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Still, the fact the team is even entertaining a meeting with this year’s top free agent suggests the Dodgers, for all the spending they did last offseason, aren’t tightening their purse strings yet.

That tide has turned under President Xi Jinping, whose government is tightening controls on Pride events, restricting queer representation on TV and pressuring internet sites and platforms to scrub LGBTQ-friendly content.

Things were tightening up in Wisconsin, as they inevitably do, and everybody shows up.

It also results from the drastic tightening since Oct.

"All that said to us was that we're tightening the protection of officers because there could never be another officer that gets this far, going to trial," she said.