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Rhiannon12866

(205,320 posts)
Wed May 13, 2020, 03:29 AM May 2020

5 things to know today - that aren't about the virus

Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news:

1. SUPREME COURT TAKES UP TRUMP TAX CASE Rulings against the president could lead to the campaign season release of personal financial information that Trump has kept shielded from investigators and the public.

2. WHERE TRUMP DIFFERS WITH CAMPAIGN His reelection team is helping Republican voters cast their ballots through the mail even as the president says the process is ripe for fraud and “cheaters.”

3. SHOOTOUT IN AFGHANISTAN — Militants storm a maternity hospital in the western part of Kabul, setting off an hours-long shootout with the police and killing 14 people, including two newborn babies.

4. ANTI-SEMITIC INCIDENTS IN US HIT RECORD HIGH The surge last year was marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi’s New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reports.

5. WHAT BASEBALL IS CONSIDERING The National League might join the American League and use the designated hitter on a full-time basis this season.


Read complete stories (Includes pix): https://apnews.com/8efea1034df2618aced6d64eaa9898d0

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5 things to know today - that aren't about the virus (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 May 2020 OP
NO!!!!!! SleeplessinSoCal May 2020 #1
End of Civilization as we know it. rickyhall May 2020 #2
Just this season... Wounded Bear May 2020 #3
Did they flip a coin to decide DH or no DH? SleeplessinSoCal May 2020 #4
Actually, I think they discussed it... Wounded Bear May 2020 #5
K&R UTUSN May 2020 #6

Wounded Bear

(58,649 posts)
3. Just this season...
Wed May 13, 2020, 06:07 AM
May 2020

they are considering consolidating everything due to coronavirus to minimize travel, which will lead to NL and AL teams in the same "divisions" this season.

Deal with it.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,112 posts)
4. Did they flip a coin to decide DH or no DH?
Wed May 13, 2020, 01:22 PM
May 2020

AL fills the bench with "specialty" hitters who never actually play in the game save at bats.

(I don't really care, but I used to.)

Wounded Bear

(58,649 posts)
5. Actually, I think they discussed it...
Wed May 13, 2020, 01:57 PM
May 2020

with AL and NL teams temporarily in the same division, having it for all is probably easier than for none.

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