More GOP senators vow to challenge Biden's win thetelegraph.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thetelegraph.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Nationals hope Jackson Rutledge is their next great pitcher. He s getting there.
Jesse Dougherty, The Washington Post
Dec. 31, 2020
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Jackson Rutledge, shown on June 17, 2019, is one of the Nationals top prospects.Washington Post photo by Katherine Frey
Jackson Rutledge threw a pitch, felt his shoulder move in a way he didn t intend, then turned to Brad Holman, the Washington Nationals pitching coordinator, to break his delivery down. My scapula retraction was bad on that one, Holman recalled Rutledge telling him. This was this past summer at the Nationals alternate site in Fredericksburg, Va. The new stadium was empty. Few watched while Rutledge, the organization s top prospect, turned a routine bullpen session into a physics lab. The 21-year-old often pores over the spin efficiency of his pitches, horizontal and vertical break, how he can use his body - like his scapula, for example - to find optimal movement.
Trump splits GOP with push for $2,000 checks
Toluse Olorunnipa, (C) 2020, THE WASHINGTON POST
Dec. 30, 2020
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the Senate floor Tuesday after blocking an effort by Democrats to boost stimulus checks for millions of Americans to $2,000.Washington Post photo by Katherine Frey
WASHINGTON - Just as Republicans were rediscovering their fixation with the national debt in the wake of President-elect Joe Biden s victory, President Donald Trump scrambled the political calculus by calling on the government to write $2,000 checks to more than 150 million Americans.
The result has been a rapidly shifting realignment in Republican ideology. GOP officials just last week grudgingly signed off on $600 stimulus checks, tailored to meet their demand to keep the cost of a massive pandemic relief package under $1 trillion. Now, many have rushed to support the larger checks, which would add hundreds of billions of dollars to t
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Universities, cities and states are testing wastewater for the virus
Ovetta Wiggins, The Washington Post
Dec. 25, 2020
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1of3Allan Matovu-Barigye collects untreated wastewater at the Ballenger-McKinney treatment facility in Frederick, Md., on Dec. 18. Twice a week, samples are collected and sent to a lab in Rockville to be screened for the coronavirus.Washington Post photo by Katherine FreyShow MoreShow Less
2of3Samples of wastewater from the Ballenger-McKinney wastewater treatment facility in Frederick, Md., are collected twice a week and sent to a lab in Rockville, Md, to screen for the coronavirus. The wastewater facility is pictured on Dec. 18, 2020.Washington Post photo by Katherine FreyShow MoreShow Less