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Mets bring road skid into matchup with the Cardinals

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

New York Mets (55-66, fourth in the NL East) vs. St. Louis Cardinals (54-67, fifth in the NL Central)St. Louis; Thursday, 7:15 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Mets: Jose Quintana (0-4, 3.03 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 20 strikeouts); Cardinals: Adam Wainwright (3-7, 8.77 ERA, 2.09 WHIP, 39 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Mets -121, Cardinals +102; over/under is 10 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets travel to the St. Louis Cardinals looking to break a seven-game road slide.St. Louis has a 27-34 record in home games and a 54-67 record overall. The Cardinals have a 26-47 record in games when they have given up a home run.New York has a 24-38 record on the road and a 55-66 record overall. Mets pitchers have a collective 4.56 ERA, which ranks 10th in the NL.The teams meet Thursday for the fourth time this season.TOP PERFORMERS: Lars Nootbaar has 19 doubles, a triple and 12 home runs for the Cardinals. Tommy Edman is 13-for-36 with three doubles, a triple and four home runs over the last 10 g...

Dodgers host the Brewers on 9-game home win streak

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

Milwaukee Brewers (65-56, first in the NL Central) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (73-46, first in the NL West)Los Angeles; Thursday, 10:10 p.m. EDTPITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Corbin Burnes (9-6, 3.60 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 146 strikeouts); Dodgers: Lance Lynn (9-9, 5.88 ERA, 1.40 WHIP, 166 strikeouts)FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK MLB LINE: Dodgers -144, Brewers +122; over/under is 8 1/2 runsBOTTOM LINE: The Los Angeles Dodgers will try to keep their nine-game home win streak alive when they take on the Milwaukee Brewers.Los Angeles has a 40-20 record in home games and a 73-46 record overall. The Dodgers have the seventh-ranked team ERA in the NL at 4.26.Milwaukee has a 32-29 record in road games and a 65-56 record overall. The Brewers have a 41-18 record in games when they record eight or more hits.Thursday’s game is the sixth meeting between these teams this season. The Dodgers hold a 4-1 advantage in the season series.TOP PERFORMERS: Freddie Freeman has 45 doubles, two triples, 23 home runs and 84...

WHO faces backlash as it advocates for traditional medicine 

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

The World Health Organization on Thursday called for countries to integrate traditional and complementary medicine into their national health systems, despite significant criticism over its support of practices that some experts see as pseudoscience. “Traditional medicine has made enormous contributions to human health, and has enormous potential,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit today in India.  The head of the U.N. health body said that traditional medicine was “not a thing of the past,” adding that there was growing demand for it and it was important for preventing and treating non-communicable diseases. “We urge all countries to commit to examining how best to integrate traditional and complementary medicine into their national health systems,” he said. Complementary and alternative medicines are not routinely reimbursed by health insurers, with a 2020 study finding that in Europe, countries such as Sweden, ...

Spanish leader Pedro Sánchez wins vital lifeline from Catalan separatists

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

An election repeat in Spain appears less likely after a last-minute deal was reached Thursday regarding control of the Spanish parliament’s main administrative body — providing a boost to socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Shortly after lawmakers were sworn in, the Catalan separatist Junts party gave its votes to Francina Armengol, the socialist candidate for the presidency of the parliament’s bureau, the powerful body which approves the creation of parliamentary groups, authorizes investigative commissions and ultimately determines which bills are taken up by MPs.Junts’ support was secured in an eleventh-hour deal, which was announced just minutes before the parliament began the new legislative session. The agreement comes as a relief for Sánchez, who hopes to remain in power in the fractured political landscape created by last month’s inconclusive national elections and has spent the past weeks attempting to cobble together sufficient support to form a m...

Rollover crash shuts stretch of Route 2 in Littleton

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

A stretch of Route 2 in Littleton was temporarily shut down overnight while police investigating a violent rollover crash.The two eastbound lanes were closed as police were seen assisting with the removal of an overturned SUV and another vehicle that had its roof peeled back.No additional information was immediately available.This is a developing news story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest details.

