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Updates from the women’s singles on Rod Laver Arena
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Pegula (6) 1-0 Keys (9)* Pegula, in Adidas orange, holds to love. Keys, in Nike lemon and lime, mentioned in their podcast she was wary of her friend’s drop shots, which proved prescient when a delicate angle from Pegula secured the game.
Pegula has breezed through the draw so far, dropping just ten games. Keys has yet to lose a set but has been made to work harder. Fortunately her serve remains massive, and her 194kmh effort is the second fastest so far in the women’s draw.
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Winner will earn place at Super Bowl LX against Patriots
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Super Bowl LX? Wasn’t Super Bowl L just a few years ago?
Cute ad in which a young girl mimics figure skater Ilia Malinin. I’m duty-bound to inform you that I will indeed be in the commentary position for some Winter Olympics action in a couple of weeks, and that Malinin is from my town.
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Some elected officials condemn Trump’s federal surge in Minnesota and say DHS agents should leave state
Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Calls mount on Trump administration to fully investigate killing
Minnesota workers pressure employers to take action against ICE operations
Alex Pretti, a Veterans Affairs Hospital ICU nurse, was said to be deeply upset about the Trump administration’s sometimes brutal immigration crackdown. The 37-year-old has been described as kindhearted by his friends and family (see opening post to read what his parents said about him in a statement issued after he was killed).
Dimitri Drekonja, chief of the Infectious Diseases Section at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs hospital and a colleague of Pretti, called him “a good kind person who lived to help.” Pretti was a nurse working “to support critically ill veterans,” he added.
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Victims of landslide at Mount Maunganui campsite include teenage students, a literacy coordinator and a Swedish national
The families and friends of six people buried in a landslide at a New Zealand holiday park last week have paid tribute to their loved ones, after they were named by officials, and police confirmed they were unlikely to be found alive.
The victims include 15-year-old Pakūranga College students Sharon Maccanico and Max Furse-Kee, literacy coordinator Lisa Maclennan, 50, longtime friends Jacqualine Wheeler and Susan Knowles, both 71, and Swedish national Måns Loke Bernhardsson, 20.
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‘When someone chooses to listen to a politician, a so-called journalist... that spouts that type of vilification towards law enforcement or anything else… there are consequences,’ Greg Bovino says

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