Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani makes baseball history
Player becomes first in MLB to record 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani has made Major League Baseball (MLB) history by becoming the first player in the league’s history to record 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season. Ohtani made three home runs and lifted his tally of steals to 51 in the Dodgers’ 20-4 victory over the Miami Marlins on Thursday. The win sent the Dodgers into the playoffs, a first for Ohtani. “To be honest, I’m the one probably most surprised,” the Japanese player said through a translator of his spectacular performance. “I have no idea where this came from, but I’m glad I performed well today.” It has been an eventful year for Ohtani who joined the Dodgers in December on a 10-year, $700m contract after spending six seasons with the crosstown rival Angels. He is not pitching this season as he recovers from reconstructive surgery on his throwing elbow and has also endured a scandal in which his former friend and interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, stole millions of dollars from him to repay sports gambling debts. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, addressing his players in the clubhouse as they celebrated the victory, noted the achievement. “This is a game that has been played for over 200 years,” Roberts said. “And this is something that has never been done.” Ohtani, 30, tried to keep the focus on the team. “I’m glad that the team won,” he said, admitting that with so much attention focused on his 50-50 pursuit, it “was something I wanted to get over as quickly as possible. “It’s something that I’m going to cherish for a very long time.” Earlier this season, Ohtani became the MLB’s all-time leader in home runs among Japanese-born players when he surpassed the 175 of Hideki Matsui with 222 home runs over the course of his career. Adblock test (Why?)
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Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal to kick-start poll campaign today
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It’s a tight race in the battle to succeed popular swing state Republican governor
NEWFIELDS, N.H. — A new poll in New Hampshire, home to the only competitive gubernatorial election this year, indicates a close race in the battle to succeed popular Republican Gov. Chris Sununu. And the results of the survey and another poll released in the Granite State earlier in the week suggest former President Trump’s standing in New Hampshire in the White House race may be a drag on down-ballot Republicans. According to a University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll released Thursday, Democratic gubernatorial nominee and former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig holds a razor-thin 47%-46% edge over former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, the Republican nominee. A poll released earlier this week from the Saint Anselm College Survey Center also indicated a coin-flip race, with Ayotte holding a slight edge. NEW HAMPSHIRE MAKES PRIMARY PICKS IN 2024 ELECTION Ayotte, thanks to her six years in the Senate and her tenure as a state attorney general before her service on Capitol Hill, has far greater name identification than Craig and has a sizable campaign cash advantage over her rival. But the new polls suggest Trump may be doing Ayotte no favors. WHAT AYOTTE TOLD FOX NEWS ALONG THE NEW HAMPSHIRE CAMPAIGN TRAIL “Kelly’s very popular, but I do think Trump’s a burden,” longtime Granite State-based GOP consultant and former state attorney general Tom Rath told Fox News. Trump came within roughly 3,000 votes of carrying New Hampshire in his 2016 presidential election victory. But four years ago, President Biden topped Trump by over seven points in New Hampshire. The UNH poll indicates Trump is down by 11 points to Vice President Kamala Harris. And the Saint Anselm College survey points to an upper single-digit lead for Harris in New Hampshire. CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST FOX NEWS 2024 ELECTION POLLING “If this were a straight-up election without the presidential race on it, I think Kelly would have a lead outside the margin of error,” argued Rath, who stayed unaffiliated in the 2024 Republican presidential primary race and served as a top adviser to Trump rival and then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the 2016 GOP nomination battle. A New Hampshire-based Republican strategist told Fox News “Trump is definitely an anchor on Kelly and her campaign right now, and she’s the flagship.” The strategist, who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely, noted that Ayotte’s “status as a flagship means everybody’s taking shots at her. There’s not a lot of evidence of activity in New Hampshire by the Trump campaign, so it’s really Kelly versus the world right now.” And another Granite State-based Republican consultant also pointed to meager involvement and resources in New Hampshire coming from the Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. “Kelly’s out fighting this thing all by herself. That’s not a good place to be. You need other people drawing fire,” said the consultant, who also asked for anonymity. “[Trump’s] not focusing on New Hampshire. His bad poll numbers and lack of enthusiasm is dragging the whole ticket down.” Craig, who served three two-year terms steering the Granite State’s largest city, narrowly topped Cinde Warmington, the only Democrat on the state’s five-member Executive Council, to capture their party’s nomination in last week’s state primary. Ayotte, a former state attorney general before winning election to the Senate in 2010, soundly defeated former New Hampshire Senate President Chuck Morse to win the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Sununu, who decided against running for re-election this year after winning four straight two-year terms as New Hampshire governor (New Hampshire and neighboring Vermont are the only states in the nation that elect governors every two years) endorsed Ayotte this summer in her primary race. And Ayotte pledges to continue the Sununu agenda if elected to succeed the popular GOP governor. Ayotte was a rising star in the Republican Party in 2016 with a burgeoning profile on national security as she was running for re-election. But just ahead of the 2016 