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On May 28, the Braves will give the first 20,000 fans inside the gates of Turner Field a bobblehead of the iconic Braves slugger rescuing the Atlanta first baseman during Georgia’s disastrous 2014 snowstorm. Atlanta essentially shut down in January 2014 due to snow and ice coating the roads, leaving many stranded on the highway. Freeman, who lives close to Jones, called him for help after he spent 13 hours trying to get home from the stadium....

Up next: Braves pitcher Touki Toussaint MORE: Two Minutes With … the Yankees’ Clint Frazier What’s your first baseball memory? Toussaint: I’d say hanging out with Big Papi. I was 9 years old. My best friend, his dad played for the Mariners and I guess they knew each other and we got to hang out with him. What’s the last show you binge-watched? Toussaint: “The Blacklist” What’s your favorite free-time activity?...

Braves starter Julio Teheran hit the Blue Jays’ Bautista in the left thigh with a fastball, a response to Bautista flipping his bat after hitting a home run Wednesday night. Unwritten rules followed to the invisible letter. RIVERA: Bautista was dumb to flip bat after meaningless HR Surprisingly, Bautista didn’t threaten violence toward Teheran. He just went to first base. Again, because unwritten rules. At that point, it was on Teheran to make sure the Jays didn’t score....

Miller appeared to hit his shoulder and head on the turf on the play. MORE: Scoreboard | Spartans stunned on controversial no-call Miller had five carries for 11 yards and the reception was his first catch of the game. A photo posted by Sam Fahmi (@studio79) on Nov 7, 2015 at 8:01pm PST

Brazil’s 2022 presidential election has been highly politicized, to put it mildly. Both sides argued that democracy would be threatened if the opposing candidate won. A violent outcome was widely predicted. Lula, as he is commonly known, was sentenced to a long prison term on corruption charges in 2017. His successor and ally Dilma Rousseff, who served as Lula’s chief of staff (a high-ranking cabinet post roughly equivalent to prime minister), was impeached and removed from office....

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently pledged to end illegal deforestation this month while at the United Nations climate summit, The Associated Press reported. The National Institute for Space Research’s Prodes monitoring system released a report with the numbers before the summit started on Oct. 27. The report references the months of Aug. 2020 to July 2021. This is the most forest lost in a year since 2006. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below....

“We’ll talk in 2022,” Bolsonaro said about TV Globo, according to Al Jazeera. “You’d better hope I’m dead by then, because the renewal process won’t be persecution, but … there won’t be any workarounds for you or anyone else.” “Despicable bastards, you are not patriots,” Bolsonaro continued, according to Reporters Without Borders. “The journalism you do is rotten, corrupt and immoral. You’re useless! You just publish lies!” “But now you try to link me to Marielle’s murder, TV Globo?...

In the last few weeks, talk of illnesses like depression and medicines like Zoloft have become almost routine on the Senate floor, as Congress debates a bill intended to make insurers cover mental illness the same way they do traditional ““physical’’ illnesses like heart disease and cancer (page 23). Senators from across the political spectrum have told the stories of suffering that have prompted them to support the legislation: Sen....

Israel, home to 300,000 survivors of the Nazi death camps, is still struggling to come to terms with the symbols of the Holocaust. Over the protests of many legislators, German President Johannes Rau in February addressed the Knesset in German–the first time that language was heard from the rostrum of the Israeli Parliament. Next month, 38 years after its English-language publication, Hannah Arendt’s classic but controversial study of totalitarianism, “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” will finally appear in Hebrew....

Breast cancer is when cells in the breast tissue start to grow out of control and form a tumor. Breast cancer can develop in people of any sex but is much more common in those assigned female at birth. In 2022, there will be around 290,560 cases of breast cancer diagnosed in the U.S. (2,710 cases of male breast cancer and 287,850 cases of female breast cancer). Thankfully, the survival rate for breast cancer is good and has been steadily improving over the last 30 years....

