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New York Times
28-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Nolan Arenado ‘puts a bow' on Cardinals' Opening Day win: ‘It meant a lot to me today'
ST. LOUIS — Not one to be overly reflective or sentimental — at least not right before a baseball game — the always intense Nolan Arenado found himself caught off guard by the fan reception as he was introduced as the St. Louis Cardinals' Opening Day third baseman for the fifth consecutive year. Thunderous applause and roaring cheers followed Arenado throughout the day: When he first took the field on the back of a Ford-150 truck — a home opener tradition — and circled the field, when he was introduced before his first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning and during each of his at-bats that followed. Advertisement But nothing compared to the bottom of the eighth inning, when Arenado turned on a high fastball up in the zone from Minnesota Twins reliever Griffin Jax, sending it over the left-center fence and sending Busch Stadium into a frenzy. Arenado's solo shot provided a key late-game insurance run and ultimately sealed the Cardinals' 5-3 win over the Twins on Thursday night, making for a very happy home opener for the nearly 50,000 fans who braved stormy weather that threatened to cancel the game altogether. But the messaging behind the homer was even larger than what it represented in the box score, for both player and team. For most of the offseason, Arenado didn't believe he would be a Cardinal come Opening Day. The Cardinals didn't think so either. The club was candid — perhaps to a fault — regarding its extensive efforts to trade the face of the franchise, hoping to clear up both payroll and roster space. Those attempts were ill-fated. Arenado took the turmoil in stride. And in return, a sell-out crowd of 47,395 made sure he felt the love. 'It meant a lot to me today,' Arenado said after the game. 'I took it all in today — and I usually don't, but today I did. The way (the fans) cheered for me, it meant a lot to me and got me motivated. I was just fortunate to give them something to cheer about again. So I want to thank them for that.' Nolan Arenado pads the @Cardinals lead with a big home run! #OpeningDay — MLB (@MLB) March 28, 2025 Cardinal fans had plenty to cheer for Thursday. Opening Day starter Sonny Gray notched five innings of two-run ball, despite battling an illness earlier in the week and still searching for consistent velocity. Newly-minted leadoff hitter Lars Nootbaar went 2-for-4 with a home run of his own — a two-run shot to right field in the bottom of the second for the first Cardinals homer of the year. Brendan Donovan and Iván Herrera both drove in runs, and the Cardinals banged out 10 total hits. Advertisement Donovan and Victor Scott II both made stellar defensive plays that shut down rally chances for Minnesota. With one on and one out (and Gray's pitch count climbing) Donovan laid out to his left and snagged a hot shot from Carlos Correa and turned a double play from his stomach to end the frame. With two runners on and one out the following frame, Scott chased down a deep fly ball in right center and saved at least one run, if not more. The bullpen picked up where it left off last year, with Kyle Leahy, John King, Chris Roycroft and Phil Maton combining for one earned run, three hits and one walk over the next three innings. That set the tone for closer Ryan Helsley, who racked up three strikeouts in the ninth to slam the door and cement an Opening Day win. 'Who are the St. Louis Cardinals?' Gray asked. 'I think that game can embody who we can be.' Victor Scott II shows off the range! — St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) March 27, 2025 Manager Oli Marmol was pleased with his team's effort, commending the Cardinals for their aggressive at-bats and smart base running. 'You can talk about all of these different words, being electric, bringing energy, relentless — and then actually doing it,' Marmol said. 'They did exactly that. They're running all over the field, making plays, stealing bases. Our at-bats? That is what a relentless at-bat looks like, one through nine. Our at-bats and our style of play was exactly that.' While Marmol certainly had plenty to smile about, Arenado's homer was arguably the highest on the list. 'Put a pretty nice bow on (the game), to be quite honest,' Marmol said. 