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Jose Siri hears boos from home Mets crowd after ugly game: ‘Didn’t have a good day’

It took seven games for Citi Field to reject Jose Siri. The Mets’ platoon center fielder, who missed most of the season with a broken leg and made his seventh home appearance Friday (and just his second start in Queens since April), was booed often in a 12-6 Mets victory over the Nationals because of…
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Mets slugger Juan Soto hits career-high 42nd homer in first year of $765 million contract

Mets slugger Juan Soto hits career-high 42nd homer in first year of $765 million contract
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Jazz Chisholm Jr. joins rare Yankees company with 30-30 season

On Friday, Chisholm took lefty Dietrich Enns deep in the top of the seventh for his 30th home run of the season.
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IDF warns aid workers only hospitals are protected sites in northern Gaza

Israeli military says aid infrastructure could be targeted after order to ‘all Gaza residents and inhabitants’ to leave

Humanitarian workers in northern Gaza have been repeatedly warned by the Israeli military that only hospitals will be considered protected sites and all other aid infrastructure could be targeted.

In messages and conversations with aid workers in recent days seen by the Guardian, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said an order to “all Gaza residents and inhabitants” to evacuate Gaza City, the biggest urban centre in the territory, applied “to all humanitarian locations [there], except hospitals” and warned that “to defeat Hamas [Israeli troops] will operate … with great force”.

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‘This is their attempt to silence him’: Umar Khalid reaches five years in Indian jail without trial

Held since 2020, India’s most prominent political prisoner has become a symbol of repression under the Modi regime

“There is indeed something about captivity that makes one feel like a state of somewhere between life and death,” wrote Umar Khalid in June in a letter penned as his fifth year languishing behind bars approached.

Few understand the purgatory of jail like Khalid. For five years – since his arrest in September 2020 under a draconian terrorism law – he has remained India’s most prominent political prisoner, to many a potent symbol of the systematic crushing of dissent under the dominant Hindu nationalist regime of the prime minister, Narendra Modi.

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Theater Review: Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris revel in the power of ‘Art’

Theater Review: Bobby Cannavale, James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris revel in the power of ‘Art’
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Luka Doncic open to Real Madrid return to end pro basketball career

Luka Doncic might want to end his professional basketball career right where it started.
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin now identifies as trans woman: court docs

Nicholas John Roske, 29, who pleaded guilty in April to attempting to kill Kavanaugh, will henceforth be referred to by attorneys as “Sophie Roske.”
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How trio of Giants benefitted from Travis Kelce’s ‘Tight End University’

If Travis Kelce sees a Giants tight end shrewdly shake coverage Sunday against the Chiefs, he will have an idea where they learned the secret.