‘You can feel there’s something brewing in this clubhouse’: Christopher Morel’s walk-off home run caps Chicago Cubs’ wild comeback win

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

Somewhere between first and second base, Christopher Morel tossed his helmet windmill-style in euphoric celebration.By the time he sprinted around third, a mob of his Chicago Cubs teammates and coaches waiting for him at home plate, Morel ripped off his jersey and left it in his dust. His three-run, walk-off homer sparked bedlam at Wrigley Field where 40,869 fans watched the Cubs pull out a 4-3 win over the White Sox in the final game of the City Series.One thought flitted through during Morel’s mad dash around the bases: “I hit a home run — Cubs win!”David Ross started high-fiving bench coach Andy Green when his manager brain kicked in, making sure Morel touched every base.The biggest hit in his young career embodied the late-inning comeback fight the Cubs have often manifested, exemplified during Morel’s at-bat that highlighted his offensive development. His showdown against White Sox closer Gregory Santos represented a rematch from the day before whe...

Iranian filmmaker and his producer face prison for showing film at Cannes without state permission

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian filmmaker and his producer reportedly face prison time and being barred from filmmaking after they showcased a movie at the Cannes Film Festival without government approval, drawing immediate criticism internationally from leading American director Martin Scorsese and others.Director Saeed Roustayi and producer Javad Norouzbeigi traveled to Cannes last year to show “Leila’s Brothers,” competing for the festival’s grand Palme d’Or prize. The film focuses on a family struggling to make ends meet as Iran faces international sanctions and includes sequences showing protests in the Islamic Republic as a series of nationwide demonstrations shook the nation.The film also depicts security forces beating demonstrators protesting Iran’s ailing economy, which has already sparked mass protests and bloody security force crackdowns killing hundreds. The family in it loses all its savings over the rapid depreciation of Iran’s rial currency,...

Fires and other disasters are increasing in Hawaii, according to this AP data analysis

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

KIHEI, Hawaii (AP) — Hurricane-fueled flash floods and mudslides. Lava that creeps into neighborhoods. Fierce drought that materializes in a flash and lingers. Earthquakes. And now, deadly fires that burn block after historic block.Hawaii is increasingly under siege from disasters, and what is escalating most is wildfire, according to an Associated Press analysis of Federal Emergency Management Agency records. That reality can clash with the vision of Hawaii as paradise. It is, in fact, one of the riskiest states in the country.“Hawaii is at risk of the whole panoply of climate and geological disasters,” said Debarati Guha-Sapir, director of the international disasters database kept at the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. She listed storms, floods, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes.Hawaii has been in more danger lately. This month alone, the federal government declared six different fire disasters in Hawai...

Stock market today: Global shares sink after Fed notes dent hopes of rate hikes ending

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

BEIJING (AP) — Global stocks followed Wall Street lower Thursday after notes from a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting dented hopes interest rate hikes are finished.London, Hong Kong, Paris and Seoul declined. Shanghai and Wall Street futures advanced. Oil prices rose.Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 lost 0.8% on Wednesday after minutes from the Fed’s latest meeting suggested board members are unsure what to do after raising their key lending rate to a two-decade high. Traders had hoped the board would decide inflation was under control and last month’s rate hike was the last.Fed officials face a “tough balancing act” between “the risk of an inadvertent over-tightening of policy against the cost of an insufficient one,” said Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank in a report.In early trading, the FTSE 100 in London fell 0.3% to 7,332.01. The CAC 40 in Paris lost 0.4% to 7,233.00 and the DAX in Frankfurt retreated 0.3% to 15,738.25.On Wall Street, futures for the S&P 500 and...

Ukrainian soldiers who were blinded in combat face the new battle of navigating the world again

Published Wed, 25 Dec 2024 07:53:44 GMT

RIVNE, Ukraine (AP) — Along a bustling street in a western Ukrainian city, Denys Abdulin takes his first independent strides since he was severely wounded and blinded while fighting invading Russian troops more than a year ago. The 34-year-old former soldier, wearing black glasses and gripping a white mobility cane, steps onto a more crowded stretch of sidewalk. His movements become tentative and tense. He accidentally blocks the path of a woman approaching an ATM to withdraw cash. Like many other pedestrians, she responds with a compassionate smile and gracefully moves aside. Gradually, Abdulin covers 600 meters (almost 3/10 of a mile), guided by a trainer walking ahead of him with a bracelet of small metal bells. Five other Ukrainian military veterans conquered similar challenges while attending a rehabilitation camp for ex-soldiers who lost their vision in combat. Over several weeks, the men would learn to navigate the city of Rivne, to prepare their own meals and to use public t...