The party was in full swing on Saturday. So were the Indians. And as he watched his teammates target each other with foamy fluids, Brantley wanted to cherish an AL Central championship that seemed preordained. “I’m savoring every moment of this,” Brantley said after the Indians won their third straight division title on Saturday. “This never gets old to me. This is a lot of hard work that this group has put in to get to this point....
Revis, 32, has been a free agent the entire season after he was released by the New York Jets in February. The former New England Patriots and Jets first-team All-Pro was one of the best corners in the league for the better part of a decade before he started to lose a step in recent years. “We’re excited to add Darrelle to the roster,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said....
The Chiefs have won 11 in a row, but to win a 12th straight game, they’ll have to beat the Patriots at Gillette Stadium. The Chiefs enter the game as the hottest team in the NFL, but Kansas City coach Andy Reid is trying to keep his team on an even keel. MORE: How every playoff team can with Super Bowl 50 | Chiefs D wins wild card, but Alex Smith needs to step up...
The hard part was that they were facing the Chiefs, who entered the game with the best record in the AFC. By the end of Sunday night, however, Seattle (9-6) had its ticket punched to the postseason thanks to some home cooking in a 38-31 win. Patrick Mahomes still did MVP-caliber things, of course, including slithering away from defenders and throwing a touchdown across his body at one point, but two Chiefs (11-4) turnovers stalled progress in the first half and a late game Seahawks drive with a pair of tremendous catches helped ice the game....
One video, posted by the Street Watch LA account, shows two officers dragging a child out of a home in the El Sereno neighborhood on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday as people scream in protest. “Have a f****** heart!” one person is heard yelling. “Tonight in El Sereno, CHP evicted a mom and child reclaiming rightful public land. They dragged a child from her home, pinned and arrested her,” the tweet read....
After its release, Children of Morta received new content through updates that either improved the game or added more things to it. Some of the new content came in the form of DLC, while some have been new features or even a game mode added to the game. Now, the game is adding the new online co-op feature to Children of Morta. RELATED: 2D Souls-Like Salt and Sacrifice Gets Release Date in New Trailer...
Fourteen years into the transition from socialism to capitalism, there’s a growing social chasm in Central and Eastern Europe. The brave new world that opened up in 1989 brought many lucrative careers, travel and the chance to shape their lives. But for those without connections, languages or savvy about how to work the new system, freedom has brought fresh insecurities and inequalities. As the state has shrunk in favor of the private sector, so, too, have guaranteed jobs, apartments and support networks....
After their Copa America win, Chile have climbed up the table and are now in the Top 10 with 1124 points. Wales have continued their phenomenal rise and move one spot up to ninth with 1155 points – just one spot behind rivals England who are eighth with 1157 points. This is Wales’ highest-ever position in the FIFA World Rankings. Netherlands saw the biggest fall in the rankings as they fell 7 spots to 12th with a total of 1032 points....
The deaths of at least 20 Indian troops—including a colonel—and an as-yet unknown number of Chinese soldiers were the first along the border in decades. The violence occurred at the loose Line of Actual Control in place since the end of the 1962 Sino-Indian War in the northern Indian state of Ladakh, where overlapping territorial claims mean regular confrontations. But the scale and brutality of Monday’s fighting was unusual. Tensions have been high since April, when thousands of Chinese soldiers crossed the LoC and set up positions in disputed territory, seemingly to frustrate Indian construction projects that would improve its military preparedness at remote bases along the mountainous border....
In a statement published Tuesday by the Chinese Defense Ministry, People’s Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command spokesperson Senior Colonel Shi Yi slammed the passage of the U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius through the Taiwan Strait that separates the Chinese mainland from the self-ruling island claimed by the central government in Beijing. “This action of the U.S. side created security risks and undermined regional stability,” Shi said. “The troops of the PLA Eastern Theater Command will take all measures necessary to resolutely counter all threats and provocations and safeguard China’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the spokesperson stressed in the statement....
