MORE: Second half predictions | Seven who impressed at Futures Game | AL’s best under 25 Though the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, Xu, nicknamed “Itchy”, received a $10,000 signing bonus. Originally recruited as a pitcher, the 19-year-old outfielder and first baseman is expected to be introduced to the team at the Orioles spring training facility in Sarasota, Fla., this summer before going back to China to complete high school....

Sunyei was raised by the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (SWT) in Kenya after being orphaned as a baby. As with many elephants at the conservation center, she was rehabilitated into one of the ex-orphan wild herds once fully grown in 2009. Ex-orphan herds with calfs tend to stay in close proximity to the units, whereas ones with male elephants will often roam further afar. In 2017, Sunyei became a mother herself and returned to the trust on the very same day to “say hello” to her beloved head keeper Benjamin, who hand-raised her....

Orthodox Jews protested for a second night on Wednesday, having held a protest the previous night that included a staged burning of a pile of face masks. They were protesting restrictions imposed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in response to a recent surge of COVID-19, with affected areas having large populations of Orthodox Jews. A video of Tuesday’s demonstration shared to Twitter shows a large group, some carrying Trump campaign flags, circling and dancing with arms locked as music plays on a Brooklyn street....

George Orwell’s axiom that insincerity is the enemy of clear language probably explains the disconnection between political language and reality today. When President Clinton said in his Inaugural Address that government is not the problem and government is not the solution but the people are the solution, he may actually have thought his unintelligible utterance expressed something profound. Certainly his sentiment, although a perfect intellectual vacuum, may also have been a perfect overture for the second term of a president who may be remembered, with difficulty, as (in words once applied to a British politician) ““having risen without a trace....

Terry leads Chelsea title party Costa, 28, is widely expected to make a move from the Premier League champions in the off-season, having been heavily linked to Chinese Super League (CSL) side Tianjin Quanjian. Oscar, who made the move to Shanghai in January, said he would be thrilled to see Spain international Costa join him in China. “It’s hard for me to give specific advice to Costa. The only thing I can tell him is that I quite enjoy my life in China,” Oscar told CCTV-5....

The Golden Boy is already talking trash about the UFC star, too. “I still have it in me,” de la Hoya said Monday on “Golden Boy Radio with Tattoo and the Crew” (per ESPN.com). “I’ve been secretly training, secretly training. I’m faster than ever and stronger than ever. I know I can take out Conor McGregor in two rounds. I’ll come back for that fight. Two rounds. Just one more [fight]....

I’ve been covering the Oscars race on Newsweek’s Parting Shot Podcast, our new weekly culture podcast. On the latest episode—available today on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts—I had two essential conversations: first about the red carpet with Esther Zuckerman, author of Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical, and Scandalous Oscar Fashion, and then about who will win with entertainment reporter Cameron Scheetz....

But the song was not snubbed by the Academy, it was not even submitted for consideration. Disney decided to submit Encanto’s ballad “Dos Oruguitas” instead. While Encanto debuted in theaters Thanksgiving weekend, it did not hit streaming until a month later. Once on Disney+, “Bruno” took off. The song has nearly 125 million streams on Spotify and is currently sitting at the top of the Billboard Top 100. It has surpassed Aladdin’s “A Whole New World” as Disney’s longest-running No....

Common Risk Factors Osteoarthritis isn’t caused by only one specific factor. Instead, there are risk factors that make you more susceptible to developing osteoarthritis in one, or in several, joints. Age Osteoarthritis is connected to wear and tear of joints and is common as people age. Most often, it affects people age 40 and up. However, it does affect people under 40, even children, if a person has other risk factors for OA....

Most coronaviruses generally only cause mild to mid-range symptoms in infected humans, exhibiting as respiratory tract infections. The immune system uses white blood cells known as T-cells to help fight off those infections. The novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 4 million people in the U.S. alone, is in the same family as the common cold. T-cells may help the body fend off the disease, even if an individual has not been exposed to the novel coronavirus....

