Microsoft’s emailing platform shared frustration on social media, with some noting they were unable to sign into or load their accounts.The company said that it was “investigating an issue with accessing Outlook on the web” in a Twitter thread posted on its Microsoft 365 Status account — and later added that a “downstream impact” was also identified for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business.Shortly after noon ET, Microsoft 365 Status said it had “halted an ongoing deployment and are monitoring services to see if that provides relief to the environment.”The Associat...