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  • HawgBeat

    Arkansas lands commitment from Milwaukee outfielder Carson Hansen

    The Arkansas baseball team has added its third transfer portal addition of the offseason, as Milwaukee outfielder Carson Hansen announced his commitment to the Razorbacks on Sunday. A 6-foot-2, 220-pound soon-to-be junior, Hansen finished the 2024 season as a member of the Horizon All-League First Team after slashing .315/.404/604 with an OPS of 1.008. From the left side of the plate, Hansen walked in 27 at-bats and struck out 42 times.

  • Associated Press

    Candidates race into France's snap legislative poll but one convicted for spousal assault withdraws

    Candidates were racing to register before a Sunday evening deadline in snap parliamentary elections that are redrawing France's political landscape, with a left-wing alliance newly formed to counter the surge of the far right losing, in the final hours, a prospective lawmaker previously convicted for spousal assault. Adrien Quatennens announced the withdrawal of his candidacy that had opened cracks in the fledgling New Popular Front. The uneasy coalition of parties from the far-left to the center-left is campaigning together against the prospect that the two-round June 30 and July 7 election could produce France's first far-right government since the Nazi occupation.

  • The Star Press

    Media, social-media algorithms and U.S. enemies fueling misconceptions about economy

    For more than a year, perceptions have diverged significantly from the actual data on inflation, consumption, unemployment rates and growth.