election, she withdrew her support for Trump over the “Access Hollywood” controversy, when Trump made crude comments about grabbing women without their consent. “I cannot and will not support a candidate for president who brags about degrading and assaulting women,” Ayotte said at the time. Ayotte lost re-election by a razor-thin margin of just over 1,000 votes to then-Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan. Ayotte stayed neutral in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary, but she endorsed Trump in early March, right after he clinched the GOP nomination. Rath, pointing to Ayotte’s backing of Trump, said “her position, which was to embrace him and not create space, I understand why she’s made it, and you take the consequences of it … if that’s the top of the ticket, and you’re the next level down, it’s really hard to get around that problem in a race.” Also working against Ayotte is an avalanche of negative ads that have been running against her all summer, courtesy of national Democratic groups. The attacks have helped to raise Ayotte’s negative ratings in both the UNH Survey Center and Saint Anselm College polls. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Dem lawmakers push bill to restore funding to UN agency with alleged ties to Hamas: ‘So necessary’
A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling for the U.S. to restore funding to a controversial United Nations agency that supports much-needed humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees but faced accusations that some of its employees participated in the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. Speaking at a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday afternoon, Democratic Reps. André Carson of Indiana, Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, among others, said passing H.R. 9649, or the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act, was crucial for helping Gazans. Carson, who sponsored the bill, portrayed a dire situation in Gaza, calling current conditions “absolutely deplorable” and “inhumane.” “One million. That’s the number of estimated Gazans who will not have enough food this month. 700,000. That’s the number of women and girls in Gaza who do not have access to menstrual products or even running water and toilet paper. 100,000. That is the number of Palestinians who have been seriously injured without access to functioning hospitals. 41,000. That’s the number of Palestinians killed by Israel since Oct. 7th,” Carson said. ISRAEL STRIKES HEZBOLLAH TARGETS IN LEBANON AFTER TWO ROUNDS OF DEVICE EXPLOSIONS Jayapal said the UNRWA has, for decades, “played an integral role in supporting the welfare of Palestinian refugees to ensure that they can live with dignity.” “Unfortunately, UNWRA has been under constant attack by those who want to put a stop to this lifesaving work. The stoppage of funding was an unnecessary and dangerous interruption to continue to provide the humanitarian assistant that is so necessary,” she said. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA, has been one of the central agencies distributing aid to Palestinians in Gaza over the course of Israel’s ongoing war with Hamas. It has around 30,000 employees. In January, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres tasked the U.N.’s investigative arm, the Office of Internal Oversight Services, to investigate allegations by Israel that UNRWA staff took part in the Oct. 7 massacre. Nearly 20 UNRWA staff members were investigated, but the U.N. only found enough evidence to dismiss nine people. Still, Israel’s allegations initially led top donor countries — most notably, the U.S. — to suspend funding for UNRWA, causing a cash crunch of $450 million. Since then, all donor countries — except for the U.S. — have resumed funding. IRANIAN NETANYAHU ASSASSINATION PLOT FOILED, ISRAELI MAN CHARGED Schakowsky said it was “shameful” that the U.S. decided to cut funding to UNRWA because only a “tiny number” of the agency’s roughly 30,000 employees were alleged to have been involved in terrorist activities. “Every other country, among those of our allies that had decided to stop funding UNRWA, have changed their mind. So now it is the United States alone,” Schakowsky said. “And the fact that the United States has decided that it’s not going to be there means a danger to the people who are dying, in danger of dying every single day, including children and women and families and everyone for basic needs that they have. And that is shameful. We cannot allow that.” H.R. 9649 has 65 co-sponsors and support from more than 100 human rights organizations. But not everyone is supportive of restoring funding. Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and President of Human Rights Voices, said lawmakers’ support of H.R. 9649 whitewashes the UNRWA’s alleged “connections to terrorism” and sends “the wrong message to Israel and America’s enemies at the wrong time.” “Let’s get the facts straight: UNRWA employees directly participated in October 7 atrocities; 10% of UNRWA employees are reported to have ties to multiple Palestinian terror organizations; a significant percentage of UNRWA’s senior education leadership are members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad,” Bayefsky said in a statement to Fox News Digital. Bayefsky also noted that “UNRWA facilities — including schools — have been used as Hamas command and control centers and weapons depots [and] UNRWA’s Gaza headquarters powered a Hamas data center directly beneath it.” Bayefsky slammed the UNRWA for not having taken, in her view, “serious steps towards accountability or prevention… while at the same time demanding more funding.” “This is not a small drop in a fictional ocean of humanitarianism,” Bayefsky said. “UNRWA’s ties to Palestinian terrorism emanate from raising a generation of Palestinian Arabs on the hatred of Jews in its schools, upending the meaning of a ‘refugee’ to serve as a vehicle to eviscerate the Jewish state. And spreading slanderous lies guaranteed to undermine peaceful coexistence between Palestinians and Israelis to the detriment of all.” Fox News Digital has reached out to the UNRWA for comment on H.R. 9649. The U.N., meanwhile, told Fox News Digital it does “not comment on legislations in countries. But we’ve been clear that UNRWA is the backbone of humanitarian support for Palestinian people and should be supported.”
