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Facebook Tweet Email Link Among the usual top baseball teams this season, there is another, more unexpected name. The Milwaukee Brewers have some exciting young players but no real stars and their payroll is the tenth lowest of the 30 Major League Baseball teams, about one third of what the Los Angeles Dodgers pay. Yet they are the hottest team in MLB right now, frequently at the top of the power rankings and riding a franchise record streak of 14 consecutive wins, sealed by a 6-5 victory against the Cincinnati Reds in 11 innings on Saturday. Not since the Seattle…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link La Paz, Bolivia Associated Press  —  After a lackluster campaign overshadowed by a looming economic collapse, Bolivians voted on Sunday for a new president and parliament in elections that could see a right-wing government elected for the first time in over two decades. The vote, which could spell the end of the Andean nation’s long-dominant leftist party, is one of the most consequential for Bolivia in recent times – and one of the most unpredictable. In the run-up to Sunday, a remarkable 30% or so of voters remained undecided. Polls showed the two leading right-wing candidates,…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link President Donald Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff — one of three American participants in Friday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — described on Sunday several major agreements reached during the Alaska talks that he said created strong momentum toward a peace agreement with Ukraine. Witkoff told CNN that Putin had signed off on allowing “robust” security guarantees as part of an eventual peace accord, including a provision that would provide for a collective defense of Ukraine by the United States and Europe should Russia attempt another invasion. “We agreed to robust security guarantees that I…

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Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky has arrived in Washington, DC, and will be joined by European leaders when he meets Donald Trump in about 12 hours. Trump is ratcheting up pressure on Ukraine to agree to terms to end the war with Russia, seemingly echoing some of Moscow’s talking points two days after meeting President Vladimir Putin. Late on Sunday, Trump previewed the message he’ll deliver to his White House visitors: Zelensky must agree to some of Russia’s conditions for the war in Ukraine to end. The conditions he referred to — that Ukraine cede Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in…

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Facebook Tweet Email Link At what was billed as an “historic” presidential summit, hastily put together in Alaska on Friday afternoon, the optics were as clear and overshadowing as the vast Chugach mountains glistening over Anchorage in the summer sun. US President Donald Trump literally applauded Vladimir Putin as he walked along a red carpet laid out in his honor by genuflecting US troops. After warmly greeting the Russian president, whose full-scale invasion of Ukraine has so far left more than a million people dead and injured, a US B-2 stealth bomber, flanked by fighter jets, roared overhead. But Putin…

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