'He's worked really hard this offseason to come back and show what he's capable of doing and what he's done for a very long time. That homer, that's a big homer. It's probably more meaningful than people think.' Advertisement Busch Stadium recognized the moment in real time. The home fans rose to their feet as Arenado's homer moved through the evening sky. They remained standing as he circled the bags and descended the steps into the dugout. And they stayed that way until he reemerged from the dugout for a curtain call — much like they did in 2021, when he hit a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning of his first home opener as a Cardinal. It made for a full circle moment for Arenado, five years in the making. It was also a moment he didn't know he needed. 'I honestly wasn't expecting fans to be that loud,' Arenado said. 'That hit me a little bit. I was pretty pumped up about it. When I touched my heart, I was basically saying thank you.' Drizzly weather, fan angst and mixed messaging regarding the organization's current direction did nothing to dampen the spirits in downtown St. Louis. The Cardinals rewarded their fanbase with a good, clean ball game and picked up an Opening Day win. Things are far from fixed in St. Louis, and one victory won't change that. But as the celebratory fireworks lit up the evening sky as Arenado touched home plate with the force of an entire stadium rallying behind him, it felt like a classic Cardinal baseball moment. Perhaps that's what everyone — the team, the fanbase and Arenado — needed the most.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Yahoo
Three illegal immigrants charged after fiery Texas crash leaves one dead
Three illegal immigrants have been charged in connection with a deadly drunk-driving crash Saturday night on a highway in Arlington, Texas. According to the Arlington Police Department, 25-year-old Cesar Ramirez Castro was driving a Ford-150 when he swerved onto the shoulder of I-20, slamming the truck into a parked vehicle. The vehicle then collided with a concrete barrier, setting it ablaze. When the fire was extinguished, a 22-year-old man was found dead inside the vehicle. Venezuela To Resume Accepting Us Deportation Flights Police charged Ramirez Castro with one count of intoxication manslaughter and one count of collision involving death. Read On The Fox News App According to jail records, he has an immigration hold. Two passengers in the vehicle, 30-year-old Marcelino Ramirez-Ramirez and 24-year-old Daniel Castro Zammarron, were both arrested on one count of public intoxication. Democrat Mayor Blasted For Vowing To Make Major City 'Safe Haven' For Illegal Immigrants Both men also have immigration holds. Last week, an illegal immigrant living in Georgia was charged with capital murder after allegedly killing Camilia Williams, a 52-year-old mother of five and grandmother. David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, 21, a Honduran national, has been charged with capital murder. He was caught and released while crossing illegally into the United States under Biden administration policies in 2021. He was scheduled for removal from the country in 2023, but removal proceedings never article source: Three illegal immigrants charged after fiery Texas crash leaves one dead
Fox News
24-03-2025
- Fox News
Three illegal immigrants charged after fiery Texas crash leaves one dead
Three illegal immigrants have been charged in connection with a deadly drunk-driving crash Saturday night on a highway in Arlington, Texas. According to the Arlington Police Department, 25-year-old Cesar Ramirez Castro was driving a Ford-150 when he swerved onto the shoulder of I-20, slamming the truck into a parked vehicle. The vehicle then collided with a concrete barrier, setting it ablaze. When the fire was extinguished, a 22-year-old man was found dead inside the vehicle. Police charged Ramirez Castro with one count of intoxication manslaughter and one count of collision involving death. According to jail records, he has an immigration hold. Two passengers in the vehicle, 30-year-old Marcelino Ramirez-Ramirez and 24-year-old Daniel Castro Zammarron, were both arrested on one count of public intoxication. Both men also have immigration holds. Last week, an illegal immigrant living in Georgia was charged with capital murder after allegedly killing Camilia Williams, a 52-year-old mother of five and grandmother. David Hector Rivas-Sagastume, 21, a Honduran national, has been charged with capital murder. He was caught and released while crossing illegally into the United States under Biden administration policies in 2021. He was scheduled for removal from the country in 2023, but removal proceedings never occurred.
