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Heliot Ramos knows why the Yankees acquired him at the trade deadline: to help lift up a scuffling offense. 

News broke on Friday that de Nino died suddenly earlier this week at the age of 40.

News broke on Friday that de Nino died suddenly earlier this week at the age of 40.

Ohio McDonald's co-workers Jamie and George Callicoat tied the knot at their restaurant, where the bride even served a customer in her gown.

The Saints will be without their first-round wide receiver for an undetermined amount of time.

Juan Soto played at least 150 games in every full major league season he had appeared in before this season. 

Russia Admits Renewed Petrol Shortages After Recently Claiming Situation Was Stabilized

Russia has shut down one major refinery at Orsk, around 800 miles from the front line, for six months after it came under drone attack this week. It has also suffered more terminal outages due to continued attacks on a vital Black Sea energy port.

"Crude oil exports from Russia's Sheskharis terminal at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk were suspended on Friday following a ​drone attack, three sources familiar with the matter said, adding ‌to disruptions at one of the country's key export outlets," Reuters reports.

In a rare moment, the Russian government acknowledged that some regions of the country face new petrol shortages. "The situation remains tense in several regions of the country regarding fuel supplies to service stations," the government newly confirmed in a Friday social media post.

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Oil companies are "taking the necessary measures to increase deliveries to the most vulnerable regions," the official and somewhat rare statement added.

Krasnodar Oblast regional governor Venyamin Kondratyev separately stated, "The situation regarding petrol supplies at service stations has become complicated."

Oil companies "have again started imposing restrictions on the amount of fuel supplied and reduced service station opening hours," he continue.

"This is causing concern among the region's residents and visitors," the governor added, describing that he's urging external help to rush fuel supplies to the region.

Clear signs of the renewed crisis began emerging this week, including extremely long lines at fuel pumps. According to eyewitness accounts in one regional source:

Gas stations in at least 12 Russian regions are once again reporting hours-long lines for fuel, according to a count by the news outlet 7×7. The regions include Krasnodar Krai, the Voronezh, Kaluga, Rostov, Ryazan, Tambov, Tula, Saratov, Smolensk, Penza, and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as Primorsky Krai.

Purchase limits have also returned. The Sochi city administration announced August 11 that gas stations in the region had imposed limits “due to logistical disruptions in fuel supply,” and it asked local residents and tourists to “refrain from using personal vehicles whenever possible” to ease the strain on gas stations.

In the Orenburg region, Governor Yevgeny Solntsev reported a “difficult situation with fuel.” Starting August 12, gas stations there capped purchases at 30 liters (about 8 gallons) of gasoline and 60 liters (about 16 gallons) of diesel and adopted an “odd-even” system: drivers with license plates ending in an even digit can fill up on even-numbered days, while everyone else fills up on odd-numbered days. Solntsev also promised to bring in police officers “to coordinate the situation at gas stations.”

It was only two weeks ago that Kremlin officials declared that the crisis - which was very evident earlier this summer especially in Crimea - was abating and that supplies were headed back toward being fully operational.

Reports that shortages have even hit remote Arkhangelsk...

Gasline shortages have reached ruZZia’s Arkhangelsk, 1400km from Ukraine.

Also everyone staying silent about how there are massive lines at all the gas stations in Moscow again, even though there's supposedly gas available? pic.twitter.com/4HH6ZkK60p

— Claretta Nijhuis (@NijhuisClaretta) August 14, 2026

Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak had said at the end of July, "The situation is gradually stabilizing, a number of oil refineries became operational again. The balance is better now, and the situation at fuel filling stations has considerably improved, including when it comes to supplying agricultural producers," Interfax quoted him as saying.

But that assessment now appears to have been premature, also as Ukrainian long-range drone strikes continue pounding vital Russian energy sites.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 20:30

The San Francisco 49ers were previously named a logical fit for Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive star Vita Vea, who requested a trade after negotiations in contract talks stalled. It appears the 49ers are trying to turn their rumored interested in trading for Vea a reality. Vita Vea reportedly prefers a trade to the 49ers, Chargers,...

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The Nationals are shaking up their infield.

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Patriots Won't Let Communists Take America

Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker,

 Meet at the Liberty Tree...

This chapter in American history could be titled, “The Bad Guys Keep Winning Because They Suffer No Consequences for Their Treachery.”

Islamo-fascists and communists have taken over the Democrat Party and threaten to take over the U.S. Congress.  

Neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton has been brought to justice for conspiring with parts of the Intelligence Community to frame President Trump as a Russian spy.  The same Ukrainian and British Intelligence agents who helped orchestrate the first ridiculous impeachment against Trump (ostensibly set in motion because the president asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy why Joe Biden’s son was making tens of thousands of dollars each month as a board member of a Ukrainian energy company) continue trying to instigate an all-out war between the Russian Federation and the United States.  The mainstream media and globalist politicians want us all to forget that they used COVID as an excuse to roll out totalitarianism around the planet — justifying widespread censorship, lockdowns, mass surveillance, deadly chemical injections, and the abrogation of God-given rights in the name of “public health.”  Our scientific institutions refuse to say clearly that COVID was most likely engineered in a Chinese bio-lab with funding from U.S. taxpayers that Dr. Anthony Fauci had redirected to assist his friends and business associates overseas.  Nobody has been prosecuted for any of these crimes, just as nobody was prosecuted when President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder used the ATF to arm Mexican drug cartels, the IRS to target conservatives, and the USA PATRIOT Act to spy on political enemies (including all of the Republican presidential candidates for the 2016 election).

