SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres agreed to an $8.9 million, one-year contract with Tommy Pham, avoiding arbitration with the outfielder who was limited to 31 games last season…
Day: January 20, 2021

Wives bore the brunt of child care during the shutdown
Traditional gendered patterns of child care persisted during the COVID-19 shutdown, with more than a third of couples relying on women to provide most or all of it, according to…

Private equity firm eyes stake in All Blacks
US private equity firm Silver Lake is in talks to acquire a stake in New Zealand’s All Blacks, according to reports. The transaction would be for a stake of up…

We gave this laptop a 7, then a Swedish metal band turned it up to 11
If you’re interested in learning about the Lenovo Legion 5i gaming laptop, I now have much more than a mere written review to share with you. Swedish metal band Iron…

Airstrike in Afghanistan bombs Taliban target. Now 18 members of one family feared dead.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Mir Hatim says he spent the early hours of Jan. 10 sifting through the bombed-out house of his relatives, searching for their bodies in the rubble. “Everyone…