Yahoo
25-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Democrats need to stop focusing on voters' skin colour, says party rising star
Adam Frisch would have to hurry, he realised, if he was to make his pitch to become the next vice-chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to every minority group on the schedule. Starting the day at the Disability Caucus (10 - 11.30am), he and 18 other candidates were due at the Women's Caucus, the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, the American Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus and the Native Caucus all in the space of a single afternoon. Mr Frisch, a 57-year-old former banker, was no stranger to hustling for votes. Over two runs for Colorado's 3rd District, a vast tract of land spanning ski slopes, cattle-farms and dusty plains, he had driven his red Ford-150 truck more than 77,000 miles. In 2022, he came within 554 votes (0.16 per cent) of pro-Trump firebrand Lauren Boebert, despite predictions of a Republican walk-over typical in the state. She fled the area rather than face a re-run in 2024. 'I know you guys aren't looking for a straight, middle aged, white, fairly successful male to be running around the Democratic banner,' he told party officials ahead of his first run, but argued his unorthodox views would help him build a 'winning coalition'. In 2024, he ran the Republicans surprisingly close again, buoyed by a willingness to break Democratic taboos. In one campaign advert he wielded a shot-gun on a hunting trip. His priorities were 'border security', 'inflation' and 'protecting our water'. And he was the first candidate to call for Joe Biden to step down after his semi-catatonic debate performance. But when it came to the vote at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention centre on the outskirts of Washington DC, Mr Frisch's appeal fell flat. On Feb 1, the 450 members of the Democratic National Committee, the group that organises the party's policy platform, voter outreach and fundraising, chose three other vice-chairmen, including David Hogg, the 24-year-old gun control activist. As chairmen they elected Ken Martin, a staffer on Kamala Harris's campaign who argued that the party 'already has the right message' – it just needed to do better in delivering it. The DNC vote supercharged many Democrats' fears that the party is failing to fully reckon with the electoral wipe-out it suffered against Donald Trump, a man it painted as a Nazi-sympathising felon. 'The Democratic Party is still slicing and dicing up the electorate in a way that the electorate is not voting anymore,' said Mr Frisch, who is running for Colorado's 3rd district again in 2026. 'Instead of looking at people as Americans and fathers and husbands, mothers and daughters,' it tries to break voters down into sub-groups defined by ethnicity or single-issue concerns, such as climate change or reproductive rights Democrat support has collapsed among ethnic minorities, including every caucus group that Mr Frisch pitched to at the DNC vote. The only two groups whom Ms Harris boosted Democratic vote share against Mr Biden were university-educated whites and people making more than $100,000 per year. Over three days at the Gaylord Hotel, 'there was never a conversation about, what should we do to try to figure out how to build a winning coalition?' 'There was no How-to-Win caucus,' or even one on 'What Happened' in 2024, Mr Frisch said. 'The lack of intellectual curiosity, or political curiosity about looking at some of the top performers [against Republicans], whether they've won or lost, is political malpractice,' he added. One month into Mr Trump's second administration, the Democrats have been reduced to little more than by-standers. Polls show the party with its lowest-ever approval rating. Gone are the days of Mr Trump's first term, when young voters joined up in droves and tens of thousands took to the streets in protest. To appeal once more to a scornful electorate, a long and painful process of minimising the influence of 'The Groups' must begin, Mr Frisch argues. In the parlance of Capitol Hill, 'The Groups' refers to the single-issue NGOs which have taken on huge influence within the Democratic Party, furnishing campaigns with staff and ready-made political programmes. These organisations mushroomed after Mr Trump's first victory, with large numbers of voters donating to the progressive causes closest to their heart – be it Black Lives Matter, Planned Parenthood, or the Sierra Club, an environmental lobbying group. In just a few days after Mr Trump's 2017 'Muslim Ban', the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised $24.1 million from 350,000 online donations, almost half the entire annual expenditure of the Conservative Party. The real risk from 'The Groups' is that they started to work together as a sort of Left-wing 'Supergroup', Mr Frisch said, discouraging candidates from speaking their own mind. Planned Parenthood's website still boasts of its support for Defunding the Police; a colleague of Mr Frisch's was told she would lose the support of a reproductive rights group if she did not soften her stance on immigration. 