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He Announces Baseball Games in Spanish. It is Not His First Language.

Bill Kulik is a longtime Spanish language radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies. But listeners tuning in wouldn’t always know that. Instead of calling baseball’s championship by its Spanish name, “La Serie Mundial,” he calls it the World Series. He recently described a player’s up and down career as “a roller coaster” instead of “una

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As feminist language enters a presidential race, will it matter?

MEXICO CITY —  The two presidential front-runners grew up exposed to sharply different visions of what a woman in Mexico could aspire to be. In her impoverished home in the state of Hidalgo, Xóchitl Gálvez faced beatings from her alcoholic father, who once threatened to kill her mother. She’d hear the men in her family quip,

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Court of Sport rejects IBA appeal, IOC denounces leadership language

Lausanne, Switzerland – The International Boxing Association (IBA) failed to overturn its deprivation of recognition by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday rejected its urgent appeal. The CAS decision comes after the IOC decided two weeks ago to strip the IBA of its recognition as an

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Unacceptable language

ep – it was a “f-bomb” thrown this week in a visibly annoyed, some would say… “crazy”… Lina Hidalgo, presiding judge of the Harris County Commissioners Court. The unholy attack was directed against two of her Democratic colleagues along with the Democratic District Attorney and has yet to elicit the apology requested by our district’s

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Germany rejects criticism for softening gas language at G7 summit

The German government on Monday dismissed criticism for pushing for a relaxation of existing natural gas phase-out commitments at a summit of the leaders of the G-7 largest industrialized democracies, saying the final statement was in line with international efforts to combat climate change. Environmentalists have criticized the decision of Japan’s leaders to support the

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