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Another riptide took Shad Gaspard away and despite a big rescue operation being put in place, the former WWE Superstar’s body was found on Venice Beach a couple of days ago. Tributes have been pouring in for the true hero from all directions as Superstars remembered him. Vince McMahon paid his tribute to the late Superstar and sent his condolences to Gaspard’s family. WWE aired a tribute graphic before NXT kicked off yesterday and now Triple H has revealed that the company will be honoring him on SmackDown as well....

On Thursday morning, the National Hurricane Center announced on Twitter “A broad area of low pressure over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is likely to become a tropical or subtropical depression tonight or early Friday. A tropical storm warning will likely be required for parts of the northern Gulf Coast later this afternoon.” Following their announcement, they issued several advisories warning of a potential tropical cyclone 3. “The system is expected to produce heavy rainfall, considerable flash, urban and small stream flooding beginning today and continuing through the weekend along the Central Gulf Coast with flood impacts spreading northeastward into the Southern Appalachians,” the National Hurricane Center said in an update on Friday morning....

At 4:42 p.m. ET on Saturday, Tropical Storm Dorian had maximum sustained winds at 40 mph and was moving west at 12 mph. The Saturday afternoon update by NHC stated that Dorian’s center was approximately 725 miles east-southeast of Barbados. The forecast model by the NHC indicates Dorian could reach hurricane strength by Tuesday, and it is projected to pass just south of Puerto Rico sometime between Tuesday and Thursday....

Root took over as captain from Alastair Cook in 2017 and has overseen 10 wins from 21 matches, including an impressive series win over India in September. England’s next challenge comes against Sri Lanka, with the first Test beginning in Galle on Tuesday, and Trott is confident Root has “full control” over the squad. “I was fortunate enough to go and do a day’s training with them at Lord’s during the Test match, and just listening to the way he conducts himself and speaks around the group, he’s very impressive,” Root told Omnisport....

The target of the Iranian shelling, which began in mid-August, is a little-known Iranian-Kurdish rebel group known as the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK). About 2,000 PJAK guerillas, which Iran accuses of infiltrating across the border into the Islamic Republic, are camped out in the lime-green hills dotted with walnut trees along the Iraq-Iran border. In Rezga “there are a lot of peshmergas” armed with RPGs and Kalashnikovs, the farmer told me, using the colloquial term for Kurdish guerillas....

Pujols reached 2,998 career hits with a home run and a double, and Justin Upton hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning of the Angels’ 10-7 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night. Mike Trout and Pujols both homered in the first, and Upton drove in four runs while the Angels earned their second straight win following a 3-9 skid. Pujols followed Trout’s tape-measure shot with his 620th career homer off Dylan Bundy (1-4) into the bullpens beyond left field....

In a post upvoted over 10,000 times, RealJimCaviezel shared what they say is a picture they took recently along a sidewalk in the “capital area” of New York state. The image shows a pickup truck with its rear end jutting out over most of the sidewalk behind it, leaving little room for pedestrians. RealJimCaviezel told Newsweek he was walking to a nearby store when a couple with a stroller in front of him stopped abruptly....

During the news program Vremya (Time) on Channel One, anchor Vitaly Eliseev said rehearsals were under way for the Victory Day parade marking the end of World War II—known in Russia as the Great Patriotic War. He said on Monday night that the celebrations on May 9 will involve more than 11,000 troops and there will be eight MiG-29 planes which will fly in the formation of the last letter of the alphabet....

On his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump posted an illustrative picture of the date 9/11 portrayed in the American flag with the words “Never Forget.” In another Truth Social post, he wrote: “Twenty-one years ago, the World was changed forever. We will always remember the 2,977 lives lost and the many selfless heroes who emerged on that day. God bless all of those incredible souls, and God bless the USA!...

Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, made the comments on The Mike Lupica Podcast on Thursday while trying to sound the alarm about the current state of affairs. He said that in no time in history has a president so brazenly dismissed the other branches of U.S. government—by repeatedly ignoring subpoena requests required for oversight, for example—and that the House and Senate have more than enough evidence to impeach....

