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Owner Ahmed Zayat said Sunday’s New Jersey race was a " no-win situation " as a 1-9 favorite. American Pharoah easily won the William Hill Haskell Invitational starting from the No. 4 position. Zayat announced on July 2 that American Pharoah would compete at the Haskell Invitational before targeting the October’s Breeders’ Cup Classic as his final race. MORE: How 11 other horses fared after Triple Crown victory | Crown winners on camera...

The president is facing stubbornly low approval ratings as he nears his 11th month office and some polling has shown him losing to Trump in a hypothetical rematch. Trump has repeatedly teased a third presidential campaign, while Biden has indicated he intends to run for a second term amid speculation about his future and his recent 79th birthday. A USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll conducted from November 3 to 5 found that 64 percent of respondents did not want Biden to run again....

As some observers call for international cooperation, President Donald Trump and Chinese officials have traded barbs as to who is responsible for the pandemic, which has killed almost 10,000 people since it appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December. The dispute has been aired on Twitter, and from press conference podiums to editorial columns published by Beijing-backed publications. Trump has repeatedly referred to the COVID-19 coronavirus as the “Chinese Virus,” raising fears that his rhetoric will encourage racist sentiment and persecution of Chinese and Asian people....

The confirmation came from Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto on Friday during a media teleconference. Haavisto also told reporters that although understanding tension between Ukraine and Russia are high, he hopes that Finland does not end up getting caught in the middle. “Finland does not discuss with NATO joining it, nor does Finland have such a project upcoming,” Haavisto said. “Finland’s security policy remains unchanged.” The comments came after Haavisto praised U....

Ireland, following on, were 123 for four at lunch on the fourth day – still 57 runs adrift of Pakistan’s total of 310 for nine declared. After collapsing to 130 all out in their first innings, Ireland resumed on a highly creditable 64 without loss. But they lost four wickets in Monday’s first session, with left-arm quick Amir – who had both openers dropped during a brief spell on Sunday before going off with a knee problem – enjoying a burst of two wickets for no runs in six balls....

The 40-year-old Pacquiao (61-7-2) is set to face Thurman for the WBA (super) welterweight title in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year Ahead of that contest, Khan, who improved his record to 34-5 by easing past late stand-in Billy Dib in Jeddah last week, said a deal is in place with Pacquiao’s team. “Hopefully we can get that fight,” the Briton told iFL TV....

Sofia (Bulgaria), Feb 23 (PTI) The fast-rising Amit Panghal (49kg) advanced to the final along with Seema Punia (+81kg) in the Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament for men and women here today. Amit, a gold-medallist at last month’s India Open, defeated Russia’s Soian Artysh to make the summit clash where he will be up against Morocco’s Said Mordaji. In a fast-paced slugfest, Amit, also an Asian Championship bronze-medallist, showed commendable ring craft to dodge his sprightly rival’s attacks....

Lokesh Gamer is another prominent figure in the Indian Free Fire community. At the time of writing, he has a subscriber count of 9.46 million on YouTube. This article compares the two players’ stats in Free Fire. Also read: PK Parwez’s (PK Gamers) Free Fire ID, total subscribers, monthly income, channel views, and more Amitbhai’s Free Fire ID and stats Amitbhai’s Free Fire ID is 206746194. Lifetime stats Amitbhai has played 8273 squad matches and has 2257 Booyahs, maintaining a win rate of 27....

In terms of a Mass Effect TV show, most fans want Commander Shepard to be left alone. Their backstory, personality, and gender are dependant on player choices, so a show attempting to have its own Shepard canon leaves a bad taste. In fact, the best idea for the show to be a success would be to leave most characters from the original game franchise alone. The Risk Of Using Major Mass Effect Characters Fans already intimately know the Mass Effect characters as well, so their backstories may not offer anything new....

Last month, the specifications for the Radeon RX 6000 series cards leaked, and those leaks proved to be accurate. The performance benchmarks for the RX 6000 cards look impressive. The official fact sheets released in a press briefing today show the same performance numbers quoted back then. The lengthy presser touts that the graphics cards will “set a new standard for enthusiast-class PC gaming experiences” and boasts life-like visuals and high performance to run the latest games in 4K....

