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File photo of Virat Kohli.© BCCI Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has named his top 10 batters of IPL 2025, highlighting their strike-rate as the key criteria behind the picks. However, Manjrekar left Virat Kohli out of his list comprising of four Indian batters. Kohli leads the scoring charts for RCB this season with 248 runs in six matches at a decent strike-rate of 143.35 and an average of 62. He is the sixth highest run-scorer in the tournament this season, with Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) vice-captain Nicholas Pooran sitting at the top with 357 runs in seven…

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The White House has redirected COVID.gov to a new landing page called “Lab Leak: True Origins of COVID-19,” which makes a five-point argument for the theory that COVID-19 originated from a mistaken lab leak in Wuhan, China. Web page for https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/ on April 18, 2025.The White HouseThe new site appears to use theories from the final report of the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, released in December 2024. There has never been a consensus or a “smoking gun” to explain what started the pandemic. The COVID.gov page, as recently as last week, listed resources for testing, treatment, and vaccination against COVID-19, as well as…

File photo of Holger Rune© AFP Holger Rune ended Casper Ruud’s title defence in Barcelona with a 6-4, 6-2 win over the defending champion in the quarter-finals on Friday.World number 13 Rune broke Ruud twice in each set as he beat the 10th-ranked Norwegian for only the second time in eight attempts.The Dane will face Karen Khachanov in the semi-finals after the Russian overcame Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4, 7-5.Top seed Carlos Alcaraz continues his quest for a third Barcelona title in four years against Australia’s Alex de Minaur later on Friday.Stefanos Tsitsipas, a four-time runner-up at the…

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A federal judge on Friday ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana to be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper. U.S. District Judge William Sessions said he would hear Rumeysa Ozturk’s request to be released from detention. Her lawyers had requested that she be released immediately, or at least brought back to Vermont. The 30-year-old doctoral student was taken by immigration officials as she walked along a street in the Boston suburb of…

Trump White House border czar Tom Homan stood by the administration’s decision to defy court orders to “facilitate” the return to the U.S. of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran national the Justice Department said was erroneously deported to a prison in his home country, and waived off responsibility for the migrant’s status in an interview with ABC News.Homan spoke with “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl in an interview that will air this Sunday about the case and repeated the Trump administration’s allegations that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 member and a violent threat to the public.”We removed a public safety…

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Bayer Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso on Friday refused to shut down speculation he could be set for a move to Real Madrid in the summer. Madrid’s heavy Champions League quarter-final defeat by Arsenal could bring an end to Carlo Ancelotti’s second stint at the club, with Alonso believed to be the preferred replacement. Alonso spent five seasons at Madrid during his playing career, winning the Champions League and La Liga. After taking over as Leverkusen boss in October 2022, his first top-flight job, Alonso led the club to an unbeaten league and cup double last season, the first…

President Donald Trump has replaced the acting IRS commissioner just days after he appointed him.The new acting head is Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender, according to a statement on Friday from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.”Trust must be brought back to the IRS, and I am fully confident that Deputy Secretary Michael Faulkender is the right man for the moment,” Bessent said.Michael Faulkender, President Donald Trump’s pick to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, listens during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Finance on Capitol Hill, March 6, 2025, in Washington.Mark Schiefelbein/APFaulkender replaces Gary Shapley, a longtime IRS agent, whom…