Show vote: Republicans make political statement in going against Speaker Johnson
It was a “show vote” of a different kind in the House of Representatives Wednesday night. The vote showed which Republicans opposed a combination bill to avoid a government shutdown and require that people prove they are citizens to vote. It’s known as the SAVE Act. “You’ve got to own your votes,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Tex., who advocated the two-step strategy to House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. “I have no problem with my votes or what I’m standing up on or trying to accomplish for the American people.” The vote also showed that Republicans can’t advance any semblance of a spending bill on their own. The vote showed long-standing divisions in the House Republican Conference. Some GOPers voted no for a panoply of reasons. Some oppose interim spending bills – known as “Continuing Resolutions” or “CR’s – to start with. Others opposed attaching the citizenship/voting mandate to a bill like this. Some didn’t think there was any way to implement the citizenship requirement for voting before the election. THE SPEAKER’S LOBBY: THE SAME QUESTIONS ARISE AFTER SECOND ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE TRUMP It’s about the math. And the vote tally revealed that Johnson had little to show for his work. Johnson’s plan crashed to defeat, 220-202. 14 Republicans voted no. Two Republicans voted present. Two Democrats voted aye. And the vote showed that the only way to avoid a government shutdown on October 1 is for Republicans to team up with Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is prepping an interim spending bill which will command bipartisan support. It’s likely the Senate adopts that measure, presenting the House with a take it or leave it proposition. Wednesday night’s vote also showed that former President Trump is intent on forcing a government shutdown. He posted the following on Truth Social: “If Republicans don’t get the Save Act, and every ounce of it, they should not agree to a Continuing Resolution in any way, shape or form.” Mr. Trump accused Democrats of “registering Illegal Voters by the TENS OF THOUSANDS.” The former President then warned that Republicans have “BEEN PUSHED AROUND LONG ENOUGH BY THE DEMOCRATS.” Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., wants to trim spending. But this bill failed to do that, simply renewing all existing funding through late March. He also doubted it was feasible to put the citizenship provision into effect before November 5. Yours truly asked Mills if it was a “mistake” for Johnson to forge ahead with this vote. “I think it is. I think that what we should be doing right now is that we’ve seen where these policy riders, this attempt to quote, unquote ‘jam the Senate,’ has continued to fail,” said Mills. “I’m disappointed with the way the 118th Congress has handled this entire session.” Roy wasn’t in much of a better place than Mills – even though he supported the Speaker’s maneuver. “We’re going to end up with a CR into December because certain people wanted to force this and be able to go out on Twitter and go down to the floor and pound their chest, that somehow, they’ve got the magic solution. But they’ve literally proposed no solution,” said Roy. TOP REPUBLICAN DETAILS LEVEL OF SECRET SERVICE ‘LACK OF COOPERATION’ This was a “show” vote of another form for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. Greene was one of the two GOP members to vote “present” on the bill. To her, the vote was Johnson showing what he might to do next – even though Johnson had a pretty good idea the bill would implode. Greene opposes Johnson’s probable next move: avoiding a government shutdown with the assistance of Democrats. “I think many of us have expected him to do that the entire time. You set up your expectations based on history of action. And that’s what his history of action is,” said Greene. Greene knows of what she speaks. Congress voted on six CRs or “omnibus” spending bills since September 30 last year. Most of those were under the stewardship of Johnson. That’s why some like Greene aren’t impressed with Johnson. This is the same playbook that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., ran last year. Perhaps voting to avoid a government shutdown last fall was the ultimate “show” vote. Shortly after that tally, House Republicans “showed” McCarthy the door. Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, has criticized Johnson’s Speakership. But Davidson characterized Johnson’s decision to forge ahead with the vote on this CR as “smart.” However, Davidson lamented fellow Republicans who wouldn’t go to the mat on this issue. Davidson suggested that other members were involved in “showing” where they stand on the issue. “I’m disappointed that you’ve got what I sort of informally call the surrender caucus. There’s no formal designation of who that is. But it’s a combination of bedwetters who won’t fight for anything. And purists who won’t fight for anything unless it’s perfect,” said Davidson. “What ends up happening is deals keep getting cut with Democrats and everything that gets funded by Congress turns left. I think we’re likely to see another surrender now with a hollow promise to fight later.” “This is a complete failure of the Speaker’s strategy. Again, we weren’t here in the entire month of August. We could have finished our 12 separate appropriation bills,” piled on Greene. VULNERABLE DEM SENATOR’S CLAIMS ABOUT ‘FIGHTING’ LOBBYISTS COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM IN NEW REPORT But House Appropriations Committee Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., said Johnson’s actions since last fall showed him something. Just as Greene observed, Cole noted Johnson’s past performance. And that track record showed that Johnson isn’t interested in government shutdowns. “If he ever wanted to shut down the government, he’s had a lot of opportunities to do that since he’s been Speaker. He’s never let it happen. I don’t think he ever will,” said Cole. “We ran the play. It was the best play. It was the right one. So now we go back to the playbook, drop another play and we’ll come
Fox News Politics: Bossing the Union
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