'Members of Congress are kind of afraid to talk about it publicly, just the amount of influence and money that goes into this', he said. And it has come at transparent electoral cost. In recent years, 'The Groups' bombarded candidates with tick-box questionnaires, challenging them to prove their liberal bona-fides – and thus gain the support (or risk the opposition) of their large memberships. On the road, Mr Frisch regularly ignored the missives. But it was a long-forgotten answer by Ms Harris to one of these questionnaires, sent out in 2019 by the ACLU, that became the focus of the Trump administration's last advertising blitz ahead of the November 5 vote. 'Kamala Harris is for they/them,' the advert said. 'President Trump is for you!' In her reply to the questionnaire, Ms Harris had promised to support government-funded surgeries for transgender prisoners, as well as cut funding for ICE and end the detention of illegal immigrants. Viewers of the Trump campaign advert swung 2.7 per cent in favour of the Republicans, according to one poll. Sending out the questionnaire was a 'step too far' for the ACLU, said David Golberger, a former lawyer for the organisation who famously defended the rights of Nazis to parade through the town of Skokie in 1977. 'That's getting involved in partisan politics,' Mr Goldberger told The Telegraph, lamenting his former employer's shift into the equivalent of a progressive pressure-group. On a formal level, the Democratic Party does not yet appear to have learnt the lessons from its embrace of positions that only appeal to '10 or 20 per cent' of the electorate, Mr Frisch said. At the Climate Caucus, he repeated his long-standing position that America should drill for its own gas. Colorado has plentiful supplies and it is cleaner, cheaper and less ethically dubious than importing energy from Russia or China. He was taken to task over lacking a long-term view of the risks of climate change. 'I said: 'I'm very aware of where the earth is now, and I'm very aware of where the earth is going to be in 20 years, but the vast majority of voters have 20 days to pay rent'.' Ahead of the final vote for the DNC vice-chairmen, Jaime Harrison, the former chairman, announced that voting procedures would have to change to incorporate the entry of a non-binary candidate. Republican social media channels gleefully shared footage of Mr Harrison appearing to lose track of his words as he instructed members how to treat a person 'neither male nor female' without violating the DNC's requirement of gender-parity across seven VC positions. In the audience, Mr Frisch said it was like watching a 'Saturday night level skit'. The best-known of the three vice-chairmen elected ahead of him is Mr Hogg, who survived the 2018 Parkland High School massacre. Locked inside a classroom, Mr Hogg interviewed his terrified friends about their views on gun control as the gunman shot dead 17 pupils in the corridors outside. Telegenic and Harvard-educated, the founder of 'March for our Lives' gun-control movement has gone on to create 'Leaders We Deserve', a PAC aimed at electing Generation Z candidates to political office. But his recipe for the Democratic Party's recovery does not track with Mr Frisch's. When a pro-gun Democrat lost her race in Alaska last year, Mr Hogg celebrated the defeat as 'good riddance'. Within two weeks of taking office at the DNC, he had used its access to vast contacts lists to send out fundraising messages for Leaders We Deserve, the PAC from which he draws a $100,000 annual salary. 'I was just elected DNC Vice Chair!,' one text read. 'This is a huge win for our movement to make the Democratic Party more reflective of our base.' For Mr Frisch, the Democratic Party, if anything, needs to head in the opposite direction – and become more open to winning the support of sceptical swing voters. Responding to the text, the former currency trader sighed: 'That's God's gift to Fox News,' he said. 'Getting to the base is not the problem,' he said. 'It's adding people to your base' that the Democrats need to focus on, if they are not to face long years in the political wilderness. That is the message he will continue to take over thousands, if not tens of thousands more hard miles of driving the highways of Colorado. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
