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5 Astros named to 2022 AL All-Star team
The Houston Astros will be well-represented at the 2022 MLB All-Star Game this year.
Jose Altuve was named a starter at second base on Friday, but on Sunday, four of his teammates learned that they’ll be joining him in Los Angeles on July 19.
Yordan Álvarez, Kyle Tucker and Justin Verlander were selected via the player vote while Framber Valdez was selected by Major League Baseball.
Houston’s 27 All-Star selections since 2017 are more than any team in baseball. The last time Houston had five players on the All-Star team was in 2019. In 2017 and 2018, six Astros were named to the team, which is the club record.
Álvarez, Tucker and Valdez were selected to their first All-Star Game teams while Verlander has now done it nine times. It’s Altuve’s eighth selection and fifth time as a starter, both of which are franchise records, passing Craig Biggio, who was a seven-time All-Star and four-time starter, according to the team.
It’s unclear if Álvarez will make it to LA after he was placed on the injured list on Sunday before Houston’s series finale against Oakland.
As the defending champions of the American League, Astros manager Dusty Baker and his coaching staff will manage the AL squad. It’s the third time that an Astros manager and his staff will manage the All-Star Game (2006 and 2018). Houston’s coaching staff was supposed to manage the 2020 All-Star Game before it was canceled due to the pandemic.
Teen arrested in death of Axel Turcios
According to the Houston Police Department, it happened in the 9500 block of Ella Lee Lane around 8:10 p.m. on May 6 when Axel was in the parking lot when he was approached by two men. Officials say one or both of the men shot him and took off in a PT Cruiser.
Responding officers said a good Samaritan was tending to Axel’s injuries before they arrived, and rushed him to a nearby trauma center, where he later passed away. His family says Axel was a freshman at Lamar High School.
Weeks after Axel’s death, Mayor Sylvester Turner and HPD Chief Troy Finner joined his family to hold a press conference calling for the public to help find the 14-year-old’s assailants.
“I’ve said it before: ‘even the Neighborhood has rules,’ so a 14-year-old kid or innocent kid, [with his] whole life ahead of him or high school student…it just makes no sense,” Chief Finner said. “It angers me, but I tell you what, we’re going to stand strong and get these individuals in custody.”
Hernandez is the only one arrested, as of this writing, in this case, but his role was not made clear, nor were the charges the 17-year-old is facing.
Source: fox26houston
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U.S. President Joe Biden to sign order on abortion access
U.S. President Joe Biden will take executive action Friday to protect access to abortion, the White House said, as he faces mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful on the subject after the Supreme Court ended a constitutional right to the procedure two weeks ago.
The White House said Mr. Biden will speak Friday morning “on protecting access to reproductive health care services”. The actions he was expected to outline are intended to try to mitigate some potential penalties women seeking abortion may face after the ruling but are limited in their ability to safeguard access to abortion nationwide.
Mr. Biden is expected to formalize instructions to the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services to push back on efforts to limit the ability of women to access federally approved abortion medication or to travel across state lines to access clinical abortion services.
Mr. Biden’s executive order will also direct agencies to work to educate medical providers and insurers about how and when they are required to share privileged patient information with authorities – an effort to protect women who seek or utilize abortion services.
He will also ask the Federal Trade Commission to take steps to protect the privacy of those seeking information about reproductive care online and establish an interagency task force to coordinate federal efforts to safeguard access to abortion.
The White House said it will also convene volunteer lawyers to provide women and providers with pro bono legal assistance to help them navigate new state restrictions after the Supreme Court ruling.
The order, after the high court’s June 24 ruling that ended the nationwide right to abortion and left it to states to determine whether or how to allow the procedure, comes as Biden has faced criticism from some in his own party for not acting with more urgency to protect women’s access to abortion.
The decision in the case known as Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organisation overturned the court’s landmark 1973 Roe v Wade ruling.
Since the decision, Mr. Biden has stressed that his ability to protect abortion rights by executive action is limited without congressional action.
“Ultimately, Congress is going to have to act to codify Roe into federal law,” Mr. Biden said last week during a virtual meeting with Democratic governors.
The tasking to the Justice Department and HHS is expected to push the agencies to fight in court to protect women, but it conveys no guarantees that the judicial system will take its side against potential prosecution by states that have moved to outlaw abortion.
“President Biden has made clear that the only way to secure a woman’s right to choose is for Congress to restore the protections of Roe as federal law,” the White House said. “Until then, he has committed to doing everything in his power to defend reproductive rights and protect access to safe and legal abortion.”
Source: thehindu
James Caan, actor de ‘El padrino’, muere a los 82 años
James Caan, un veterano actor de cine conocido por su trabajo en películas como “El padrino”, “Misery” y “Elf”, murió, dijo su familia en un comunicado en su cuenta verificada de Twitter. Tenía 82 años.
“Es con gran tristeza que les informamos del fallecimiento de Jimmy en la noche del 6 de julio”, se lee en el comunicado. “La familia agradece la efusión de amor y las más sinceras condolencias y les pide que continúen respetando su privacidad durante este momento difícil”.
¿Quién era James Caan?
Caan saltó a la fama por primera vez interpretando al corredor de los Chicago Bears, Brian Piccolo, en “Brian’s Song”, una película para televisión de 1971 ampliamente vista. La película desgarradora narra la batalla de la vida real de Piccolo contra el cáncer terminal y recibió elogios por su tratamiento de la amistad interracial entre Piccolo y un compañero de equipo negro, Gale Sayers.
Su siguiente película, “El padrino” de 1972, convirtió a Caan en una estrella. Aunque no era italiano, Caan interpretó al exaltado Sonny Corleone, el mayor de los tres hijos del mafioso Vito Corleone, quien es memorablemente asesinado a tiros por gánsteres rivales en una cabina de peaje.
En una entrevista de 2021 para “CBS Sunday Morning”, Caan dijo que basó la personalidad de Sonny en el difunto comediante Don Rickles.
“No fue imitar a Don Rickles. Fue tener ese impulso, esa cosa, ¿sabes? Simplemente estaba enfocado en eso”, dijo sobre su actuación.
El papel le valió una nominación al Oscar. Caan también apareció en un flashback en “El Padrino, Parte II”.
Caan fue quizás mejor conocido por interpretar a personajes duros en películas como “Thief” y “Rollerball”. Pero fue un actor versátil que interpretó una variedad de papeles, incluido “Misery”, la adaptación de Stephen King de 1990 sobre un novelista de romance apacible aterrorizado por una fanática obsesiva.
Probablemente sea mejor conocido por el público más joven por su papel en “Elf”, el cuento navideño en el que interpretó al padre tipo Scrooge de Will Ferrell, un editor de libros para niños disgustado al saber que tiene un hijo exuberante que viste un disfraz de duende y vierte miel de maple en su espagueti.
En la misma entrevista de CBS, Caan dijo que casi rechazó el papel solo por el título de la película, pero Ferrell lo convenció de unirse al proyecto.
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