Cawthorn, a Republican, represented North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District between 2021 and 2023, and lost in the 2022 primaries to Representative Chuck Edwards, a former North Carolina state senator. In August, however, roughly five months before Edwards would be sworn into office, Cawthorn reportedly purchased a $1.1 million home in Cape Coral, Florida, according to a November report from the Asheville Citizen-Times. At the time, Cawthorn did not publicly confirm if he was moving....

Trump said the emergency use authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma will allow more patients to get quicker access for treatment. “It’s had an incredible rate of success,” the president said. “This is only made possible because of Operation Warp Speed.” The EUA of convalescent plasma is not an approved vaccine, but rather another way to treat patients and reduce the mortality rate. “This is a major advance in the treatment of patients,” said Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services Secretary....

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, ruled Wednesday that the CDC overstepped its authority by extending the moratorium. The temporary hold on evictions was originally included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which was passed by Congress in March 2020 and signed into law by Trump. The CDC, under President Joe Biden’s administration, sought to extend the moratorium to June 30....

Tom Tiffany, a Republican state senator whom Trump has repeatedly promoted on Twitter, won by a 57.2-42.8 percent margin on Tuesday evening, with 100 percent of precincts reporting, against challenger Wausau School Board president Tricia Zunker. Zunker is also a professor and a justice on the Supreme Court of the Ho-Chunk Nation. The seventh congressional district is deeply conservative. Trump won it by 20 percentage points over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Duffy sailed to re-election by an even greater margin in 2018, when disaffected voters nationwide ushered in a new wave of Democratic freshmen....

Speaking during a “tele-rally” on the eve of Tuesday’s GOP primary, the former praised Dixon, whom he endorsed for Michigan governor last Friday, as a candidate who will “fight, and strongly fight, for election integrity” in the state which he lost to Joe Biden in 2020. “Because what went on with the election in Michigan was outrageous,” Trump said, via The Detroit News. Trump’s remarks arrived after Dixon was questioned during a Fox News appearance on whether she supports the false claim that the 2020 election was rigged against the former president....

“We heard last week that the RNC was selling a commemorative Reagan/Trump coin,” Reagan Foundation chief marketing officer Melissa Giller told Newsweek in a Sunday email. “The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute owns the name, image, and likeness of President Reagan and they used his image for the coin without our consent. We called the RNC and asked them to cease and desist the use of President Reagan on the coin and they agreed....

Weisselberg was viewed as the pivotal legal piece leveraged by prosecutors to ultimately charge two entities of the Trump Organization with 17 counts of tax fraud, including conspiracy charges and falsifying business records. Weisselberg testified that he concealed payments the Trump Organization made on his luxury apartment, car and other personal expenses in an effort to reduce his own taxes. He was sentenced to five months in prison after pleading guilty to 15 charges in August....

The push for a Smithsonian American Latino Museum began with the Smithsonian’s own damning 1994 report, “Willful Neglect,” which said Latinos predate the British in the Americas and have contributed significantly to every aspect of American history and culture, yet had been excluded and ignored by the institution. The decades-long fight extends to Democrats and Republicans in Congress, with some champions of the effort, like Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, retiring, only for new elected officials to take her place and try to get the museum done....

Immigration and border security was a staple of Trump’s campaign and presidency, and President Joe Biden worked swiftly to dismantle the policies of his predecessor. With record-high numbers of children now in border custody, Biden has faced heavy criticism for his approach to immigration, and Republicans continue to venture to the southern border as a contrast to Biden’s lack of a trip. “I could see him doing that soon,” Jason Miller, a senior advisor to Trump, told Michael Berry on his podcast on Thursday, when discussing whether the former president could make a trip to the border....

The National Park Service described the new rule as an effort to reinstate federal alignment with the state’s hunting regulations, according to an NPS news release. The rule, which is expected to go into effect in late June, would reverse course on hunting restrictions introduced in 2015 by President Barack Obama’s administration. NPS spokesperson Peter Christian told the Anchorage Daily News that hunters would be allowed under the new rule to use artificial lighting to entice black bears out of their dens, employ bait to attract black and brown bears, hunt wolves and coyotes during their denning season, and catch caribou while they are swimming....