25-02-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Democrats need to stop focusing on voters' skin colour, says party rising star
Adam Frisch would have to hurry, he realised, if he was to make his pitch to become the next vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to every minority group on the schedule. Starting the day at the Disability Caucus (10 - 11.30am), he and 18 other candidates were due at the Women's Caucus, the Black Caucus, the Hispanic Caucus, the American Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus and the Native Caucus all in the space of a single afternoon. Mr Frisch, a 57-year-old former banker, was no stranger to hustling for votes. Over two runs for Colorado's 3rd District, a vast tract of land spanning ski slopes, cattle-farms and dusty plains, he had driven his red Ford-150 truck more than 77,000 miles. In 2022, he came within 554 votes (0.16 per cent) of pro-Trump firebrand Lauren Boebert, despite predictions of a Republican walk-over typical in the state. She fled the area rather than face a re-run in 2024. 'I know you guys aren't looking for a straight, middle aged, white, fairly successful male to be running around the Democratic banner,' he told party officials ahead of his first run, but argued his unorthodox views would help him build a 'winning coalition'. In 2024, he ran the Republicans surprisingly close again, buoyed by a willingness to break Democratic taboos. In one campaign advert he wielded a shot-gun on a hunting trip. His priorities were 'border security', 'inflation' and 'protecting our water'. And he was the first candidate to call for Joe Biden to step down after his semi-catatonic debate performance. But when it came to the vote at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention centre on the outskirts of Washington DC, Mr Frisch's appeal fell flat. On Feb 1, the 450 members of the Democratic National Committee, the group that organises the party's policy platform, voter outreach and fundraising, chose three other vice-chairmen, including David Hogg, the 24-year-old gun control activist. As chairmen they elected Ken Martin, a staffer on Kamala Harris's campaign who argued that the party 'already has the right message' – it just needed to do better in delivering it. The DNC vote supercharged many Democrats' fears that the party is failing to fully reckon with the electoral wipe-out it suffered against Donald Trump, a man it painted as a Nazi-sympathising felon. 'The Democratic Party is still slicing and dicing up the electorate in a way that the electorate is not voting anymore,' said Mr Frisch, who is running for Colorado's 3rd district again in 2026. 'Instead of looking at people as Americans and fathers and husbands, mothers and daughters,' it tries to break voters down into sub-groups defined by ethnicity or single-issue concerns, such as climate change or reproductive rights Democrat support has collapsed among ethnic minorities, including every caucus group that Mr Frisch pitched to at the DNC vote. The only two groups whom Ms Harris boosted Democratic vote share against Mr Biden were university-educated whites and people making more than $100,000 per year. Over three days at the Gaylord Hotel, 'there was never a conversation about, what should we do to try to figure out how to build a winning coalition?' 'There was no How-to-Win caucus,' or even one on 'What Happened' in 2024, Mr Frisch said. 'The lack of intellectual curiosity, or political curiosity about looking at some of the top performers [against Republicans], whether they've won or lost, is political malpractice,' he added. One month into Mr Trump's second administration, the Democrats have been reduced to little more than by-standers. Polls show the party with its lowest-ever approval rating. Gone are the days of Mr Trump's first term, when young voters joined up in droves and tens of thousands took to the streets in protest. To appeal once more to a scornful electorate, a long and painful process of minimising the influence of 'The Groups' must begin, Mr Frisch argues. In the parlance of Capitol Hill, 'The Groups' refers to the single-issue NGOs which have taken on huge influence within the Democratic Party, furnishing campaigns with staff and ready-made political programmes. These organisations mushroomed after Mr Trump's first victory, with large numbers of voters donating to the progressive causes closest to their heart – be it Black Lives Matter, Planned Parenthood, or the Sierra Club, an environmental lobbying group. In just a few days after Mr Trump's 2017 'Muslim Ban', the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) raised $24.1 million from 350,000 online donations, almost half the entire annual expenditure of the Conservative Party. The real risk from 'The Groups' is that they started to work together as a sort of Left-wing 'Supergroup', Mr Frisch said, discouraging candidates from speaking their own mind. Planned Parenthood's website still boasts of its support for Defunding the Police; a colleague of Mr Frisch's was told she would lose the support of a reproductive rights group if she did not soften her stance on immigration. 