Today, routine mammograms are considered the mainstay of breast cancer screening, while BSEs and clinical breast exams (CBEs) performed by healthcare providers are no longer recommended by most leading healthcare authorities. For its part, the American Cancer Society (ACS) accepts that “some women might still be comfortable doing regular self-exams as a way to keep track of how their breasts look and feel” even though there is little evidence that doing so will improve the odds of early detection of breast cancer survival....

The Canadiens forward ripped into the young Senators player after Tuesday’s 6-3 win for Ottawa, accusing Stutzle of lying on the ice too long and faking injuries. “When I was 10 years old, our coach had a rule if you lay on the ice — we didn’t have trainers — if the coach had to come on the ice and get you, you’re too hurt to play. You had to sit for a minimum three shifts,” Gallagher said....

This season is no different as Washington acquired defenseman Brenden Dillon from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for a pair of draft picks Tuesday afternoon. NHL TRADE TRACKER: List of deals completed before the deadline Dillon joins a talented blueline corps led by Norris Trophy frontrunner John Carlson and veterans Michal Kempny and Dmitry Orlov. “Brenden is an experienced defenseman who plays a solid defensive game with a high compete level and physicality,” Capitals general manager Brian MacLellan said in the team’s press release....

Antonio Conte’s side make the short trip across the capital to face Thomas Frank’s Bees in the first Premier League game since mid-November. Both teams have taken part in behind-closed-doors friendlies during the World Cup, with Spurs facing Motherwell and Nice, and Brentford training in Spain and Germany. Here is all the key information for the return to Premier League action including kickoff time, TV and streaming information, lineups and betting odds....

“Being one of the jurors on the Breonna Taylor case was a learning experience,” the anonymous juror said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon. “The three weeks of service leading up to that presentation showed how the grand jury normally operates. The Breonna Taylor case was quite different.” Continuing, the statement said jurors were not “presented any charges other than the three Wanton Endangerment charges against Detective Hankison” when Daniel Cameron, the state’s attorney general, submitted findings from his office’s investigation to the grand jury....

The lawsuit, filed in the Southern District of New York, alleges the NFL and its teams to have violated Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866; the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination; the New York State Human Rights Law; and the New York City Human Rights Law. Flores, listed as the plaintiff, claims to act on behalf of more than 40 members of the proposed class: “all Black head coach, offensive and defensive coordinators and quarterbacks coaches, as well as general managers and black candidates for those positions....

Hoyer threw a career-high four interceptions and fumbled twice as Kansas City shut out the Texans 30-0, making Houston the first team since 2005 to be shut out in the playoffs. “I’ve dealt with a lot of adversity, obviously this might be one of the worst parts of my career,” Hoyer told reporters after the game. “It’s disappointing. It’s embarrassing. There’s no one that feels lower than I do right now....

Kevin Harvick called the format “the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” and Kyle Busch said heat races should be used to set the field at superspeedways. MORE: Earnhardt only has to worry about finishing first | Labonte starts final Cup race | Season on the brink for NASCAR’s best Dale Earnhardt Jr. called for a return to single-car qualifying at Daytona and Talladega instead of the group formats, and Jeff Gordon tweeted, “Wow never been so frustrated & confused trying to qualify for a race....

Danya Glenny, 42, from Longwood, and Joycelyn Bryant, 31, of Joycelyn’s Southern Kitchen, from Orlando, have been charged with tampering, negligence and delivery of marijuana. It follows on from reports of an incident at Glenny’s wedding reception at Springs Clubhouse on 400 Woodbridge Road, Longwood on Saturday, February 19, in which several guests contacted the emergency services after falling ill. According to a report from the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation was sparked after a male guest called 911 to request an ambulance as he “was feeling weird....

The 26-year-old took to popular Subreddit “Am I the A**hole” in a bid to gain views on her polarizing situation. She explained that the couple hosted a child-free wedding, barring anyone under the age of 21, as they both “find children and tweens very annoying.” The want for a child-free wedding isn’t out of the ordinary, with wedding planner Sarah Wintersteen telling Glamour magazine that around 60 percent of couples opt for one....