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Iga Swiatek has done it again. For the second time this year, she’s standing at the top of a podium, holding a Grand Slam trophy above her head. This time, she defeated Ons Jabeur 6-2, 7-6(5) to win the 2022 US Open, capping off a year of incredible and unexpected success. Swiatek, who looked extremely nervous before the match began, looked anything but once the rackets started swinging. She came out strong, showing off all the skills we know her for: explosive movement, pinpoint precision… Source link

Xander Schauffele has now won twice in two starts ahead of next week’s British Open. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) For the second time in two starts, Xander Schauffele has come out on top. After nearly blowing a two-shot lead at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland, Schauffele rallied with two birdies in his final five holes of the day to claim the Scottish Open. “This was stressful. I’m not going to put makeup on the pig here,” Schauffele said on CBS. “It was a very average… Source link

U.S. stocks pushed higher for a fourth straight session on Thursday, led by broad-based gains across all sectors. Investors look ahead to the all-important June jobs report due out before Friday’s opening bell. The S&P 500 rallied 1.5% and the Nasdaq gained 2.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 246 points, or roughly 1.1%. The Labor Department is set to release its latest monthly employment data at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday. Figures are expected to show a payroll gain of 268,000 — the… Source link

Justin Bench received a warm welcome from his teammates after hitting Mississippi’s third-straight home run. (Jaylynn Nash/Reuters) Game 1 of the College World Series final was tight through seven innings. But Ole Miss rode hot bats in the eighth to ensure that it would leave Saturday with a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three championship series. TJ McCants, Calvin Harris and Justin Bench hit back-to-back-to-back home runs to blow the game open en route to a 10-3 win. McCants got the hit party… Source link

SAN FRANCISCO — Coming off Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Golden State Warriors star Andrew Wiggins has been seen in a new light with how he dug deep defensively and by dominating the glass to help his team even the series at 2-2. The lean, athletic forward registered 17 points, pulled down a career-high 16 crucial rebounds, had a starting unit high plus-minus of 20 and held Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum to 23 points on 23 shot attempts. His desire to win and compete was displayed in his 43… Source link

On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a proposal to get even more aggressive with the billions seized from Russian oligarchs who have close ties to Vladimir Putin. The White House released the outlines of what it calls a new comprehensive legislative package around Ukraine that includes provisions to “streamline the process for seizure of oligarch assets, expand the assets subject to seizure, and enable the proceeds to flow to Ukraine,” the White House said. The move on oligarchs and… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, April 27, 2022 “I recommend the S&P 500 index fund and have for a long, long time to people,” billionaire investor Warren Buffett said at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting last May. That’s been pretty good advice, and I wouldn’t be surprised if he repeated it again at the upcoming shareholder meeting on Saturday. In… Source link

Connecticut is on to its 14th consecutive Final Four after a double-overtime thriller. The No. 2-seeded Huskies downed No. 1 seed NC State, 91-87, in what was essentially a home game in the Bridgeport region on Monday. It was the first double-overtime game in the Elite Eight or later in women’s tournament history. Paige Bueckers came up clutch in the first overtime period and hit the opening 3-pointer 20 seconds into the second OT to put the Huskies up 80-77. UConn led by as many as five, the… Source link

The housing market in the U.S. may finally be cooling off. Pending home sales, a leading indicator of the health of the housing market, declined for the fourth straight month. The National Association of Realtors’ (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index, which tracks the number of homes that are under contract to be sold, fell 4.1% in February from January and dropped 5.4% from the same month a year ago. The results were disappointing as analysts predicted a 1.0% increase in sales from a month… Source link

By Chad Terhune and Robin Respaut    (Reuters) – More than 100,000 Americans died from diabetes in 2021, marking the second consecutive year for that grim milestone and spurring a call for a federal mobilization similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS.    The new figures come as an expert panel urges Congress to overhaul diabetes care and prevention, including recommendations to move beyond a reliance on medical interventions alone. A report released earlier this month calls for far… Source link