I am a gun owner. I’ve been the lead advocate for gun violence prevention here in Massachusetts. In 1994, I realized that 19 kids under 20 years old were dying every day, and 106 Americans dying every day, from firearms. So I built a 250-foot billboard of the Massachusetts Turnpike near Fenway Park and put up messages around gun safety. Since that point in Massachusetts, we’ve reduced gun deaths by 40 percent....

America added more than 4 million cases in December, nearly double the cases reported in November, in a wave that experts believe is being fueled by the highly contagious Delta and Omicron variants. It’s possible cases have risen even more than that because people don’t usually report the results of their at-home test. Also, officials have advised some people to just assume they’re positive if they have symptoms, amid testing bottlenecks....

Biden’s move came at a time of escalating strife in Syria. More than a decade into its ongoing civil war, the country is plagued by hyper-inflation, near-ubiquitous poverty, and chronic energy shortages. The Syrian pound is trading at a rate of over 4,000 to the U.S. dollar. It has lost nearly 99 percent of its relative value since the war began. The human costs of this economic turmoil are staggering....

The pandemic has shown that when it comes to semiconductors, personal protective equipment or vaccines, America’s supply is vulnerable. The isolationism President Joe Biden is calling for, saying, “We shouldn’t have to rely on a foreign country,” has its limits. We can’t build a “fortress America” to eliminate foreign supply chains risks. We can reduce risks, while maintaining the benefits of global trade, by making our supply chains smarter....

America’s Army, a first-person shooter game published in 2002, was developed and published by the United States Military. America’s Army was explicitly created to encourage recruits into the military, and players experienced a variety of different military roles throughout the game. America’s Army was a serious investment for the US Army, having spent $32.5 million on the game in the first decade since release. Now, after three major iterations of America’s Army, the free-to-play online service is closing down....

“So, I’m here at American Airlines, where my ticket still shows active in the app. I tried to check in, it wouldn’t let me check in. So, I called American Airlines and they said that I’d have to check in at the gate,” says the customer, who wears a pro-Trump face mask in the video. “Here I am at the gate for American Airlines, and the guy behind the counter that you just heard says that my ticket was voided,” he continues....

By morning, after 12 hours in flight and one mid-air refueling, C-17 Globemaster cargo jets from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany drop 37,000 bright yellow packages of food for impoverished Afghans. Each package of “Humanitarian Daily Rations” explains in English, French and Spanish that the contents–two meatless lentil or bean entrees, packets of peanut butter and jelly, two Pop Tart-like fruit “pastries,” two dry crackers that can only be described as really bad matzo, two fig bars and a shortbread cookie–are a “food gift from the people of the United States of America....

Of course, everyone from residents of both Dakotas to hack magazine columnists (hey!) are getting plenty of mileage out of the debate. At the “heart” of the “issue” is the longstanding perception of North Dakota as flat, cold and boring. Supporters of the name change believe that the adjective “North” is the very embodiment of all three negative attributes (although geographical adjectives signify different things in different parts of the country; the “North” in North Carolina, after all, means “emphysema” while the “West” in West Virginia means “toothless, inbred jerkymakers”)....

Really, with all the “Mad Cow” delirium, who knew if, after eating a really nice sirloin, I’d still be able to pick up a pen and meet my deadline (a word that suddenly had an ominous ring to it)? Media reports have gotten increasingly hysterical. Images of English cows being slaughtered are everywhere, but a few weeks ago on ABC’s “20/20,” it got really weird. A reporter from the show actually donned a spacesuit before entering a barn that may have contained the tainted cow chow that causes Mad Cow disease....

Why I was manning the hustings with a placard rather than merely standing on the sidelines with a reporter’s notebook? Well, it all started a few weeks back when I wrote a column in which I mocked SUVs as wasteful, dangerous and really annoying to drive behind. The column earned me applause from dozens of environmentalists (which, we all know, is why I got into the journalism business in the first place), while others complained that I needed to “get off” my “smug” “ass” and actually “do” “something” about these gorillas in our midst....