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Major League Baseball has unveiled the National League Silver Slugger winners from the 2025 season. The group is headlined by many familiar names, including Shohei Ohtani and Juan Soto. Here is the full list of winners as revealed Thursday.Catcher: Hunter Goodman (Colorado Rockies)First Base: Pete Alonso (New York Mets)Second Base: Ketel Marte (Arizona Diamondbacks)Shortstop: Geraldo Perdomo (Arizona Diamondbacks)Third Base: Manny Machado (San Diego Padres)Outfield: Juan Soto (New York Mets), Corbin Carroll (Arizona Diamondbacks), Kyle Tucker (Chicago Cubs)Designated Hitter: Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers)Utility: Alec Burleson (St. Louis Cardinals)Team: Los Angeles DodgersThe battle everyone was keeping an eye on between Ohtani…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. In 1272 CE, a Hungarian duke was murdered in cold blood. Details surrounding the grisly killing of the 13th century Hungarian duke named Béla of Macsó have remained murky for centuries. The duke met his demise at the hand of enemies, but far less is known about what motivated his killers or how the attack really unfolded.  Now, after years of reexamination and interdisciplinary analysis, an international team of researchers has a much clearer and reliable picture of Béla’s fatal encounter. Their findings published in the…

Ukraine is calling for more sanctions and asset freezes on Russia as it fends off intensified attacks, with another harsh winter of war looming.At least 10 people have been killed, and more parts of Ukraine have been plunged into darkness, after another night of intense Russian attacks across the country, local authorities said, as diplomatic momentum to end the nearly four-year war falters.Ukraine’s military announced on Saturday morning that hundreds of Russian drones, as well as missiles launched from the air, ground and sea, targeted critical infrastructure, a frequent Kremlin target as another harsh winter of war looms.Recommended Stories list…

Payments of up to £250 per household could be made to Rotherham residents who are struggling with their energy bills this winter.Rotherham Council has launched its Energy Crisis Support Scheme, with £500,000 available to help people cope.To qualify, residents need to show they have £150 or less left per month after paying essential bills for housing, food and utilities. The scheme has no age restriction and is open to people who are not on benefits.Council leader Chris Read said more than 3,000 residents benefited from the scheme last year.He said: “While energy bills are no longer spiralling in cost, we…

The duo kept their program running in the background for over a decade. During that time, a couple of computers from their ragtag collection succumbed to overheating and even flames. “There was one that actually sent out sparks,” Brittenham said. “That was kind of fun.” (Those machines, he added, were “honorably retired.”)Then, in the fall of 2024, a paper about a failed attempt to use machine learning to disprove the additivity conjecture caught Brittenham and Hermiller’s attention. Perhaps, they thought, machine learning wasn’t the best approach for this particular problem: If a counterexample to the additivity conjecture was out there,…

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…

Importers of plants say long delays and damage to shipments at a Kent border control post risk driving up prices and could lead to transport companies stopping deliveries across the Channel.Traders have reported long waits in recent weeks at the government’s Sevington facility off the M20 near Ashford, which was built to check goods of plant and animal origin arriving from the EU. One importer said delays were adding £200 of costs to each load.There are also warnings that trees and shrubs are repeatedly being damaged when unloaded and reloaded on to lorries during the inspection process.Since Brexit, deliveries of…

Donald Trump faced arguably the biggest test so far of his contentious use of executive power at the US supreme court on Wednesday. The stakes could not be higher – “literally, LIFE OR DEATH” for the US, at least according to the president.Trump’s signature, globe-rattling economic policy, his sweeping tariffs regime, was in the dock – specifically, the legal mechanism his administration has used to enforce it. And the man dispatched to defend the White House put forward a somewhat puzzling argument.“These are regulatory tariffs,” D John Sauer, US solicitor general, assured the court. “They are not revenue-raising tariffs. The…

Now that cold and flu season has officially begun, we’re on guard, stocking up on our tried-and-true wellness hacks to do whatever we can to prevent ourselves from getting sick. While there are unfortunately no miracle cures for preventing illness, we’re hoping that the following tips can give our immune systems a boost. And if we do end up getting sick, these hacks can also help alleviate any unwanted symptoms.Especially as we enter the holiday season, with travel to visit loved ones and celebratory gatherings in the mix, these are the wellness hacks we’ll be using to stave off sickness.1.…

PA MediaTRNSMT will mark its ninth year in 2026, with no female-fronted acts set to headlineThe organisers of Scotland’s biggest music festival have been criticised for failing to book any female headliners for its ninth year in a row.TRNSMT this week unveiled Richard Ashcroft, Kasabian and Lewis Capaldi as the main acts for the three-day event in June 2026.DF Concerts refused to comment on the all-male headliners, which female artists and music journalists have branded “deeply disappointing”.The promoter has faced regular criticism for the diversity of past line-ups and “token gestures” to promote smaller female acts at the Glasgow festival.TRNSMT…