Best 2026 World Series matchups for every type of MLB fan - ESPN

With just four teams remaining in the MLB postseason, the stage is set for the championship series. That leaves us with four potential matchups in this year’s World Series. In the National League, we’ll be treated to a clash between the two teams with the best records in baseball in the Brewers and Dodgers, while in the American League, it’ll be the top-seeded Rays taking on the Guardians. We’re going to rank the four potential matchups based on how likely they are to provide the most excitement, taking into account regular-season success and historical context.4. Brewers vs. GuardiansFans of the long ball might not be too keen to see the Guardians and Brewers clash in the World Series. During the regular season, Cleveland ranked 27th in MLB with 162 home runs, and the Brewers were one of the three teams to hit even fewer (154, tied for 28th). The Guardians were not a good offensive team, but the same can’t be said for Milwaukee, even if they weren’t leaving the yard regularly. The Brewers ranked inside the top five in MLB in doubles, runs scored, hits, walks, batting average and on-base percentage.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.

Omar’s legal team says the search violated safeguards designed to protect constitutional rights of members of Congress. Lawyers for Democratic United States Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota have demanded the return of property seized in a federal raid of her Washington, DC home, accusing the US Department of Justice of conducting a politically motivated investigation and failing to follow judicial instructions during the search. “The political motivations behind this pre-election investigation and search are clear as day,” Omar’s lawyers wrote in a letter sent to federal prosecutors on Friday and obtained by The Associated Press news agency.