The third-year Wizards wing made “Not Top 10” lists everywhere last week when he got caught sleeping on defense against the Bulls. On Thursday, Porter looked to redeem himself with a strong alley-oop finish The only problem? He got rejected by the rim.

It’s not clear exactly what the White House will do. But it’s obvious that the $300 million USAir/British Airways deal is a lightning rod for mounting anxiety in the industry. Airline woes are nothing new. But U.S. carriers seem to see their skies darkening, even as the economy brightens. Some critics say the industry simply needs a new attitude, maybe modeled on some of the successful upstarts like Southwest Airlines....

The first time Smith saw the Palacio, there was nothing inside but a light bulb hanging down and a VW Beetle sitting in an empty lobby. He put both building and Beetle in his new thriller, “Havana Bay” (Random House). As you stand there beside him, you think, well sure, anyone could see the possibilities here. All Smith did was find it first and then lead you right to it....

The issue came to a head when NATO foreign ministers met in Budapest this week for their semiannual session-the first such gathering held in a formerly communist country, and the first attended by the new U.S. secretary of State, Colin Powell. It was a critical preparatory meeting for Bush’s first encounter with NATO leaders, set for Brussels in mid-June. Instead of pointing the way to a harmonious summit, the talks in the Hungarian capital showed that the alliance is increasingly clouded by Bush’s new defense strategy....

Sharing her shocking story with Mumsnet’s AIBU (Am I Being Unreasonable?) forum on June 20, LMCOA explained that she was trying to return a pair of jeans at her local supermarket when the situation occurred. In her post, she wrote: “I smiled, handed them over to the cashier and said ‘Could I please have a refund on these, unfortunately they don’t fit.’ “She took them, laughed and said ‘You should lose weight then....

The office told the New York Times that of those, 914 worked for the Department of Education and 101 for the city’s Housing Authority. The terminations came despite several other U.S. cities moving to reduce COVID-19 regulations. The mandate, introduced by Adams’ predecessor Bill de Blasio in October, required the employees to get vaccinated by February 11, according to New York’s WCBS-TV. The Times reported at the time of their termination, all but two of the employees had already been put on unpaid leave....

Israeli police said they will continue to apprehend those suspected of “riots” and “bring them to justice.” They added that “the campaign is a direct continuation of police activity in the past two weeks and more than 1,550 suspects have been arrested while about 150 indictments have been filed,” the Daily Sabah said. The Arab territories in Israel were the site of numerous protests against Israel’s military attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem....

At least 27 people are confirmed to have died in the incident, which began on the fourth floor of an eight-story building in the major commercial area of Kitashinchi, the city’s fire department said. Local media reports suggest a man was seen walking around the building with a bag of liquid that may have been flammable shortly before the incident. A female outpatient told NHK that she saw the man, while another person said the fire started soon after he put the bag, which was leaking, on the floor....

The Taliban rapidly regained control of Afghanistan this month, retaking the capital Kabul last week—two weeks before the scheduled end of the U.S. withdrawal. Biden has faced substantial criticism for the chaotic end to the two-decade-long war, the longest in U.S. history. But the president has doubled-down in defense of the withdrawal, arguing that the U.S. had fully achieved its objectives in Afghanistan. “We the undersigned are resolute in our support of President Biden’s decision to end the war in Afghanistan,” the thousands of veterans said in an open letter, which was published Friday by the political action committee VoteVets....

The nuclear bomb dropped by the United States devastated the Japanese city, destroying and burning around 70 percent of all buildings while also killing around 80,000 people immediately, with an estimated 60,000 more dying by the end of the year due to the effects of radiation and other injuries. The horrific impact of the bomb was exacerbated by the fact that more than 90 percent of Hiroshima’s doctors and nurses were killed or injured by the bomb, while the blast left 42 out of 45 of the city’s civilian hospitals and two large army hospitals non-functional, according to the The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)....