Milley, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, twice went behind former President Donald Trump’s back to make telephone contact with his opposite number in Beijing, the People’s Liberation Army’s Gen. Li Zuocheng, according to a new book slated for release in September. The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that Milley’s calls—first in October 2020 and again this January—were made to assure China’s military leaders that the U....
The COVID-19 crisis is a human tragedy, and it is now touching everyone. But for a vocal constituency across the world, those more and more wedded to the vision of China as a kind of existential threat, it has also been the moment that offered them concrete proof that finally, utterly and without mitigation, China is guilty. Hawks on either side of the Atlantic have been brushing off their most indignant, furious language....
According to a cached version of that page from the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan that Newsweek reviewed, requirements were updated so that scientists would need to have their study approved by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology before publication: Newsweek has reached out to a spokesperson for China’s embassy in Washington, D.C. for comment, but they had not responded as of the time of publication. The Guardian first reported this on Saturday....
Putin’s bear hug was no anomaly, and though done for good strategic reasons, also reflects Russian public opinion. Even as relations between Moscow and Washington continue to sour, China is growing more popular than ever; a major public-opinion poll last year found that most ordinary Russians now think China has “a positive impact on the world” and that the United States has a negative one. And Russians are far from alone in these sentiments....
Spokesperson Zhao Lijian, who last month was criticized for blaming the U.S. Army for the pandemic, dismissed The Associated Press report as “unfair” at a briefing with reporters on Wednesday, according to Bloomberg. Zhao said he had not read the report, but argued that China informed the World Health Organization of the situation and acted in a “timely manner.” The AP report said that more than 3,000 people were infected with the coronavirus during the six days of silence, when millions of Chinese people were traveling around the country and abroad for Lunar New Year....
A Thursday editorial published by the People’s Daily newspaper—the official publication of the Chinese Communist Party—lamented the death toll and called on the Trump administration to re-evaluate its approach to the pandemic, which has infected almost 5.7 million people worldwide and killed 355,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The COVID-19 coronavirus originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan before spreading worldwide. The pandemic has driven U.S.-China relations to their lowest point in living memory, with the Trump administration blaming Beijing for allowing the virus to spread....
The fear on campuses is palpable. Last week, Hong Kong Free Press editor-in-chief Tom Grundy withdrew from a classroom Zoom discussion after a University of Leeds instructor asked him to avoid discussing Hong Kong’s protest movement due to “safety concerns” for Chinese students. And just weeks ago, Princeton professor Rory Truex advised students in China against taking his Chinese politics course due to the legal concerns it could raise for them....
Tsai had “face to face” meetings in the past with both Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan—Joe Biden’s top picks for secretary of state and national security adviser. Channels of communication between Washington and Taipei were “smooth,” she told reporters Wednesday. Speaking before a meeting of her Democratic Progressive Party’s Central Standing Committee, President Tsai said the progression of U.S.-Taiwan relations and the American government’s support for Taiwan have been “clear for all to see....
“We consider the Asian Games an important part of our preparation for the 2016 Rio de Janerio Olympic Games,” said Xiao Tian, deputy chef de mission of Team China. “We hope that our athletes can show their fighting spirit and sportsmanship at the Asian Games and maintain our number one position in the medals table.” At the last Asian Games in Guangzhou in 2010, China topped the table for the eighth consecutive time with 199 gold medals....
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - China’s Chen Ruolin and Liu Huixia claimed gold in the women’s synchronized 10 metre platform diving event at the Rio Games on Tuesday, with Malaysia and Canada respectively taking the silver and bronze medals as the venue’s pool turned a bright green hue. Chen, competing in her third summer Olympics, has won every title in the synchronized 10m platform event since 2006. The duo failed to achieve the top score in their third and fourth dives but came back strongly in the final one, breaking into big grins and hugging as they achieved a total score of 354....
