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NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani won his third Most Valuable Player Award and first in the National League, and Aaron Judge earned his second American League honor on Thursday. Ohtani was a unanimous MVP for the third time, receiving all 30 first-place votes and 420 points in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor was second with 263 points and Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte third with 229. Judge was a unanimous pick for the first time. Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. got all 30 second-place votes for 270 points, and Yankees outfielder Juan Soto was third with 21 third-place votes and 229 points. Ohtani was unanimously voted the AL MVP in 2021 and 2023 as a two-way star for the Los Angeles Angels and finished second to Judge in 2022 voting. He didn't pitch in 2024 following elbow surgery and signed a record $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last December. Ohtani joined Frank Robinson for Cincinnati in 1961 and Baltimore in 1966 as the only players to win the MVP award in both leagues. He was the first player to twice become an unanimous MVP. He had combined with Atlanta outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. in 2023 for the first year both MVPs were unanimous. Ohtani hit .310, stole 59 bases and led the NL with 54 homers and 130 RBIs exclusively as a designated hitter, becoming the first player with 50 or more homers and 50 or more stolen bases in a season. He helped the Dodgers to the World Series title, playing the final three games with a torn labrum in his left shoulder. "The ultimate goal from the beginning was to win a World Series, which we are able to accomplish," he said through a translator. "The next goal is for me to do it again and so right now I'm in the middle of rehab and working out and getting stronger." When Ohtani returns to the mound, could he win MVP and the Cy Young Award in the same year? "That would obviously be great, but right now my focus is just to get to get back healthy, come back stronger, get back on the mound and show everybody what I can do," Ohtani said. Ohtani became the first primary DH to win an MVP in a season that started with the revelation his longtime interpreter and friend, Ippei Mizuhara, had stolen nearly $17 million from the star to fund gambling. Ohtani is the 12th player with three or more MVPs, joining Barry Bonds (seven) and Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols and Mike Trout (three each). Balloting was conducted before the postseason. Judge led the major leagues with 58 homers, 144 RBIs and 133 walks while hitting .322. Witt topped the big leagues with a .332 average, hitting 32 homers with 31 stolen bases and 109 RBIs. Soto batted .288 with 41 homers and 109 RBIs. When Judge won his first MVP award in 2022, he received 28 first-place votes while Ohtani got the other two. Judge had discussed the MVP award with Philadelphia's Bryce Harper, the NL winner in 2015 and '21. "I was telling him, `Man, I'm going to try to catch up to you with these MVPs here, man,'" Judge recalled. "He'd say, hopefully, he could stay a couple ahead of me, which I think he'll do." When Judge won his first MVP award in 2022, he received 28 first-place votes while Ohtani got the other two. He is the Yankees' 22nd MVP winner, four more than any other team. Judge was hitting .207 with six homers and 18 RBIs through April, then batted .352 with 52 homers and 126 RBIs in 127 games. "March and April were not my friend this year." Judge said. "Just keep putting in the work and things are going to change. You can't mope. You can't feel sorry for yourself. Especially in New York, nobody's going to feel sorry for you. So you just got to go out there and put up the numbers?" ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The St. Petersburg City Council reversed course Thursday on whether to spend more than $23 million to repair the hurricane-shredded roof of the Tampa Bay Rays' ballpark, initially voting narrowly for approval and hours later changing course. The reversal on fixing Tropicana Field came after the council voted to delay consideration of revenue bonds for a proposed new $1.3 billion Rays ballpark. Just two days before, the Pinellas County Commission postponed a vote on its share of the new stadium bonds, leaving that project in limbo. “This is a sad place. I'm really disappointed,” council chair Deborah Figg-Sanders said. “We won’t get there if we keep finding ways we can’t.” The Rays say the lack of progress puts the new stadium plan and the future of Tropicana Field in jeopardy. “I can't say I'm confident about anything,” Rays co-president Brian Auld told the council members. The Trop's translucent fiberglass roof was ripped to pieces on Oct. 9 when Hurricane Milton swept ashore just south of Tampa Bay. There was also significant water damage inside the ballpark, with a city estimate of the total repair costs pegged at $55.7 million. The extensive repairs cannot be finished before the 2026 season, city documents show. The Rays made a deal with the Yankees to play next season at 11,000-seat Steinbrenner Field, New York's spring training home across the bay in Tampa. The initial vote Thursday was to get moving on the roof portion of the repair. Once that's done, crews could begin working on laying down a new baseball field, fixing damaged seating and office areas and a variety of electronic systems — which would require another vote to approve money for the remaining restoration. The subsequent vote reversing funding for the roof repair essentially means the city and Rays must work on an alternative in the coming weeks so that Tropicana Field can possibly be ready for the 2026 season. The city is legally obligated to fix the roof. BRIEFLY PIRATES: Pittsburgh hired Matt Hague as its hitting coach, bringing him back to the team that drafted him in 2008. Hague replaces Andy Haines, who was fired after Pittsburgh finished in the bottom 10 in the majors in every significant statistical category last season, including runs (24th) and home runs (25th), while also striking out a club-record 1,504 times, second-most in the National League behind Colorado. The 39-year-old Hague spent last season as an assistant hitting coach with the Toronto Blue Jays. Get local news delivered to your inbox!Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Movie Set to Release in Mainland China on January 10th Next YearVikings withstand Bears' furious rally, win on field goal in OT

