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Manny Machado had some words for the All-Star voters on Monday. The Padres star has been far from regular this year, posting a 92 OPS+ in 68 games. In comparison, his teammate Fernando Tatis Jr. he has been nothing short of outstanding since returning from an MLB suspension. The right fielder turned shortstop has produced at an elite level through the first half of the season. Tatis entered Monday second on the Friars in fWAR (3.2), behind only Juan Soto. His 136 wRC+ was also second on the team. And his defense, long seen as a stick to beat him…

PHILADELPHIA – Four men were shot and killed and two children were wounded in a shooting in southwest Philadelphia on Monday, police said. >> Read more trending news 4 men dead, 2 children injured, according to police Update 11:07 pm EDT July 3: During a news conference Monday night, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said there were six shooting victims, with four fatally wounded. He said the dead victims were men, aged 20, 22 and 59. The fourth person, also male and named “John Doe,” was “between 16 and 21 (age),” Outlaw said. The other victims were boys, ages 2…

Former member of the Sovereignty Council and leader of the Freedom Forces, Muhammad al-Faki, said a delegation of Sudanese political, civil and professional leaders met with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at the presidential palace today, Monday 3 july Related: Russia is interested in normalizing the situation in Sudan The Sudanese civilian delegation included Yasser Arman, the leading figure in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM). He was the Deputy Secretary General of the SPLM and Muhammad Al-Faki, among others. According to what Al-Faki published on his Facebook page, the Sudanese civilian delegation thanked President Yoweri Museveni for holding this meeting…

Common Council candidate India Walton holds a campaign sign near the Delavan Grider Community Center on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. The former mayoral candidate lost her primary race to Zeneta Everhart. Joshua Bessex/Buffalo News Analysis: Reflect on a Primary Day where the progressives did not prevail Some questions, observations and reflections on last week’s Primary Day: Tuesday was not a good night for progressive and left-leaning Democrats: India Walton, Matt Dearing, Eve Shippens and Kathryn Franco lost, and lost big. But it was a very good night for the Buffalo Democratic establishment, former incumbents and party headquarters: Zeneta Everhart, Leah…

Since last year’s July 4 parade mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois has moved rapidly on gun control measures. The most controversial has been the ban on so-called assault weapons. Immediately after Gov. JB Pritzker signed the Illinois Community Protection Act into law in January, gun rights advocates began filing lawsuits. The Illinois State Rifle Association challenged the ban a week after the new law went into effect, joining the Second Amendment Foundation in a lawsuit. “Governor Pritzker signed draconian legislation that crushes the rights of more than 2.4 million law-abiding firearm owners in Illinois,” ISRA Executive Director Richard Pearson…

Stevie Ray Dallimore, an actor and teacher, had been running the theater program for a private boys’ school in Chattanooga for a decade, but he had never faced a school year like this. A proposed production of “She Kills Monsters” at a neighboring girls’ school that would have included her students was rejected because of gay content, she said. A “Shakespeare in love” at the girls’ school that would have counted with its boys was rejected for cross-dressing. His school’s production of “Three Sisters,” the Chekhov classic, was rejected because it dealt with adultery and there were concerns that some…

CNN — President Joe Biden announced Monday his intention to appoint a former appointee under former President Donald Trump with a controversial past in Latin America to the bipartisan US Public Diplomacy Advisory Commission. Elliott Abrams, who has served in three Republican administrations, most recently served as the Trump administration’s special envoy to Iran and Venezuela, where he was then tasked with leading the campaign to replace Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro . The privileged Republican’s long foreign policy history is marked by a guilty plea in 1991 to withholding information about the Iran-Contra affair that cost him. two misdemeanorstwo years…

Senegal’s President Macky Sall has said he will not run for a third term in elections next year, ending years of uncertainty over his political future that helped fuel deadly protests in opposition last month. In a speech broadcast live on his official Facebook page, Sall argued on Monday that Senegal’s constitution would have allowed his candidacy despite being elected for a second term in 2019. “There have been many speculations and comments about my eventual candidacy in these elections,” Sall said in his speech. “The 2019 term was my second and last term.” “My decision, after careful consideration ……