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PHOENIX — San Diego Padres reliever Mason Miller was bringing the heat Tuesday night.Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. returned the favor.Gurriel crushed a 103.9 mph fastball from Miller into the left-field seats for a two-run homer in the eighth inning, tying the score at 5-all. It was the hardest-hit pitch for a homer since MLB started pitch tracking in 2008.”It’s something that just happened,” Gurriel said through an interpreter. “It’s not that easy.”It was part of a two-homer night for Gurriel. The veteran also hit a two-run shot in the first inning.The hard-throwing Miller was acquired from the Athletics…

Ads on YouTube should be vetted like those on traditional TV to protect users from content such as scams, promotion of diet pills and fake celebrity endorsements, the Lib Dems have said. The party wants more YouTube ads to be screened for potentially harmful content before they appear on the platform and for media regulator Ofcom to issue fines. Last week, Ofcom’s annual report found that YouTube had overtaken ITV to become the UK’s second most-watched media service behind the BBC. A YouTube spokesperson said: “YouTube is not a broadcaster and should not be regulated like one. We have strict…

new video loaded: War Shattered His Face. Technology Helped Reconstruct It.By Marc Santora, Nikolay Nikolov, Daria Mitiuk and Laetitia Vançon•August 6, 2025Volodymyr is a Ukrainian marksman whose face was shattered by a Russian bomb in 2023. After multiple surgeries and titanium implants, he has returned to active duty near the closest point of the front line of the war with Russia. Calling in from there, he describes his recovery to Marc Santora, an international editor for The New York Times.Recent episodes in Behind the ReportingShow more videos from Behind the Reporting

Late-night hosts dig into Donald Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner and an unnerving story about radioactive wasps.Stephen Colbert“You know something? No, you don’t,” said Stephen Colbert on Monday’s Late Show. “Because things cannot be known any more. What you thought you knew is just history.” Especially history, as the Smithsonian removed Trump from the impeachment exhibit in the American history museum.“Oh, now you care about what’s in the American history museum!” Colbert joked to loud boos from the crowd. “Where was that enthusiasm when dad worked so hard to plan the family trip to DC?”The museum…

An unnamed former county cricket coach has been suspended from the sport for nine months after admitting charges of sexual misconduct. The independent cricket discipline panel issued the sanctions on Wednesday but has declined to identify the individual due to “exceptional” health-related circumstances and a “serious risk of harm” if his name were made public.The man admitted five breaches of professional conduct regulations, specifically sending unsolicited sexual images to two junior female colleagues. One one occasion, he attempted to kiss one of the complainants in a club dressing room.Quick GuideHow do I sign up for sport breaking news alerts?ShowDownload the…

What defines a game by Don’t Nod, the French studio behind acclaimed narrative dramas Life Is Strange, Tell Me Why and Lost Records: Bloom and Rage? Dmitri Weideli, an executive producer at the company, has a hard time replying to this question at first, and then settles on an answer that seems rather broad. “We want to make games that matter and that give players a great story that allows them to go through different kinds of emotions,” he says. “We try to diversify the kind of games we create, but at the same time, keep the same spirit.”There’s certainly…

Addis Ababa — The State Department is proposing requiring applicants for business and tourist visas to post a bond of up to 15,000 US dollars to enter the United States, a move that may make the process unaffordable for many. The new requirement targets countries like Malawi and Zambia. Critics have denounced the bond scheme as a ‘legalised shakedown’ that profits from vulnerable, lawful travellers. In a notice to be published in the Federal Register on Tuesday, the department said it would start a 12-month pilot program under which people from countries deemed to have high overstay rates and deficient…

32 The Nigerian Auctioneers Group has taken a bold step to bring order to the auction industry by setting up a National Task Force Committee. This move is aimed at stopping illegal auction activities and making sure that only licensed professionals carry out auctions across the country. The announcement was made in a public statement released by the National Caretaker and Electoral Committee of the Nigerian Association of Auctioneers (NAA). In the statement, the group said the new task force would focus on enforcing the rules of the association, including the constitution, code of conduct, and operational guidelines. According to…

President Donald Trump has warned that he would impose sanctions on Russia if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire.United States special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow, days before the White House’s deadline for Russia to reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face economic penalties.President Donald Trump has warned that he would impose sanctions on Russia if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire in its war on Ukraine before Friday.The White House has not outlined specific actions it plans to take, but Trump has previously threatened to impose “secondary tariffs” against Russia’s trade partners, such as…

An East German waitress with a broken heart and an Iranian YouTuber with a broken arm feel trapped and lonely in their lives, longing for something more. Or maybe for something, or someone, else. You can, cinematically, meet both young women in the East German town of Sangerhausen, the setting of Phantoms of July (Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen, which in English means “Longing in Sangerhausen”), the new film from up-and-coming German auteur Julian Radlmeier (Bloodsuckers – A Marxist Vampire Comedy, Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog). When it world premieres in the competition program of the 78th edition of the Locarno Film…