The Braves defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-4, on Tuesday to advance to the National League Championship Series (NLCS), where they’ll face either the San Fransisco Giants or Los Angeles Dodgers. The winner of the NLCS will then advance to the World Series to play the champion of the American League, either the Boston Red Sox or Houston Astros. So, while Major League Baseball (MLB) shipped this years’ All-Star Game and its surrounding events like the Home Run Derby out of Georgia, there is a chance that the World Series, the pinnacle of professional baseball, could end up in Atlanta after all....

Levenson said in a letter to the league that he self-reported the email to the NBA and commissioner Adam Silver and will seek to sell the team immediately. The email, sent in 2012, was in regard to ticket sales and reaching out to “a more diverse fan base that includes more suburban whites,” Levenson wrote. MORE: Shelly Sterling offers details on husband, Clippers sale | Scout: Exum ’not ready for NBA'...

Eight people died in the violence at three massage parlors in and near the city early Tuesday evening. Police arrested Robert Aaron Long in connection with the shootings at about 8.30 p.m. in Crisp County, which is about 150 miles south of Atlanta. In a press conference, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms revealed that the suspect had been travelling to Florida to potentially carry out more shootings when he was arrested....

Griezmann was booked for diving during the second half as Atletico sought to haul back a 2-0 deficit and referee Juan Martinez Munera dismissed him almost immediately for his reaction to the punishment. Atletico 4/5 to beat Las Palmas The report handed in by the official said Griezmann had called him “cagon”, which translates as “chickens***”. The Royal Spanish Football Federation’s (RFEF) disciplinary committee deemed the France star’s reaction to be “unjustifiable” and an act of “contempt and disregard” towards Munera....

“Less Covid, more hunting, that’s the plan for the future,” Noem said in the video, which was captioned: “This is how we do social distancing in South Dakota.” The Republican governor has been reluctant to introduce strict measures aimed at tackling the coronavirus pandemic, declaring earlier this year that there would be no social distancing at a July 3 celebration attended by President Donald Trump at Mount Rushmore. She is also a vocal advocate for hunting....

Lee earned the gold medal for Team USA on Thursday morning in a tighly contested battle. Three gymnasts finished within 0.5 points of Lee’s top score (57.433), including the silver medalist, Rebeca Andrade, who finished within 0.2 points. But after taking the lead during the third rotation on the balance beam, Lee never looked back. She executed a nearly flawless floor routine to earn the victory. The 18-year-old Lee became the first Hmong-American to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games....

‘RAW’ thoughts Am I the only one who … … has mixed feelings about Braun Strowman’s heel turn? Yes, it would make more sense to turn Roman Reigns heel and keep Strowman babyface, but there’s probably a better chance of Lana having a five-star match than there is of Vince McMahon ever turning “The Big Dog.” However, I don’t totally hate the idea of Strowman being a bad guy again....

‘RAW’ thoughts Am I the only one who … … found Bobby Lashley’s sit-down interview to be bizarre? Last week I wrote that we really needed to hear something from Lashley, whether it’s a promo, video package or sit-down interview. We actually got a video package and a sit-down interview. The package, which chronicled Lashley’s upbringing, military service, amateur athletic career, his first WWE run and MMA career, was fine. The sit-down interview, however, was different to say the least....

MORE: Looking back: Rousey vs. Tate And if you ask the woman who lost the title to Nunes, Miesha Tate, Rousey better be ready. “It’s really, really hard to say, because who knows what we’re going to get out of Ronda when she comes back," Tate told “The MMA Hour.” “If we’re getting Ronda at the best that she’s ever been, then I’d say Ronda (would win the fight). But if we’re getting Ronda coming back with a half-ass mentality, kind of like ‘I just feel like I have to do this one time,’ and then she’s got a lot of ring rust and maybe she’s still punch-shy since she hasn’t fought since Holly, and we all saw that obviously Amanda has incredible power with her right hand — so if she hits Ronda with one of those, I could see it being a huge problem for Ronda....

