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WIMBLEDON, England — Former Grand Slam champions Naomi Osaka, Caroline Wozniacki, Angelique Kerber and Emma Raducanu have all been awarded wild cards for Wimbledon. The grass-court tournament starts on July 1. Osaka — a four-time major champion and former No. 1 player — and three-time Grand Slam winner Kerber returned from maternity leave at the start of this season. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Currently ranked 113th, Osaka was the only player to take a set from top-ranked Iga Swiatek at the French Open and followed that up with a quarterfinal spot last week in ’s-Hertogenbosch, a warm-up event for Wimbledon. Former U.

Lines of corn tortilla chips and tortillas flow with systematic purpose at Raquelitas Tortillas factory in Denver’s River North Art District. Once the chips have been fried and seasoned, a conveyor belt delivers them into a chute, where 6 lbs are automatically weighed out and dropped into a pink and green Raquelitas box, ready to be shipped out to one of 1,800 wholesale customers. But not every aspect of the 25,000-square-foot factory’s assembly line comes with its own set of rules.

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag periodically during the offseason. Click here to submit a question. Minicamp was short but did anyone stand out to you out there? — Victor Perez, Commerce City Hey Victor, thanks for the question and for getting us going this week. Minicamp was indeed short — two days instead of three and then Sean Payton cut the guys loose a day early.

Have you ever ordered a sandwich at Subway? If so, you may have noticed that the workers are called “sandwich artists.” Are they artists in the true sense of the word? Are they somehow expressing something when they put together the sandwich precisely as you request it? Instinctively, many of us would say “no.” Slapping cheese, meat, and condiments onto bread does not seem like the sandwich makers’ speech, especially when they are simply following the customer’s instructions.

While Martin Luther King, Jr.’s January birthday has been a national holiday for nearly four decades, the four-year-old Juneteenth federal holiday already holds greater promise for civic education. Precisely because a more racially contentious dynamic has unfolded around Juneteenth, this relatively recent celebration has opened the door to a focused telling of Black history.

By FOSTER KLUG and KIM TONG-HYUNG (Associated Press) SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Don’t believe the name: The Demilitarized Zone between the two rival Koreas might be the most heavily armed place on earth. Two million mines, barbed wire fences, tank traps and tens of thousands of troops from both countries patrol a divided swath of land 248 kilometers (154 miles) long and 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) wide. So how, on the eve of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s summit Wednesday with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, did as many as 30 North Korean soldiers wander over the line separating North from South, causing South Korea to fire warning shots before the North Koreans withdrew? The short answer appears to be shrubbery: Because of an overgrowth of foliage, the North Koreans may not have seen the signs marking the thin military demarcation line that divides the DMZ into northern and southern sides. But, more deeply, it can also be understood in light of the long, often violent history of the unique border set up after the 1950-53 Korean War.