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Phillies Return From Layoff, Lose to Cole and Yankees 6-3 Philadelphia returned from a weeklong layoff caused by additional coronavirus testing with a matchup against baseball’s hottest pitcher, and Gerrit Cole won his debut in pinstripes for his 19th consecutive regular season victory to lead the New York Yankees over the Phillies 6-3. BY RONALD BLUM, AP Baseball Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Philadelphia had not taken the field since July 26. Jake Arrieta had not been on a mound for a game that mattered since last Aug. 11. And the big return came against no less than the surging New York Yankees and Gerrit Cole, baseball's hottest pitcher, who was making his debut in pinstripes. “It seems like the deck is stacked against us,” Arrieta said after the Phillies fell behind by five runs and lost 6-3 on Monday night. "But that doesn't matter. This is a situation that’s been difficult for every team to deal with." DJ LeMahieu led off the bottom of ...

GLOBAL RESIDENTIAL PEST CONTROL SERVICES MARKET 2020 DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND GROWING DEMAND BY 2025: TERMINIX, ROLLINS, RENTOKIL INITIAL, ANTICIMEX, KILLGERM, ECOLAB The Global Residential Pest Control Services Market report is a unique reference guide intended to identify and highlight key developments concurrently taking place in the Residential Pest Control Services market. The report specifically focuses on market drivers, challenges, threats, and the like that closely manifest market revenue cycle to encourage optimum profit generation in the Residential Pest Control Services market. Details on product portfolios, user application as well as ongoing technical developments concerning the product line have also been touched upon, to derive accurate understanding about the market prognosis and their subsequent implications upon the Residential Pest Control Services market. Comprehending the competitive landscape of the Residential Pest Control Services market is rathe...

EXPIRED:Tornado Warning Issued in St. Mary’s **UPDATE 4:31 a.m.***The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits and no longer appears capable of producing a tornado. Therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. A Tornado Watch remains in effect until noon EDT for Southern Maryland The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a * Tornado Warning for… Central St. Marys County in southern Maryland… * Until 430 AM EDT. 4 August 2020 * At 400 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Saint George Island, moving north at 30 mph. HAZARD…Tornado. SOURCE…Radar indicated rotation. IMPACT…For those in the direct path of a tornado touchdown, flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Damage to roofs, siding, and windows may occur. Mobile homes may be damaged or destroyed. Tree damage is likely. * This dangerous storm will be near… Piney Point and Tall Timbers aro...

US AG Barr on racism, George Floyd, crime, Portland and Trump Barr rejects Democrats' assertions of racism in US policing and denies he favoured Trump's friends in Mueller trials. United States Attorney General William Barr appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on July 28 for the first time since taking office in February 2019. Barr's appearance came amid the deployment of federal law enforcement officers against crowds of protesters in Portland, Washington, DC, and other American cities. Barr's tenure as the top law enforcement official in the US has been controversial. Some Democratic politicians have called for Barr's impeachment. More than a thousand former Justice Department lawyers have signed a letter urging him to step down. Four former presidents of the DC Bar Association have called for a professional ethics probe. In the hearing, Democrats, who control a majority in the US House of Representatives, ch...

Stock Market Today: Big Tech Gets Grilled; KODK, Stocks Keep Cooking Investors turned to Washington on Wednesday, where the Federal Reserve made its latest policy statement, and where Big Tech chiefs gathered to face Congress in a historic antitrust hearing. It also saw Eastman Kodak (KODK) continue its sudden sizzling run. The House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee questioned Amazon.com's (AMZN, +1.1%) Jeff Bezos, Apple's (AAPL, +1.9%) Tim Cook, Facebook's (FB, +1.4%) Mark Zuckerberg and Alphabet's (GOOGL, +1.3%) Sundar Pichai on Wednesday, but the hearing did little to shake confidence in their respective shares. SEE MORE 7 Top Robinhood Stocks: Do the Pros Agree? Likewise, America's central bank did little to rock the apple cart, stating it would keep interest rates near zero to support the economy, though Fed Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged "the pace of the recovery looks like it has slowed since mid-June." ...

Internet Outage Hits Thousands Of Southern California Spectrum Customers LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Thousands of Spectrum Internet customers across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and Ventura counties were hit by an outage that also affected customers across the country. Spectrum customers reported the outage on Twitter and other social media starting at about 6:40 p.m. Wednesday. The company later confirmed thousands of its customers across the country were offline. Customers in Los Angeles, Anaheim, Burbank, Santa Ana, Riverside and Simi Valley were affected. “Spectrum is investigating thousands of customers’ reports of a widespread internet outage in parts of Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties,” the company said. “Our engineers are working to get this corrected for you as quickly as possible. We don’t have an estimated restoration time.” Most customers who were affected reportedly had their service restored within an hour. Ca...

Alyssa Milano Rips Joe Rogan For Being More Popular Than She Is In 22-Tweet Celebrity Temper Tantrum It is with tears in my eyes that I must announce that the celebrity rendition of Imagine from March has not solved all the world’s problems. Good try, good effort, Ramen noodle hair. Thankfully, we have Alyssa Milano, who appears to be posturing for a role as Grandstanding Gal On A Wine Drunk in the next Scorsese film. She has already proven herself to be the most diverse actress in Hollywood, if this tweet is any indication. Milano put her acting range on full display Thursday night to her 3.7 million Twitter followers, kicking off a 22-tweet digital ambush no one can remember asking for. Do we have a choice? No we do not. The 47-year-old actress covers everything from the evils of Trump to MLB baseball to sympathizing with Boomers to policing to more Trump hate to the Washington R*dsk*ns to Cheez-Its to Breonna Tayl...