“The hitting coaches have been helping me be more convicted in knowing what [pitch] I'm gonna get and making sure that, when I get the pitch I'm looking for, I don't miss it,”
Curtis MeadSaid DATE NOT STATEDReported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Mead credited Washington's hitting coaches for helping him approach at-bats with conviction and capitalize on pitches he was looking for.
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JUL 26
Comic-Con 2026 trailers roundup
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Neagley season 1 debuts on Prime Video on Sept. 16.
“I would like to say this to Christopher Street Day participants here in Berlin but also across Germany: Don't let yourselves, let us not let ourselves, be intimidated,”
Alexander DobrindtSaid JUL 26Reported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Dobrindt addressed Christopher Street Day participants on Sunday following the attack.
The truce between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis collapsed this month after an attack on Sanaa airport to stop an Iranian plane landing provoked the Houthis to fire ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia.
“This is everything I dreamed about, that I wanted as a little kid. I told my parents when I was five years old that I was gonna be a professional athlete. The plan never changed, even when it looked murky, when I didn't know how I was gonna get it done. When I was on the phone calling random coaches in the Bahamas, hoping that somebody would give me a chance. That was always the goal.”
“We have depleted our interceptors, which are the weapons we use to intercept incoming Iranian attacks, which are obviously necessary to protect American troops, and so we are depleting these every day, despite the fact that we could face other potential conflicts around the world.”
Chris Van HollenSaid JUL 26Reported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Van Hollen warned on ABC's "This Week" that depleted interceptors leave US troops vulnerable amid other potential global conflicts.
“If you don’t have glasses that have AI or some way to interact with AI, I think you’re … at a pretty significant cognitive disadvantage compared to other people who you’re working with, or competing against,”
Mark ZuckerbergSaid DATE NOT STATEDReported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Mark Zuckerberg suggested on an earnings call last year that AI glasses could give people a cognitive edge over those without them.
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JUL 26
Red Sox notes: Durbin, trade targets, Suarez
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Langeliers is on the IL for a torn meniscus and potentially out for the season.
“That’s a pretty heavy lift for August, but this could be a mega August given the staying power of ‘The Odyssey’ coupled with ’Spider-Man: Brand New Day,”
Paul DergarabedianSaid DATE NOT STATEDReported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Dergarabedian assessed the summer box office outlook given the continued strength of "The Odyssey" and the upcoming release of "Spider-Man: Brand New Day."
“The difference is Iran is enriching to weapons’ level that it doesn’t need to do. Iran is burying it, which no other country in the world does, hundreds of feet underground, under hardened military infrastructure. Iran is trying to shield it with a conventional drone and missile shield. And Iran has stated if and when they get a nuclear weapon they will not only use it on Israel, but they will threaten the rest of the world to export the revolution.”
Mike WaltzSaid JUL 26Reported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Waltz contrasted the Saudi deal with Iran's nuclear activities during an appearance on NBC.
Trump administration ramps up citizenship revocation plans
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said, 'When you commit fraud during the naturalization process, you forfeit the right to keep your U.S. citizenship.'
“Republican and Democratic administrations post the Supreme Court decision understood the message of that case and understood that denaturalization was to be used sparingly and was not supposed to be a bread-and-butter tool of immigration enforcement,”
Amanda FrostSaid DATE NOT STATEDReported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Frost said both Republican and Democratic administrations understood after a 1967 Supreme Court ruling that denaturalization was to be used sparingly.
“We have depleted our interceptors, which are the weapons we use to intercept incoming Iranian attacks, which are obviously necessary to protect American troops, and so we are depleting these every day, despite the fact that we could face other potential conflicts around the world.”
Chris Van HollenSaid JUL 26Reported JUL 26verbatim · 1 source
Van Hollen warned on ABC's "This Week" that depleted interceptors leave US troops vulnerable amid other potential global conflicts.