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Aroldis Chapman was one of the biggest trade chips available, so how can the Atlanta Braves help their bullpen now at the deadline?Over the past month, or at least the previous few weeks, it's become clear that the Atlanta Braves bullpen should be and likely will be the primary focus for Al...

The John Deere Classic begins this Thursday, and it’s an exciting PGA Tour event for those who like to see some low scores posted.Since 2009, the lowest winning score at TPC Deere Run is -18, and the cut line is usually going to be somewhere in the range of -1 to -4. So, that means the win...

BERLIN Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called on Monday for the extension of a

Bret Easton Ellis’s debut 1985 novel “Less Than Zero” was quickly adapted for the big screen, but here are some fun facts you probably didn’t know about the book (and the Brat Pack-led drama).

Churchill Downs is extending trainer Bob Baffert's suspension through 2024

Over the weekend, Elon Musk appeared in a Twitter post to endorse the idea of taking the right to vote away from people without children. The billionaire Tesla co-founder replied “Yup,” to a series of posts from Twitter user @fentasyl, which argued “democracy is probably unworkable long term without limiting suffrage to parents.” The exchange came as Mr Musk continued his recent run of interacting with right-wing figures on the social network. The posts from fentasyl themselves were a response to a previous post from Mr Musk. On Saturday, in the comments under an Islamophobic nonprofit’s video, where commenters insinuated that single white women were turning France into a majority-Muslim country, Mr Musk claimed, “The childless have little stake in the future.” The Independent has contacted Mr Musk for comment. These opinions are hardly surprising for Mr Musk, who has long expressed concerns about declining birth rates in the US and the lack of “smart” people having enough children, views which critics have argued are verging on eugenicist. In 2022, Musk, who has fathered nine children, wrote on Twitter that, “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far. Earlier this year, he elaborated, telling former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson that society hasn’t “evolved” to respond to abortions and contraception, which the billionaire incorrectly claimed were invented in the last 50 years. “I’m sort of worried that hey, civilisation, if we don’t make enough people to at least sustain our numbers, perhaps increase a little bit, then civilisation’s going to crumble,” Musk said. “The old question of, will civilisation end with a bang or a whimper?” (In fact, the world population has doubled in the last 50 years to more than 8 billion, according to the UN, though the birth rate has slowed in some places.) Observer argue that such so-called “natalist” views are often entangled with eugenicist ideas about intentionally manipulating future births to privilege and center certain groups of people. Mr Musk has previously lamented that “smart” people aren’t having enough children. “If each successive generation of smart people has fewer kids, that’s probably bad,” he once told a biographer. The tech billionaire has touted a prototype robot as a solution to a hypothetical world where declining numbers of workers are available to toil in Tesla factories. For someone concerned with human civilization’s long-term longevity, Mr Musk lives a fabulously carbon intensive life. The carbon footprint from his 2022 private jet flights alone was 132 times greater than the average US resident’s total footprint, a doubly astounding figure given people in the US consume far more resources than less wealthy nations. Read More Twitter rival Bluesky halts sign-ups after huge surge in demand following Musk’s rate limits Tweetdeck down: Major Twitter client not working amid chaos on site Thousands of Twitter users complain of issues with social media website and app Twitter users run into service issues after Elon Musk imposes daily limits on reading tweets Threatened by shortages, electric car makers race for supplies of lithium for batteries

Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, public health officials in Los Angeles are advising beachgoers to avoid sea lions that have been sickened by toxins from large algae blooms coating California beaches.

James Harden's trade request leaves the Philadelphia 76ers in a tricky position. Here are five players the team could acquire to remain competitive in the East.James Harden has levied his third trade request in as many years, which leaves the Philadelphia 76ers in a tricky spot. The mandate...

Arsenal will soon officially confirm new contracts for William Saliba and Reiss Nelson.

The Los Angeles Clippers were reportedly a favorite for Damian Lillard, but one NBA insider says another star could move their focus.According to NBA insider Marc Stein, the Los Angeles Clippers appear to be in line to get involved in a pursuit of a James Harden trad.Subsequently, this would...

Hong Kong police are offering HK$1,000,000 ($127,650) rewards for information leading to the arrest of eight pro-democracy activists

The NBA returns on Monday night for the California Classic in the NBA Summer League, a welcome sign for many of us basketball fans.The opening game in Cali is between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, two teams that added some talent during the 2023 NBA Draft. First-round picks Jaime Jacque...