Author: Michael

On Monday night, Corey Seager looked like himself again. Which is to say that the Rangers shortstop hit a home run and reacted with near indifference, calmly setting down his bat, not so much as a smile on his face. He jogged around the bases with an air of obligation that would be more befitting someone walking up to an appointment at the DMV than hitting a moonshot in the World Series.
Seager’s two-run shot in the third inning helped push the Rangers to a 3–1 victory over the Diamondbacks. It puts Texas up in the series two games to one. And it marks a return to form for Seager.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken will make the case Tuesday that the United States should immediately send aid to Israel and Ukraine, testifying at a Senate hearing as the administration’s massive $105 billion emergency aid request for conflicts in those countries and others has already hit roadblocks in the divided Congress. President Joe Biden’s Cabinet secretaries will be advocating for the foreign aid to a mostly friendly audience in the Senate, where majority Democrats and many Republicans support tying aid for the two countries together.

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As the clock ticked down to the Nov. 1 deadline Pakistan set for undocumented migrants to leave the country, Muhammad Rahim boarded a bus from Karachi to the Afghan border. “We’d live here our whole life if they didn’t send us back,” said the 35-year-old Afghan national, who was born in Pakistan, married a Pakistani woman and raised his Pakistan-born children in the port city – but has no Pakistani identity documents.

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U.S. equity long/short hedge funds have cut to six year lows the level at which swings in the S&P 500 affect their profits or losses, as portfolio managers are taking less directional bets, data from hedge fund research firm PivotalPath showed. Hedge funds are increasingly adopting a more defensive strategy as concerns about the macroeconomic environment have made making directional bets on the stockmarket harder, PivotalPath said.

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The Raiders‘ offense was disappointing during Monday night’s loss to the Lions, and star wide receiver Davante Adams couldn’t hide his frustrations along the sideline late in the game.
Toward the end of the fourth quarter, Adams was spotted by the broadcast looking infuriated. The 30-year-old ripped off his helmet and smashed it on the ground by the bench before taking a seat, where he put his head in his hands and stared down at the ground.

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