It’s a move that — like some other trades this offseason — seems to favor one team over the other. In this case, it appears the Browns made a low-risk, high-reward move to acquire Cooper. The Cowboys, meanwhile, were forced into a trade that amounted to little more than a salary dump after signing Cooper to a five-year, $100 million contract in 2020. MORE: Amari Cooper trade details As is so often the case, only time will tell if this trade benefits one team more than the other, if at all....

Prior to hosting the series, the first six episodes of which are streaming now on Netflix, she spent a decade working for the CIA, after joining the spy agency at 22. In college, she created an algorithm that revealed likely terrorist safe havens, which secured her a job. For most of this time, she worked under what is called “nonofficial cover,” living abroad under a false identity and without an official passport of diplomatic protections....

Four of the photos can be seen below. They were taken from the International Space Station as it orbited around 270 miles above the southern Indian Ocean between Asia and Antarctica. The photos were released by NASA’s Johnson space center on August 2. The images show the polar lights glowing in a range of colors, from an eerie green to a bright violet. Above the lights, vast numbers of stars can be seen shining many light years away....

The truth is, our work has been crucial for a lot of people. We’ve picked and packed and expedited vital supplies, from masks and hand sanitizer to groceries and toilet paper. Customers enjoy speed and efficiency and the chance to stay home and stay healthy—but at a high price for workers. In the warehouse today, we are reduced to pieces in a giant machine that mandates efficiency and speed. A worker is valued only for productivity....

A spokesperson told Newsweek the agency, part of the Department of Labor, was taking “swift and decisive action to protect America’s workers” amid the coronavirus pandemic. It has received complaints across various industries as workers fulfill their duties while attempting to adapt to the threat of coronavirus. “We’ve implemented over 150 significant process changes—from enhanced cleaning and social distancing measures to new efforts like disinfectant spraying,” Levandowski said. “We’ve also distributed personal protective gear like masks across our entire operations network....

Although the company promised to pay employees who have been diagnosed with the virus up to two weeks of pay, multiple workers who meet the standards for sick leave say they have not received pay or only got a reduced amount, according to a Wednesday report from CNBC. Kish added that workers sent home with a fever would be given “up to five hours” of their pay for the day, which would equate to a little under 60 percent of an eight-hour day....

In the aftermath of Depp’s court victory over ex-wife Amber Heard, who a jury found had defamed Depp with malice, the actress has given a post-trial interview to Today co-host Guthrie that is set to air on Friday night on NBC. “If Mr. Depp or his team have a problem with this, we recommend that Johnny himself sit down with Savannah Guthrie for an hour and answer all her questions,” a spokesperson for Heard told Newsweek....

Unlike international advocacy forums, my friends and neighbors in Kocho did not want me to repeat and relive my experience in ISIS captivity. My story is not exceptional in the Yazidi community. We are a small ethno-religious minority indigenous to northern Iraq that has historically been relegated to the margins of Iraqi society. ISIS exploited this vulnerability in an attempt to eradicate the Yazidi faith, along with other ethnic and religious minorities....

For three and a half years, the small but influential Persian Gulf state of Qatar has been the black sheep of the Gulf Arab family—cut off from its immediate neighbors, condemned as a miscreant seeking to undermine the internal affairs of other Arab nations, and accused by some of the region’s governments of being a terrorist-sponsoring state. In June 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump’s state visit to Saudi Arabia, Riyadh and its partners in the Gulf decided they had enough and sought to punish Doha for what it perceived as its bad, unneighborly behavior (Qatar strongly denied all of the allegations leveled against it)....

In a speech six months ago, former World Bank President and Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick reminded listeners of his own famous 2005 call on Beijing to become a “responsible stakeholder.” He ticked off a few of the ways in which China had done just that: voting for sanctions on North Korea and limiting missile exports, for instance. But he acknowledged that the project had gone off the rails....