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Yoshinobu Yamamoto chewed up and spit out the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series, pitching a complete game for the Los Angeles Dodgers en route to a 5-1 win; Los Angeles now leads the series, 2-0. Simply put: the right-hander was sensational on Tuesday night.Here’s Yamamoto’s dominant Game 2 start by the numbers.1A: Jackson Chourio hit the first pitch that Yamamoto threw over the right-field wall, and it would be the only run that the Dodgers’ ace gave up.1B: On that note, Chourio’s home run was also the only extra-base hit that the Brewers amassed…
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been “taken over” by unrest. Foxborough, Massachusetts, home to the NFL’s New England Patriots and about 30 miles from Boston, is set to stage matches as the U.S. cohosts the 2026 World Cup with Mexico and Canada. Trump was asked about Boston’s mayor, Michelle Wu, a Democrat whom he called “intelligent” but “radical left.” “We could take them away,” Trump said of the World Cup games. “I…
— Industry expert evaluates alternative sterilization methods — BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Jim Kasic of Boulder Sterilization will be a featured speaker at next week’s Sterilization Summit USA 2025 in Anaheim, California. Kasic is president and CEO of the Boulder BioMed family of companies, including Boulder Sterilization. Boulder BioMed is a group of expert contract consulting businesses providing all the services life sciences companies need to get their products to market. Boulder Sterilization provides quick-turn ethylene oxide (EO) and chlorine dioxide (CD) sterilization, final assembly and packaging services. Speaker topic: Alternative sterilization methods Kasic, a medical device sterilization expert,…
GENEVA — GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations’ food aid agency said Wednesday that severe funding cuts from its top donors are hurting its operations in six countries and warned that nearly 14 million people could be forced into emergency levels of hunger. The World Food Program, traditionally the U.N.’s most-funded agency, said in a new report that its funding this year “has never been more challenged” — largely due to slashed outlays from the U.S. under the Trump administration and other leading Western donors. It warned that that 13.7 million of its food aid recipients could be forced into…
Baker Mayfield’s brilliance. Justin Fields’ debacle. Justin Herbert’s magic. Josh Allen’s regression. We were treated to the full experience of NFL quarterbacking this past week. That’s why we have big risers, including a new No. 1(!), and big fallers in this week’s edition of the QB Stock Market, where we monitor the fluctuations of quarterbacks throughout the season. Our power ranking of the NFL’s starting passers takes into account their most recent individual performance along with their full season and team success. Previous: Preseason, Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6Let’s dive into the latest pecking order: Yes, I’ll say it: Baker Mayfield has been…
(Corrects spelling of Matt Hershenson’s name in paragraph 4)By Stephen NellisSAN FRANCISCO :Vertical Semiconductor, a startup spun out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Wednesday said it raised $11 million in funding to commercialize chip technology that can deliver electricity to artificial intelligence servers more efficiently.Vertical makes chips out of a material called gallium nitride, an alternative to silicon which is becoming central to an effort led by chip designer Nvidia to rework auxiliary chips inside AI data centers to direct electricity and convert it into the form needed by Nvidia’s chips. Those data centers currently consume as much power as some…
[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump is ready to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping and officials from both countries are working to set up a meeting, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday.Bessent told CNBC that the US did not want to escalate a conflict with China, and did not want to decouple from the second-largest economy in the world. He said it was due to trust between Trump and Xi that the trade conflict between the two countries has not escalated further. REUTERS
Having a tough time following along with the MLB postseason? Just want to relive the best moments?Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:Dodgers go up 2-0The Brewers are in trouble. It’s not trouble they can’t get out of just yet, but still: being down 2-0 to the Dodgers in the NLCS does not bode well for Milwaukee’s World Series hopes. Things started out well enough in Game 2, with Jackson Chourio going yard on the first pitch he…
Beijing’s latest currency manoeuvre marks a departure from the stance that it deployed during the last trade war[BEIJING] China ramped up its support for the renminbi on Wednesday (Oct 15), underscoring its commitment to foreign-exchange stability as a trade war with the US showed few signs of letting up.The People’s Bank of China set the renminbi’s reference rate at 7.0995 per US dollar, the strongest level in almost a year and past the 7.1 mark that authorities had sought to defend since September. The move helped boost the offshore renminbi while weighing on the US dollar.Beijing’s latest currency manoeuvre marks…
WASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making this government shutdown unlike any the nation has ever seen, giving his budget office rare authority to pick winners and losers — who gets paid or fired, which programs are cut or survive — in an unprecedented restructuring across the federal workforce.As the shutdown enters its third week, the Office and Management and Budget said Tuesday it’s preparing to “batten down the hatches” with more reductions in force to come. The president calls budget chief Russ Vought the “grim reaper,” and Vought has seized on the opportunity to fund Trump’s…