Cubs vs. Pirates Tickets for Sale & Game Info The Chicago Cubs (18-11) and Pittsburgh Pirates (14-16) clash in NL Central play, on Friday at 2:20 PM ET. As of this writing, a starting pitcher has yet to be announced by either squad. 04/29/2024 - 10:50 pm | View Link
Athletics’ pitching puts Pirates on lockdown to open homestand Joe Boyle and two relievers shut down the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Athletics played a fundamentally efficient game on offense Monday night in a 5-1 win at the Coliseum to kick off a 10-game homestand. 04/29/2024 - 5:11 pm | View Link
10 Facts About Pirates and What They Do 10 Facts About Pirates. Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain. By. Christopher Minster. Updated on February 28, 2021. The so-called “Golden Age of Piracy” lasted from about 1700 to 1725. During this time, thousands of people turned to piracy as a way to make a living. 04/25/2024 - 7:12 pm | View Link
Meet the real pirates of the Caribbean—and the Carolinas By María Lara Martínez. July 02, 2020. • 15 min read. Pirate ships, treasure maps, and bottles of rum are just a few of the things that come to mind when thinking of pirates. These popular... 04/25/2024 - 7:05 pm | View Link
8 Famous Pirates From History | HISTORY 8 Famous Pirates From History. From state-sponsored privateers to outright outlaws, these pirates made their reputations as fearsome raiders. By: Jesse Greenspan. Updated: July 13, 2023 |... 04/25/2024 - 4:27 pm | View Link
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean The real pirates of the Caribbean were desperate criminals, mostly men but some women, too, who plundered easy targets like unarmed merchant ships in the Caribbean Sea from 1690 to 1730. Famous pirates include Blackbeard, Captain Kidd, Bartholomew Roberts, and Anne Bonny. 04/25/2024 - 3:44 pm | View Link
The History of Pirates: From Ancient Sea Peoples to the Golden Age Jul 18, 2023 5:20 PM EDT. The history of pirates is often romanticized, but real piracy has existed since ancient times and continues in the modern era. Did Pirates Exist? Myth vs. Reality. Few legends ignite our imagination as readily as the history of pirates. 04/25/2024 - 10:43 am | View Link
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U. S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution.
The report states that Russia is increasingly leveraging TikTok to disseminate Kremlin messages in both English and Spanish, with state-linked accounts posting far more frequently on the platform than they did two years ago.
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Such accounts are also active on other social media platforms and have a larger presence on Telegram and X than on TikTok.
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain their economic circumstances and contrasted the four with the U. S. on immigration.
The remarks, at a campaign fundraising event Wednesday evening, came just three weeks after the White House hosted Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a lavish official visit, during which the two leaders celebrated what Biden called an “unbreakable alliance,” particularly on global security matters.
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The White House welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi for a state visit last summer.
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(WASHINGTON) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation.
When Kabul fell to the Taliban, returning the country to the fundamentalist group’s control after two transformative decades, scores of Afghan women were compelled to flee. Those who remained faced a reality in which they could no longer be who they are: journalists deleted evidence of their work, artists destroyed their creations, and graduates set fire to their degrees.
While the Taliban forced many Afghan women to abandon their workplaces and universities, some chose to fight back.
BEIJING — The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area.
One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province.
The British royal family is celebrating Princess Charlotte’s 9th birthday with a new portrait taken by her mother, Kate Middleton.
The image—shared to the official Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) accounts of the Prince and Princess of Wales on Thursday morning—shows Charlotte in a garden, smiling beside a pink flower bush.