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プロ野球 巨人の新監督に松井秀喜氏が就任へ
news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/nd-2… #nhk_news
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Katie Zacharia out as White House press secretary after less than a week trib.al/N5gf6Yh
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117 Pitches. 10 Strikeouts. 1 Standing Ovation for Cam.
#RepBX | @Cam31Schlittler
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Stop, drop, shut 'em down, open up shop.
#RepBX
ALT FINAL: Yankees 9, Boston 0.
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Tonight, the Empire State Building tower lights will turn to a pink sparkle at 9:25 to honor the late Dolly Parton.
Dolly was a global cultural icon whose seven-decade career reached generations of fans. Beyond entertainment, Dolly leaves a significant philanthropic legacy through the Dollywood Foundation and Imagination Library, which has provided hundreds of millions of books to children worldwide.
At Nine-Two-Five tonight, we celebrate her and her legacy 💖 – at Manhattan, NY
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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Tommy John, a veteran of 26 MLB seasons who helped revolutionize recovery from pitching injuries in the 1970s.
John broke in with Cleveland as a 20-year-old in 1963 and made his last appearance for the Yankees at age 46 in 1989, also pitching for the White Sox, Dodgers, Angels, and Athletics. The left-hander won 288 games, made 4 All-Star teams and anchored 3 pennant-winning teams, while twice finishing as a runner-up for the Cy Young Award. His 700 games started rank 8th on the all-time list.
After John injured his elbow in 1974, he received the first ulnar collateral ligament replacement surgery from Dr. Frank Jobe. John returned to pitch in 1976, then won 20 games three times in four years from 1977-80.
He would go on to pitch 14 of his 26 seasons after the procedure that is now known as Tommy John Surgery, a measure that has helped extend pitching careers in the more than half a century since it was first performed.
He was 83.
ALT Tommy John 1943-2006 Pictured: A headshot of Tommy John from the mid-1970s. He wears a white Dodgers uniform and a blue Dodgers cap with the LA logo
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Japan just told the foreigners who built lives here, who learned the language, paid the taxes, raised the kids, buried the years — you were too slow. No permanent residency. Not because you didn’t earn it, but because it’s easier to blame 3% of the population than to answer for thirty years of decline.
It’s a good short-term play. Scapegoats always poll better than self-examination. But the rot was never the foreigners — it was three decades of the LDP running the country like a family business, cronies first, everyone else an afterthought.
One day the math will catch up. People will look around and ask how it all fell apart. But by then the answer will be sitting in Singapore, or Berlin, or back home — because the smart ones don’t wait around to be blamed for a mess they didn’t make. They just leave. Quietly. And they don’t come back.
Proposed new requirements for permanent residency in Japan have left many angry, anxious and unable to plan for the future, with some reconsidering whether they can remain in the country at all. ebx.sh/vJA0uC
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Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s The Sopranos, has died. He was 80. The veteran actor was found dead in his Bronx residence today, Aug. 1, by a neighbor after he had not been heard from for the past three days. The circumstances surrounding his death are being investigated.
Read More: deadline.com/2026/08/vincent…
(Photo: Scott Gries/Getty)
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Another embarrassing day for a popular "Japanese nationalist" account that posts in English. This person claims to be Japanese, but can't even read the basic kanji for "South Korea" (韓国) which is in the video. It is is not complicated Japanese vocabulary. Most foreigners who study Japanese would learn very early on when learning kanji.
They also can't even read Hatoyama's name, which is a fairly simple name to read for Japanese native speakers. Former PM Hatoyama is a fringe figure in Japanese politics today, with pro-Putin and pro-China stances that are out of touch with the general public, and would be cringe even by the standards of Japan's tiny Communist Party.
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I took 1.7 million photos over 6 days to catch this photo of a commercial jet in front of the sun.
The moment it happened, TWO floating prominences were visible, making this not just my best aircraft transit photo, but one of the luckiest of my career! Videos of the transit 👇
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Happy 100th birthday, Sir David Attenborough 🎉❤️
The broadcaster who changed how we see the natural world.
#DavidAttenborough
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Stunning video shows an ultra rare phenomenon of iridescent clouds, which appears when sunlight interacts with lingering raindrops in the air after it rains.
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The Yankees mourn the loss of legendary broadcaster John Sterling. Our thoughts are with John’s family, friends and loved ones at this time.
ALT John Sterling: 1938 - 2026
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Your entire account is repost factory.
You steal content from others.
You are not a “creator” in any sense of the word.
You systematically exploited the rev share program.
X has reallocated your payout toward original content creators.
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One of the most important things that Elon taught me:
People engaging in fraud are always the first and loudest to complain.
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Earthshine.
Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.