by dap | Jan 21, 2025 | The Guardian
- CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner also make list
- Ichiro falls one vote short of unanimous selection
Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of a unanimous selection when he was elected on Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.
Suzuki received 393 of 394 votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Sabathia’s name was on 342 ballots and Wagner’s on 325, which was 29 more than the 296 needed for the required 75%.
by dap | Jan 21, 2025 | The Guardian
In a ‘step backward’, Trump effectively reinstated Schedule F, reclassifying thousands of employees as political hires
One day after Donald Trump returned to office, a leading government labor union filed a lawsuit against his administration’s reclassification of thousands of federal workers as political hires.
An executive order signed by the president – making public sector workers easier to fire – amounts to a “dangerous step backward”, according to the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents federal government employees across 37 agencies and departments.
by dap | Jan 21, 2025 | The Guardian
President Donald Trump began his first full day in office attending a prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral. The Episcopal bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, pleaded with Trump during the service, asking the newly elected president to protect immigrants and respect gay rights. ‘There are gay, lesbian and transgender children in Democratic, Republican and independent families, some who fear for their lives,’ she said as Trump and his family watched on. After the inauguration, Trump launched a sweeping immigration crackdown and promised mass deportations
by dap | Jan 21, 2025 | The Guardian
Gusts could peak at 70mph (113km/h) along the coast and 100mph (160km/h) in the mountains and foothills
Winds picked up on Tuesday in southern
and at least a couple of new
broke out as firefighters remained on alert in extreme fire weather, two weeks after major blazes started, two of them still burning, in the
area.
The fresh high winds – that are coming amid still bone-dry conditions – mark the end of a break in dangerous high fire-risk conditions that have allowed the beleaguered city’s firefighters to largely contain the disastrous blazes that have burnt thousands of homes. The fires have killed at least 27 people and destroyed more than 14,000 structures since they broke out during fierce winds on 7 January.
by | Jan 21, 2025 | The Guardian
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