During the Obama and Biden administrations, Christians were prosecuted for being faithful servants of Christ.  Parents were put on domestic terror watchlists for objecting to radical infusions of “transgenderism,” pornography, and race-based discrimination in their children’s public school curricula.  The Democrat Party nationalized healthcare, used USAID budgets to subvert foreign elections, and redirected trillions of taxpayer dollars into “climate change” slush funds for domestic and foreign political allies.  The Obama-Biden regime defamed police officers as inherently racist and disparaged all white Americans as inherently “privileged.”  Decades of solid improvement in race relations in the United States were thrown out the window, as Democrats told their voters that white, heterosexual males deserve to be vilified and attacked.  For fifteen years, Antifa goons, BLM rioters, Islamic supremacists, and other violent left-wingers have burned down neighborhoods, destroyed churches, looted businesses, terrorized motorists, and harassed, threatened, and murdered ideological adversaries.  Instead of reporting on years of leftist domestic terrorism, corporate news talking heads still pretend that President Trump’s MAGA voters are the biggest threat to the United States.

It is easy to list the long train of abuses that have been committed against us and lose hope for the future.  Particularly because nobody has been held accountable for any of the serious crimes listed above, a lot of American patriots have begun to wonder whether our country can even be saved.  It can be saved.  But doing so will require Americans to get their minds right about the struggles ahead.

I often ask American patriots who express premature defeat whether they would give up so easily if this were 1776, rather than 2026.  My point is two-fold: First, we are most definitely living through a critical period of American history when, just as was true during the time of our Founding Fathers, the fate of our country rests in our hands.  Second, the odds that we shall succeed in saving America today are at least as high as they were two-hundred-fifty years ago.

Sometimes the people who are most proud of America’s past accomplishments are too quick to throw in the towel when it comes to America’s future.  But the origin story of the United States is epic because it was so unlikely.  The Boston Massacre was in 1770.  The Boston Tea Party occurred three years later.  By the time the Second Continental Congress declared Independence from Great Britain in ’76, American colonists were still sharply divided over the merits of war.  The Revolutionary War continued until ’83.  The Articles of Confederation, ratified in ’81, was superseded by ’89.  When the Founders drafted the U.S. Constitution, they effectively tabled the peculiar institution of slavery, knowing that the issue would collapse the Union.  During the 1790s, the heavily indebted United States endured severe economic troubles, and many members of Great Britain’s Parliament expected to reacquire their former colonies just as soon as interstate squabbles and economic calamity doomed the young nation.  When the British captured and burned much of Washington, D.C., in 1814, they nearly succeeded.

When Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty began meeting at the Green Dragon Tavern in 1765, do you think they knew it would take fifty more years to secure America’s Independence for posterity?  Do you think John Hancock, Paul Revere, or any of the Bostonians who met around the “Liberty Tree” would have cared?  Their preserved correspondence to other patriots throughout the colonies reveals two things above all else: (1) They knew that they were the underdogs, and (2) they relished the fight.  They leaned into their political and moral principles.  They defended their convictions.  They embraced righteous indignation.  “[W]ith a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence,” the signers of the Declaration of Independence “mutually pledge[d] to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

Those extraordinary men risked absolutely everything to go up against the greatest empire in the world.  Few outside of the American colonies believed they would prevail.  A healthy contingent of British elites predicted that the colonies-turned-states would fight among themselves and dissolve the Union within a short number of years.  Some Americans with Loyalist sympathies continued to expect a return of British rule until the conclusion of the War of 1812 seemed to finally put the matter to bed.

I do not expect today’s American patriots to become Nathan Hale, Patrick Henry, Caesar Rodney, or John Paul Jones.  I do not expect Americans to step into the shoes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, or Benjamin Franklin.  But I do expect Americans to respect their country’s past enough to remain confident, steady, and determined as we fight the battles to come.  Because, frankly, the threats we face today pale by comparison to the threats that our ancestors were able to overcome.  What one man can do, another can do.  What one generation can accomplish, so can the next.

We humans have this psychological “glitch” when it comes to being the “underdog.”  When we feel that the challenge before us is almost too great to be met, some of us become even more committed to prevailing.  Once we’ve won, however, we begin to take our victories for granted.  We start to assume that things were always meant to turn out the way they did.  Yet, strangely, the first sign of trouble weakens our resolve.  As soon as some other scrappy opponent starts banging down our door, we begin to worry that everything will be lost.  We forget that we used to be the ones banging down doors.

What I would like to remind my friends is that we American patriots have an advantage that this militant generation of communists and Islamo-fascists will never have: This is our country, and there are tens of millions of us who will never allow enemies of freedom to conquer it.  I don’t care how many “black-pill” pessimists scream, “The end is nigh.”  They are wrong.

Our enemies took over the universities.  They took over the Deep State.  They see total victory within their sights.  But they’ve never seen American patriots actually fight.

We are not sheep for the wolves to devour.  We are the hunters who scare the wolves away.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.

Tyler Durden Fri, 08/14/2026 - 20:05

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