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Since the beginning of last season — since the Yankees moved on from them — Lance Lynn leads major league pitchers in Wins Above Replacement (Baseball Reference), ahead of Jacob deGrom and Gerrit Cole. Sonny Gray is sixth, ahead of Shane Bieber and Max Scherzer. Pick your reason why this has occurred: 1) the Yankees …

Don’t expect any big splashes from Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen before next Monday’s trade deadline. Van Wagenen, who traded prospects for Marcus Stroman at last year’s deadline, said Monday he expected a quieter deadline around MLB — and in Queens, as teams figure to be cautious due to the uncertainty of the season. …

Jenna Bush Hager posted a heartfelt tribute Monday to her father-in-law, former Virginia Lt. Gov. John Hager, following his death. Jenna Bush Hager and Henry HagerGetty Images “He was a giant of a man—although, I never saw him stand. He lived with polio—paralyzed from the waist down—in a wheel chair, for forty five years,” Bush …

Miley Cyrus paid tribute to her grandmother, Loretta Jean “Mammie” Palmer, on Twitter following her passing Saturday at the age of 85. Loretta was the mother of Miley’s mother, Tish Cyrus. “Even though you are gone…. NOTHING has or ever will change,” wrote Cyrus in dedication to her granny. “You will FOREVER be my inspiration …

John Travolta recently paid tribute to his late wife, sharing a sweet video of himself dancing with 20-year-old daughter Ella in honor of “momma” Kelly Preston. “My daughter @ella.travolta and I dancing in memory of momma,” the veteran actor captioned the heartfelt clip on Instagram. “One of Kelly’s favorite things, dancing with me.” The 66-year-old …

Frankie Banali, the drummer for heavy metal band Quiet Riot, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 68. His wife Regina wrote in a statement that he had been battling stage four pancreatic cancer since April 2019. The longtime Quiet Riot drummer also played with Billy Idol, W.A.S.P. and Faster Pussycat. “He put up an inspiringly …

Larry King has suffered a terrible tragedy, Page Six has learned. We’re told that two of the legendary broadcaster’s children have died in the last three weeks. Sources say that his son Andy passed suddenly a couple of weeks ago, and his daughter, Chaia, died Thursday after battling a chronic illness. Chaia was 51 and …

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Zavion Davenport, better known by her stage name Chi Chi DeVayne, has died at 34. Chi Chi, who appeared on the eighth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” as well as the show’s “All Stars” spinoff, lost her battle with pneumonia after entering the hospital last week, EW confirmed. In one of …

The Great Depression of the 1930s was by far the greatest economic calamity in U.S. history. In 1931, the year before Franklin Roosevelt was elected president, unemployment in the United States had soared to an unprecedented 16.3 percent. In human terms that meant that over eight million Americans who wanted jobs could not find them. …

Dean Buonomano, a professor at UCLA and author of “Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time“, gives a simple explanation of the theory of eternalism. Following is a transcript of the video. It seems that everything in the universe has already happened under eternalism. In the context of physics, there’s …