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Batter up! Kate Upton, Hannah Jeter (née Davis) and JoAnna Garcia Swisher are just a few A-listers who’ve been wooed by Major League Baseball athletes over the years. Garcia was acting for more than a decade before her now-husband, Nick Swisher, was drafted in 2002 by the Oakland Athletics. Two years later, Swisher made his MLB debut with the Oakland As, playing both outfield and first base. After two trades — Nick moved to the Chicago White Sox and then to the New York Yankees — and six years in the league, the athlete married the Reba alum in 2010. (He…

CNN  —  Sen. Raphael Warnock continues to hold an advantage over Herschel Walker in Georgia’s US Senate race, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University, with the margin between the two candidates little changed compared with polling conducted before allegations emerged that Walker paid for a woman’s abortion and encouraged her to have another one. The survey, which was conducted after the allegations about Walker emerged last week, finds Warnock with 52% support among likely voters to 45% for Walker, about the same as in a mid-September poll. Walker’s favorability rating has shifted narrowly more negative, from 51% saying…

Over 150,000 Michigan voters have cast absentee ballots a month before the Nov. 8 election that will decide the state’s governor, secretary of state, attorney general and whether access to abortion will be a constitutional right.A total of 1.6 million people have requested absentee ballots so far, surpassing the 1.16 million who chose the option in the 2018 midterm election. The numbers indicate that 2022 could be the most votes ever cast in the state for a gubernatorial election, Secretary of State spokesman Jake Rollow said Tuesday.A record-breaking 3.3 million people in Michigan voted absentee in the 2020 presidential election…

After a summer of scandal, Hockey Canada faces a “long road ahead” in reestablishing itself as an organization worthy of governing the sport, experts say. Following months of calls for change, the organization announced Tuesday its chief executive officer is gone and its entire board of directors would follow suit due to outcry over its handling of alleged sexual assault cases.Hockey Canada now has to find new leadership to enact the reforms many Canadians have been seeking, but finding the right people to oversee that change must be the top priority for the organization going forward, said Richard Leblanc, professor…

After back-to-back mass shootings last spring, including one that killed 10 people at a supermarket not far from his suburban Buffalo home, Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Jacobs made a decision.If an assault weapons ban came to the House floor, he would support it, he told voters in his conservative congressional district.”I could have said nothing,” said Jacobs. Silence would have allowed him to cruise through the Republican primary. But after 31 deaths in 10 days, including the slaying of 19 children at a school in Uvalde, Texas, he felt he had an obligation to take a public stance.”Having two young…

Stoked by rising rent costs, consumer inflation is expected to have remained hot in September but slightly lower than August’s pace.The consumer price index will be released Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET, and it will be closely watched by investors as a key input before the next Federal Reserve meeting on Nov. 1 and 2. The Fed is widely expected to take another swing at curbing inflation, with a three-quarter point rate hike.Economists expect the CPI rose 0.3% in September, up from 0.1% in August, according to Dow Jones. That would mean inflation was running at an annual pace of…

Follow the Champions League live Football match between Viktoria Plzen and FC Bayern Munich with Eurosport. The match starts at 8:00 PM on October 12th, 2022.Catch the latest Viktoria Plzen and FC Bayern Munich news and find up to date Champions League standings, results, top scorers and previous winners.Football fans can read breaking Football news headlines, interviews, expert commentary and watch replays. Keep up with what’s happening in the Premier League, Champions League and other competitions.Make Eurosport your go-to source for sports online from football to tennis, cycling, snooker and more. Enjoy the best of this season’s top sports competitions.…

Europe is already entering a new wave of COVID-19, according to a joint statement released on Wednesday from the World Health Organization and the European Centre for Disease Control.”We are unfortunately seeing indicators rising again in Europe, suggesting that another wave of infections has begun,” Dr. Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, and Dr. Andrea Ammon, director of the ECDC, wrote. Weekly reported cases in Europe started to rise in September, according to the most recent regional data for Europe from the WHO’s COVID-19 dashboard. During the week ending on Sep. 4, Europe recorded 1.14 million new cases and…

In the 1970s and 80s, EF Hutton was one of America’s biggest retail brokers. The brand has recently been . . . reanimated. Led by new ownership and management, EF Hutton has underwritten lots of US blank-cheque company offerings this year, even after regulators proposed strict new rules on the space. That and a broad drought in IPOs have made it one of 2022’s top underwriters in US equity markets. A stranger twist: a special purpose vehicle also bearing the EF Hutton name is trying to buy an Oregon microcap health food company founded by famous mega-wave surfer Laird Hamilton. More on that…

A senior NATO official stated that if Russia were to conduct a nuclear strike during its war against Ukraine, it would result in “unprecedented consequences,” Reuters reported.The official observed that Russia was threatening the use of nuclear weapons to keep NATO and others from getting involved in the conflict, but that if those threats were carried out, it would probably have the opposite outcome.Such a strike would “almost certainly be drawing a physical response from many allies, and potentially from NATO itself,” the official told Reuters.Russia has hinted several times at the possibility it could unleash weapons of mass destruction…