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After a second apparent assassination attempt, there is widespread concern that the November election will not end well and that American democracy has frayed to the breaking point. Source link

By Grant Brisbee, Andy McCullough and Stephen J. Nesbitt Every week,​ we​ ask a selected group of our baseball​ writers​ — local and national — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results. There are two weeks left in the Major League Baseball regular season. Each …

Thousands of residents of Nysa, in southern Poland, formed a human chain overnight to pass each other sandbags, building a wall along a river embankment to keep the raging waters at bay. Source link

Pete Radovich, the coordinating producer of the UEFA Champions League coverage on CBS Sports, is reflecting on how he came to realise that the network’s Champions League Today studio now owns the global conversation on major nights of European football. “Thierry Henry, in no uncertain terms, says he gets asked …

The former president’s running mate also said that “censorship” lead to political violence. Source link

Before Sidney Crosby’s first home opener at Pittsburgh’s now-extinct Mellon Arena in October 2005, Mario Lemieux walked past a media scrum encircling Crosby and into the players’ lounge, pouring a cup of black coffee. Smirking, he opined about soon being “forgotten.” Then, in an unusually earnest moment, Lemieux predicted Crosby …

Dominique Pelicot, who is accused of inviting strangers to rape his wife while she was drugged and unconscious, took the stand for the first time. Source link

U.S. and European officials are struggling to honor their pledge to use Russian assets to aid Ukraine. Source link

Ursula von der Leyen named her choices for the European Commission as she navigates a host of challenges, including the rise of nationalist forces. Source link

The world’s richest soccer league accused its champion of years of financial violations. A hearing that began this week could tarnish the club’s accomplishments and reshape the competition. Source link