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Beltran, Yankees Roll Past A’s

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May 30, 2015

Oakland, CA – The A’s lost their lead and allowed Carlos Beltran to carry the Yankees on his back for the 5-3 win. The veteran outfielder hit a two-run homer in the sixth and drove in the insurance run in the eighth. Oakland tallied twelve hits against New York’s starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi but stranded eight in the loss.

“It’s great. At the end of the day it’s about wins,” said Beltran. “It feels good every time we’re capable of helping the team win a ballgame. Today was a good day for me, at the same time it was a good day for the ball club. We needed this one. Tomorrow we have a chance to leave this place with an even series.”

The A’s opened up their offense off Eovaldi in the first. Billy Burns led off with a single and Marcus Semien followed with a force out. Billy Butler grounded a single to right field putting two on with two outs. Josh Reddick singled on a line drive to left fielder Ramon Flores. Semien was waved home but was tagged out on Flores throw to catcher Brian McCann to end the inning stranding two.

Eovaldi wasn’t so lucky in the third, he gave up three back-to-back singles to load the bases with no outs. Burns got his second hit of the game to leadoff the inning with a single. Semien and Stephen Vogt followed with singles while Butler tied the game with a sacrifice fly. Reddick gave Oakland a 2-1 lead when he drove in Semien with a single up the middle and added on another run in the fourth.

“One extra base hit maybe breaks it open a little bit more,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said. “We were getting good at-bats, we were getting our share of hits, but just not to the point where we’re knocking runs in early.”

Eric Sogard led off the inning with a single and Semien who went 2-for-5 drove in Sogard with his third single of the night making it a 3-1 game. The Yankees quickly cut the lead to one in the fifth, Pierla singled on a ground ball deflected by second baseman Sogard. Brett Gardner reached base safely on a fielding error by Brett Lawrie. And Headley’s RBI single made it a 3-2 game.

The errors proved costly for the Oakland’s defense. By the sixth, the night belonged to Beltran. He helped New York turn things around. Beltran’s two-run blast off A’s starting pitcher Jesse Hahn put the Yankees back in the lead. Beltran drove in another run in the eighth extending New York’s lead 5-3.

Oakland had their season-high two home game winning streak snapped. Hahn allowed fur runs through six frames, though one was unearned. He retired the first batter he faced but put two on in the first. Both Headley and Alex Rodriguez hit back-to-back singles making Hahn work early with eighteen pitches before striking out Mark Teixeira.

The “hot” Brain McCann continued his hitting streak with his thirty-third RBI scoring in Headley making it a 1-0 game. McCann extended his hitting streak to eight games. This is the first time that a Yankees catcher has eight consecutive games with a RBI since Yogi Berra in 1956. Hahn struck out Carlos Beltran to end the threat. He’d settled in through the next three innings until the fifth.

“I thought I was on a roll there,” said Hahn. That one pitch kind f ruined the night for me. Tried to go sinker, down and away there, and flattened on me. I got under it, hung it, and it was a good pitch for him to drive.”

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Poll Shows Support for Policies That Help Families Afford Child Care

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

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By First Five Years Fund

New national polling shows persistent voter concern about the affordability and availability of child care for working parents, alongside broad support across key demographic groups for federal child care policies that help families afford care.

The national survey was conducted by UpOne Insight on behalf of the First Five Years Fund from January 13–18, 2026.

Key findings include:

• Parents need help: 80% of voters say the ability of working parents to find and afford child care is either in a state of crisis or a major problem.

• This is an affordability issue: 82% believe federal child care funding will help lower costs for working families — including 69% of Republicans, 84% of Independents, and 94% of Democrats.

• And there continues to be strong support (62%) for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), a federal program that makes it possible for hundreds of thousands of families to afford safe, quality care for their children while parents work or go to school, including a majority of Republicans, 63% of Independents and 72% of Democrats.

• Support for funding child care programs remains strong: 75% believe child care funding should be increased or kept at current levels — including 75% of Republicans, 85% of Independents, and 97% of Democrats.

• 74% say funding for child care is an important and good use of tax dollars, including a majority of Republicans, three-quarters of Independents, and nine in ten Democrats.

FFYF Executive Director Sarah Rittling said, “Voters across the country are sending a clear message: federal child care and early learning programs work. These investments help parents stay in the workforce, strengthen families, and support healthy child development. They have also long had strong bipartisan support in Congress. At a time when affordability is top of mind for families, continued federal funding is essential to ensure child care remains accessible and within reach.”

First Five Years Fund works to protect, prioritize, and build bipartisan support for quality child care and early learning programs at the federal level. Reliable, affordable, and high-quality early learning and child care can be transformative, not only enhancing a child’s prospects for a brighter future but also bolstering working parents and fostering economic stability nationwide.

We work with Congress and the Administration to identify federal solutions that work for families with young children, as well as states and communities. We work with policymakers to identify ways to increase access to affordable, high-quality child care and early learning programs for children. And we collaborate with advocacy groups to help align best practices with the best possible policies. http://www.ffyf.org

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Trump’s MAGA Allies are Creating Executive Order Plan to Steal the 2026 Midterms

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

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By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Correspondent

A group of MAGA pro-Trump activists, who say they are working in coordination with the White House, are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that would claim without evidence that China interfered with the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential to President Joe Biden by over 7 million votes. Since Trump lost to Biden in 2020, he has repeatedly claimed that the election was “stolen” without evidence. The report of a group of “Trump allies” preparing an executive order to give Trump power over elections was first reported by The Washington Post.

The lies around the right-wing campaign that pushed falsehoods that the 2020 election was stolen was trafficked through right-wing media, particularly Fox News. Fox News was then sued for defamation for the claims by Dominion Voting Systems. Fox lost the case and had to settle for the largest defamation amount on record of $787.5 million in April 2023.

The document that could lead to an executive order proposes using the claim that China interfered with the 2020 elections as grounds to “declare a national emergency.” The move would be an unprecedented step that would grant Trump new authority over the voting systems in the U.S.

The story in The Washington Post arrives as Trump increasingly signals that he may take actions that would alter the result of the 2026 midterms. The Republicans are widely expected to lose as their approval ratings plummet as a result of a failing economy under Trump. Over 50 members of Congress have announced they will retire this year and not return in 2027.

The Trump Department of Justice, which now has a large image of Trump on the side of it, “sued five new states Thursday [Feb. 26, 2026] demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts and faces resistance from Republican-led states as well,” according to Democracy Docket, a group that works to protect voting rights.

Trump claimed back in late 2020, the last year of his first term, that he had the authority to issue an executive order related to mail-in voting for the 2020 elections — which he would then lose. But the Constitution states that control of elections lies with the states. As the GOP works to place hurdles in front of voting, Democrats worked to make voting easier.

In March 2021, President Biden signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to expand voting access as part of the Biden Administration’s effort “to promote and defend the right to vote for all Americans who are legally entitled to participate in elections.”

Trump’s focus is clearly on altering the November 2026 midterm elections. Trump’s polling numbers and the elections and special elections that have taken place around the U.S. over the last year clearly indicate that Republicans are about to be hit by a blue wave of Democratic victories.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent investigative journalist and the founder of Black Virginia News. She is a political analyst who appears on #RolandMartinUnfiltered and hosts the show LAUREN LIVE on YouTube @LaurenVictoriaBurke. She can be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke