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title: “Aux Armes Citoyens A Wimp Attack” ShowToc: true date: “2023-01-26” author: “Glenn Blanchard”

FORD: Well, it is changing. And not because we’re abandoning the truck market. In fact, we’re vigorously defending there. But we’re also pushing hard into new segments, recognizing a shift in the marketplace. We just didn’t anticipate the speed with which it would happen. If you took a snapshot of our product lineup a year ago, it certainly wouldn’t look like that two years from now. Without tipping our future product plans, it will be more fuel-efficient, and there will be a somewhat smaller shift in our product emphasis....

“MLB’s revenues have grown in recent years, with the increase in national and local broadcast rights fees being a primary contributor,” MLB’s chief legal officer Dan Halem told the AP. “It is expected that player compensation will increase as club revenues increase.” MORE: Baseball’s worst contracts The average salary is projected to be approximately $4.25 million after baseball experienced the largest two-year growth in over 10 years. The average salary previously broke the $1 million in 1992 and $2 million in 2001 before reaching $3 million in 2008....

MORE: Why the 2017 NBA Draft will be awesome It’s been a full couple weeks for her. There have been tweets and Stephen A. Smith and a gutwrenching loss and then more tweets, and the memes — oh, the memes! So tonight’s show, in which she judges the cooking prowess of children, should be good. Here’s what you can expect: — One of the kids is wearing her husband’s child-chef-in-the-kitchen-ass shoes....

The controversial rapper is known for her wild rants and bizarre antics and has endorsed Trump in the past. Posting to Instagram this week, the 29-year-old told fans she was sharing the list because her then-fiance Ryder Ripps encouraged her not to hold hate in her heart. Sharing a photo with a handwritten list, Banks’ caption reads: “@ryder_ripps says I need to practice not being such a hater so I made a list of people I love....

Former Kedah, Kelantan and Harimau Muda head coach Azraai Khor Abdullah is open to the idea of leading relegation-threatened Super League side Melaka United. The Mousedeers are currently 11th in the 12-team standings, having ‘rested’ head coach Eric Williams just before their round 13 match against Felda United last week. He told mStar.com that he is interested in returning to coaching with Melaka, even though they are struggling this season....

Sarychev listed himself as a 43-year-old with a history of psychiatric illness had had only a dozen or so friends on a social media account. One of the groups Sarychev joined was “offer/receive children.” When Sarychev sought a Russian adoption service and asked if there were ways around the traditional adoption avenues—and background checks by social services—the agency didn’t ask any questions. Instead, they gave Sarychev options on how to adopt a child for about £5,000, which is just under $6,500 in U....

Well, almost. But unlike Marcos, Estrada has not been hiding behind the walls of Malacanang Palace. Last week the former B-movie actor was out making headlines, chastising his middle-class opponents and communing with the base of supporters that propelled him to a landslide victory in 1998: the poor. On the outskirts of Manila, in a shantytown area of Caloocan City, more than 5,000 homeless men, women and children gathered in the rain last Thursday to hear Estrada speak–and accept his long-promised charity....

Business Insider’s Grace Deen posted photos of the scene to Twitter on Sunday, writing: “The Holocaust Memorial Garden in Hyde Park has now become a makeshift Queen Memorial Garden.” The photos have garnered over 8,700 likes and thousands of replies bashing the “crass” display. British officials have asked Londoners to place floral tributes to the Queen in dedicated areas at either Green Park or Hyde Park. To help mitigate confusion, The Royal Parks, a charity dedicated to managing London’s royal parkland, has published digital maps highlighting each park’s designated tribute area....

“Outfielder Ed Stewart of Vancouver, Western International League, knocked himself unconscious when he swung and missed at a pitch and hit himself in the head with his bat,” the Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball reported. MORE: Best-looking outfields in MLB | Top 10 MLB moments of 2015 Stewart swung so fiercely and wildly that the bat came whipping around his back shoulder and slammed him on the back of the head....

Women who took part in the research were more likely to eat additional food and have a lower-quality diet after sleeping badly, which could, in turn, increase their risk of developing cardiovascular disease. That’s according to the authors of the paper, which was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. The research involved 495 women taking part in the American Heart Association (AMA) Go Red for Women cohort study, who provided information about their sleep patterns and eating habits....

Which brings us to Saturday’s Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, and whether American Pharoah can win the second leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown (6:18 p.m. ET, NBC) after capturing the Kentucky Derby on May 2 by a length. American Pharoah’s sire, Pioneerof the Nile, was an accomplished racehorse in his own right. Like American Pharoah, Bob Baffert trained Pioneerof the Nile during his three-year-old season. In the 2009 Kentucky Derby, Pioneerof the Nile ran well, finishing second to Mine That Bird....

Bale has reportedly been earmarked by Madrid as a saleable asset as they look to raise funds to a move on Monaco prodigy Kylian Mbappe, who could cost the European champions an estimated €180 million. Real Madrid 5/1 favourites to win Champions League After the winger helped Madrid overcome United 2-1 in the UEFA Super Cup on Tuesday, United boss Jose Mourinho said it was “game over” in their pursuit of the former Tottenham man....

Was it merely a popularity contest among media members spread around the world? Did all those media members deserve to have a vote? What criteria were they using when selecting players for their ballots? French publication France Football, the original creators and organizers of the annual award, revisited the entire process from nomination to the final vote and made some changes to ensure the honor remains merit-based. Here we run down the changes made and how the global voting operates today....

From tipping England to advance and Belgium to fall at the first hurdle, check out all of Balotelli’s group-stage predictions in the video above! Mario Balotelli appears courtesy of PUMA Football

The Orioles have lost 18 straight games and are just five away from tying the modern record of 23 that was set by the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies. (Before 1900, in the American Association, three teams had major-league losing streaks: In 1890, the Pittsburgh Alleghenys lost 23 in a row; in 1899, the Cleveland Spiders lost 24 games in a row; and in 1889, the Louisville Colonels lost 26 in a row....

“I’m blaming Trump for this one. Soon as they showed him at game we had that bad swacky!!” Ingram, a former University of Alabama college star, tweeted after the game on Saturday, which resulted in the Alabama Crimson losing to the LSU Tigers 46-41 at home. Trump garnered loud applause, cheering and “USA” chants from supporters at Bryant-Denny Stadium as he appeared in his box suite on Saturday during the college football match in Tuscaloosa, Alabama....

Jackson led the Ravens to a 45-6 win over the Los Angeles Rams. Jackson completed 75 percent of his passes for 169 yards and five touchdowns, and he rushed for 95 yards on eight carries, just missing the goal line for a running score. When asked after the game how he felt of his performance, Jackson simply said he was being himself. “Just me being me,” Jackson told ESPN’s Lisa Salters in the post-game interview on the field....

Members of the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee voted unanimously to expand its quantitative easing program to £895bn ($1.1 trillion), but held rates at the historic low of 0.1 percent. It said gross domestic product (GDP), the value of a country’s products and services, will pick up in the first quarter of 2021, but warned that activity will still remain “materially lower” than before the COVID crisis. The decision came as England’s 56 million people joined much of western Europe in a second coronavirus lockdown, with other sweeping restrictions already in place in the other nations of the U....

The bank, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, also plans to eliminate the fees for non-sufficient funds (NSF) charged to customers when it rejects a transaction, also known as bouncing a check. “This is the final step in the journey we’ve been on,” Holly O’Neill, president of retail banking for the bank, said in an interview. “We have good financial solutions for clients without them having to rely on overdraft, but we will still have overdraft if it is needed....