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The blame game has begun as Labor struggles to clear a logjam of legislation before the federal election. With 30 or so bills still before parliament and just one sitting week left in 2024, the Albanese government has taken aim at the Greens for stalling legislation. The minor party’s objection to the Help to Buy shared equity scheme and incentives for build-to-rent have ignited Labor’s ire as the government prepares to bring the bills for a final vote in the Senate in the upcoming days. “The Greens are going to the next election either as an effective party of protest, that has blocked and delayed action on things they say are important to them, or as a party that lets the government get on with addressing the housing needs of Australia,” Housing Minister Clare O’Neil told ABC Radio on Monday. The two housing bills have struggled to attract the support of the opposition or the Greens, with Labor knocking back fresh demands from the minor party. Central to the Greens’ updated position is funding for 25,000 “shovel-ready” homes not given the go-ahead under the first round of the Housing Australia Future Fund. Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather said his party had designed “a compromise offer that is popular, achievable and easy to accept, it requires no new legislation and sits broadly within government policy”. Labor insists the demand is unlawful and would result in the construction of million-dollar homes that are not value for money and could try push through the bill without support from the Greens. “The time for this negotiation and conversation was six months ago,” Ms O’Neil said. The federal government’s attack on the Greens follows the Queensland state election. The minor party lost a seat in the October contest, bolstering hopes for a Labor resurgence in the state at the upcoming federal election. Meanwhile, the federal government will try court the opposition’s support for its migration bill, which could result in the deportation of more than 80,000 people. A friendless crackdown on misinformation and disinformation has been shelved and gambling reforms have been pushed into 2025. Other proposals to establish an environment protection agency and cap the number of foreign student arrivals have reached a stalemate and cabinet minister have continued to point fingers. “You have populist, vote-grabbing parties like the Greens and the coalition,” Resources Minister Madeleine King told ABC Radio. “We’re trying to do the right thing for the Australian community, whereas they want to block this to be able to put out another TikTok. “It’s absolutely disgraceful.” To Labor’s relief, the government is expecting wins on its aged care reforms and its social media age limit, with the former expected to attract opposition support. Under world-first legislation, Australians younger than 16 will be banned from social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit and X. Labor will also be spruiking its Future Made in Australia plan, with its hydrogen and critical minerals production tax incentives to be introduced to parliament on Monday. The federal election is due to be held by May 17.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday took credit for building a strong economy out of the ruins of the COVID-19 pandemic — just in time for him to turn it over to President-elect Donald Trump , who is already threatening tariffs that would likely weaken it and bring back inflation. “The bottom line is, in four short years, we’ve come a long way ... from the crisis we inherited,” Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution think tank. “I’m not saying it was perfect, but it ends up at this moment the best economy, strongest economy in the world and, for all Americans, doing better.” The Democrat cited the jobs created under his administration, as well as clean energy and infrastructure projects begun all over the country, and said he hoped the man who both preceded him and will succeed him in the Oval Office does not undo them or follow through with his promised tariffs. “He seems determined to impose steep universal tariffs on all imported goods brought to this country, on the mistaken belief that foreign countries will bear the cost of those tariffs rather than the American consumer,” Biden said. “Who does he thinks pays for this? I believe this approach is a major mistake.” Trump, though, appears unlikely to heed that warning. Just after midnight Tuesday, he mockingly called Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the “Governor” of Canada, which he called a “State.” During Trudeau’s visit days earlier to the Republican’s South Florida country club home, Trump had reportedly told his guest that if he didn’t want tariffs imposed on Canada, his country should consider joining the U.S. as a new state. “I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. For the three years before the pandemic was declared in 2020, Trump claimed — falsely — that he had brought about the best economy in American history. In fact, it was about the same or, by some measures, not quite as strong as the one built under his predecessor Barack Obama in his second presidential term. More jobs were created in Obama’s final three years than in Trump’s first three. Obama had come into office amid a deep recession caused by 2008’s global economic crisis but, by the time he left, was overseeing an economy with moderate but steady growth, negligible inflation and low unemployment. Similarly, Biden took office just past the nadir of the pandemic, with vaccine distribution just having started but thousands of Americans still dying per day. Just over half of the more than 20 million jobs lost early in the pandemic had come back, but unemployment still stood at over 6%. Four years later, all of the lost jobs have been recovered and 7 million more created. The high inflation that struck during the recovery is back down and near prepandemic levels, and unemployment is close to historic lows. Still, voters made it clear throughout the 2024 presidential election that they preferred their memories of Trump’s economy to what they saw as Biden’s economic realities. The president’s attempts to sell “Bidenomics” in the summer of 2023 flopped, and after Vice President Kamala Harris took his spot in the White House race, the Democratic campaign largely stopped trying to sell the public on Biden’s accomplishments. Many voters felt their wages had not kept up with the rising costs of groceries and housing. Though official measurements are complicated, they broadly show that this was true in 2021 and 2022 but not true for the latter two years of Biden’s presidency. Nonetheless, Trump, once again, will be handed a strong economy as he enters office. Early in his first term, he quickly began claiming that the economy he’d been criticizing as horrendous during his campaign was instead the best the country had seen in ages. It’s unclear whether and when Trump might start claiming that the current economy, which he similarly suggested was horrible in this year’s campaign, is instead terrific, all thanks to him. But what is clear is his intent to impose tariffs on foreign goods, on an even larger scale than he did the first time around. In his initial term, Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum to help American makers of those metals, but set a wide range of tariffs on products from China, which in turn triggered retaliatory tariffs on American goods. That hurt both farmers and manufacturers, and caused business investment to fall for two straight quarters in 2019, a warning sign of an impending recession. Trump’s administration was scrambling to unwind the trade war ahead of the 2020 election when the pandemic began and sent the economy into free fall. This time, Trump is vowing tariffs against China again, as well as possibly imposing tariffs on Mexico and Canada — the two largest trading partners of the U.S. — in apparent violation of the trade agreement that he himself once signed. Don't let this be the end of the free press. 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