MLB is giving Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani a warmup clock loophole between innings originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Fox broadcast captured the weirdness of the moment. Advertisement Shohei Ohtani was stranded on base to end the top half of the first inning for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and …
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Two years ago, T-Mobile announced a controversial decision to ditch its AutoPay discount for Apple Pay and credit cards payments. Its reasoning at the time, of course, was that it pays higher processing fees on credit card transactions, so it saves a few dollars by restricting AutoPay to debit and bank payments only. Unfortunately, T-Mobile is now cracking down on …
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AutoPay is good for many reasons. Not only is it probably the most bulletproof way to avoid a late fee, but it also nets you some decent discounts. Unfortunately, though, it looks like it’ll be slightly more annoying for some customers who’ve been using a loophole to pay with a credit card. According to multiple internal sources who have reached …
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Of all the finger-pointing and recriminations that come with the current federal government shutdown, one of the most striking elements is that the Trump administration blames it on Democratic support for granting taxpayer-funded healthcare coverage to undocumented immigrants. The White House has called out California specifically, saying the state exploits a legal “loophole” to pay for that coverage with federal …
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(Photo: HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) It’s no secret that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy wants to wage a war on pharmaceutical advertising. He spent months campaigning for a ban on pharmaceutical ads while running for President last year, and now he has landed his first blow. At Kennedy’s request, President Donald Trump …
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Postal traffic into the United States plunged by more than 80% after the Trump administration ended a tariff exemption for low-cost imports, the United Nations postal agency said Saturday. The Universal Postal Union says it has started rolling out new measures that can help postal operators around the world calculate and collect duties, or taxes, after the U.S. eliminated the so-called “de minimis exemption” …
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Crypto advocates see things differently. They claim stablecoin rewards create healthy market pressure and could drive big banks to provide more competitive interest rates in an effort to keep customer deposits. “To call this a trillion-dollar fight would be an understatement: This is highly fraught territory that banks have jealously guarded,” says former Republican Representative Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, …
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Ask Google’s AI Gemini to generate a deepfake photo of a politician or an image containing copyrighted material, and the chatbot will flat out refuse. But when Google added more photo editing capabilities with Flash 2.5, it also briefly opened up a dangerous loophole that gave the AI platform more potential for abuse. When I started testing Gemini’s new photo …
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