'Members of Congress are kind of afraid to talk about it publicly, just the amount of influence and money that goes into this', he said. And it has come at transparent electoral cost. In recent years, 'The Groups' bombarded candidates with tick-box questionnaires, challenging them to prove their liberal bona-fides – and thus gain the support (or risk the opposition) of their large memberships. On the road, Mr Frisch regularly ignored the missives. But it was a long-forgotten answer by Ms Harris to one of these questionnaires, sent out in 2019 by the ACLU, that became the focus of the Trump administration's last advertising blitz ahead of the November 5 vote. 'Kamala Harris is for they/them,' the advert said. 'President Trump is for you!' In her reply to the questionnaire, Ms Harris had promised to support government-funded surgeries for transgender prisoners, as well as cut funding for ICE and end the detention of illegal immigrants. Viewers of the Trump campaign advert swung 2.7 per cent in favour of the Republicans, according to one poll. Sending out the questionnaire was a 'step too far' for the ACLU, said David Golberger, a former lawyer for the organisation who famously defended the rights of Nazis to parade through the town of Skokie in 1977. 'That's getting involved in partisan politics,' Mr Goldberger told The Telegraph, lamenting his former employer's shift into the equivalent of a progressive pressure-group. On a formal level, the Democratic Party does not yet appear to have learnt the lessons from its embrace of positions that only appeal to '10 or 20 per cent' of the electorate, Mr Frisch said. At the Climate Caucus, he repeated his long-standing position that America should drill for its own gas. Colorado has plentiful supplies and it is cleaner, cheaper and less ethically dubious than importing energy from Russia or China. He was taken to task over lacking a long-term view of the risks of climate change. 'I said: 'I'm very aware of where the earth is now, and I'm very aware of where the earth is going to be in 20 years, but the vast majority of voters have 20 days to pay rent'.' Ahead of the final vote for the DNC vice-chairmen, Jaime Harrison, the former chairman, announced that voting procedures would have to change to incorporate the entry of a non-binary candidate. Republican social media channels gleefully shared footage of Mr Harrison appearing to lose track of his words as he instructed members how to treat a person 'neither male nor female' without violating the DNC's requirement of gender-parity across seven VC positions. In the audience, Mr Frisch said it was like watching a 'Saturday night level skit'. The best-known of the three vice-chairmen elected ahead of him is Mr Hogg, who survived the 2018 Parkland High School massacre. Locked inside a classroom, Mr Hogg interviewed his terrified friends about their views on gun control as the gunman shot dead 17 pupils in the corridors outside. Telegenic and Harvard-educated, the founder of 'March for our Lives' gun-control movement has gone on to create 'Leaders We Deserve', a PAC aimed at electing Generation Z candidates to political office. But his recipe for the Democratic Party's recovery does not track with Mr Frisch's. When a pro-gun Democrat lost her race in Alaska last year, Mr Hogg celebrated the defeat as 'good riddance'. Within two weeks of taking office at the DNC, he had used its access to vast contacts lists to send out fundraising messages for Leaders We Deserve, the PAC from which he draws a $100,000 annual salary. 'I was just elected DNC Vice Chair!,' one text read. 'This is a huge win for our movement to make the Democratic Party more reflective of our base.' For Mr Frisch, the Democratic Party, if anything, needs to head in the opposite direction – and become more open to winning the support of sceptical swing voters. Responding to the text, the former currency trader sighed: 'That's God's gift to Fox News,' he said. 'Getting to the base is not the problem,' he said. 'It's adding people to your base' that the Democrats need to focus on, if they are not to face long years in the political wilderness. That is the message he will continue to take over thousands, if not tens of thousands more hard miles of driving the highways of Colorado.
