"Terrifier" prima David Howard Thornton sewage comedian connected 1 knee and popped the mobility to fiancée Jada Christine — while he was successful afloat Art the Clown costume and makeup.

The 2 were attending the Huntsville Comic & Pop Culture Expo complete the play successful Alabama erstwhile Thornton, wearing his now iconic outfit from the deed scary movie franchise, is seen successful video posted connected Saturday crouching down.

Christine puts her manus to her rima successful daze and excitement. As Thornton pops the large mobility from down the black-and-white disguise covering his full face, he asks, “Will you wed me?”

Christine responds, “Yes, yes, yes, I will!” She past gets down to his level and kisses him connected his achromatic rictus grin arsenic the mates hug and smile.

Thornton and Christine person been making love for 9 months.

Christine posted connected her Instagram communicative connected Sunday, “I dont usually station snarky things, but this made maine laugh. I came from a narration wherever I had to request to beryllium treated correct to being worshipped for illustration a goddess by David,” she continued successful the adjacent communicative post.

“I met David erstwhile I was still pinch the personification who did not dainty maine right. But David was not the logic the narration ended. My dada passed away, and I realized really short life really is and really severely I needed change. We officially started making love successful July, and my life has changed for the amended successful truthful galore ways. Thank you for each of the congratulations and good wishes you person sent.”

On Thornton’s Instagram page, successful summation to the connection post, location are aggregate photos of Thornton and Christine together, including a image of Christine pinch the chihuahua they share, a photograph captioned “stranded successful an airport,” and a video of the brace doing the “Warheads challenge.”

Apple Inc. named hardware main John Ternus arsenic the iPhone maker’s adjacent leader, pinch Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook shifting to the domiciled of executive chairman.

Ternus will go CEO connected Sept. 1, the institution said successful a connection Monday. The Apple seasoned was caput of hardware engineering since 2021 and has spent 25 years focused connected merchandise improvement astatine the iPhone maker.

Ternus’ purview complete hardware will beryllium assumed by longtime spot main Johny Srouji, who is being named main hardware serviceman and will oversee hardware engineering and silicon development.

“John Ternus has the mind of an engineer, the psyche of an innovator, and the bosom to lead pinch integrity and pinch honor,” Cook said successful a statement. “He is simply a visionary whose contributions to Apple complete 25 years are already excessively galore to count, and he is without mobility the correct personification to lead Apple into the future.”

In the caller executive president role, Apple said that Cook would beryllium engaging pinch policymakers about the world. The 65-year-old CEO already oversees Apple’s narration pinch President Trump.

Gurman writes for Bloomberg.

A warrant has besides been issued for the apprehension of different 22-year-old man.

Word of the caller charges follows the apprehension earlier this period of different 21-year-old man successful narration to the extortions.

“On Sunday, February 22nd, constabulary were called for reports of a shooting extracurricular of a residence successful Saddle Ridge. It is believed that 2 suspects fired aggregate rounds into the residence from a conveyance earlier fleeing the segment anterior to constabulary arrival,” said Acting Deputy Chief Jeff Bell of the Calgary Police Service.

“On Wednesday, March 4th, the aforesaid residence was erstwhile again targeted. Shots were fired toward the residence by 3 suspects wrong a vehicle. After identifying a imaginable fishy conveyance during a postulation stop, our investigators established links betwixt suspects, vehicles and a bid of extortion-related shootings,” said Bell.

Nobody was injured successful the shootings, but the wave and grade of the unit sparked a awesome woody of fearfulness successful the community.

Since January 2025, constabulary said location were 41 extortion attempts successful Calgary, including 18 shootings.

However, constabulary declare the caller arrests look to beryllium having an impact.

“It’s been almost a period since we’ve had a awesome incident that had immoderate shape of violence,” said Bell.  “I judge wide some our suppression and investigative efforts are having an effect, but it doesn’t mean we are going to fto our ft disconnected the gas.”

All 3 of the accused look a complaint of discharging a firearm pinch intent.

Police are still looking for 22-year-old Germanjeet Singh, who is described arsenic 5 feet 8 inches gangly pinch brownish eyes and achromatic hair.

Anyone who whitethorn person accusation connected his whereabouts is being asked to telephone Crime Stoppers.

Similar extortions person besides been reported successful respective different Canadian cities, including Edmonton and Vancouver.

“It is an interprovincial problem — and we do spot that offenders from 1 metropolis committing the crimes aliases the extortions successful different city,” said Acting Insp. Scott Henning of the Edmonton Police Service.

Investigators person besides been moving pinch Canada Border Services and, successful immoderate cases, the accused person been deported from Canada.

“So far, our information arsenic of March 12 of this year, the CBSA has opened 372 migration investigations related to extortion matters. Of that, location person been 70 removal orders that person been issued for various grounds of inadmissibility, and to date, 35 removals person already taken place,” said Karen Wilmont, adjunct head pinch the Canada Border Services Agency.

“Specifically wrong the Prairie region, I could corroborate that 18 removal orders person been issued, arsenic good arsenic six individuals person been removed from Canada. With respect to the individuals who’ve conscionable been charged, I could corroborate that those cases will beryllium referred to CBSA. We will unfastened an investigation into their migration position and look if location are grounds for inadmissibility, and if so, study and region those individuals from the state arsenic well,” Wilmont added.

His agency didn’t instantly respond to a connection from Beritaja.

McCasland, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office, had donned hiking boots and appeared to person taken his wallet and a .38 caliber revolver pinch a leather holster earlier he took off. He near down his telephone and glasses.

It wasn’t agelong earlier investigators began proceeding speculation that McCasland’s disappearance mightiness person someway been tied to his erstwhile job.

McCasland’s wife, Susan McCasland Wilkerson, addressed that speculation straight successful a Facebook post.

“He retired from the [Air Force] almost 13 years agone and has had only very commonly held clearances since,” she wrote. “It seems rather improbable that he was taken to extract very dated secrets from him.”

Wilkerson, and the sheriff’s department, besides batted-down speculation fanned by conspiracy theorists that McCasland’s disappearance had thing to do pinch UFOs.

McCasland had erstwhile volunteered to activity pinch “To The Stars,” an outfit led by “Blink-182” frontman Tom DeLonge that has published books and released euphony and a docuseries related to aliens and unidentified flying objects.

Wilkerson said McCasland has nary typical UFO knowledge. “This relationship is not a logic for personification to abduct Neil,” she wrote.

Another lawsuit that fueled speculation was the disappearance of Monica Reza, a 60-year-old erstwhile NASA intelligence and rocket materials master who was reported missing June 22, 2025, while hiking successful the Angeles National Forest. That missing person’s lawsuit is being investigated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and remains unsolved.

Reza worked pinch McCasland but much than a decade ago.

The aforesaid agency besides investigated the decease of renowned Caltech intelligence Carl Johann Grillmair, who was fatally changeable connected Feb. 16. A fishy has been arrested who had a anterior apprehension for alleged intentional discharge of a firearm but nary motive has been released, which only added tinder to the theories. The 29-year-old fishy is being held pending an arraignment that was postponed until the extremity of April.

The oldest of the cases that has churned-up questions appears to beryllium that of Alabama-based anti-gravity interrogator Amy Catherine Eskridge, whose decease astatine property 34 successful 2022 was ruled a suicide.

Online theorists besides tried to nexus a lawsuit that appears to person already been solved, the sidesplitting of 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Nuno Loureiro.

Loureiro was gunned down successful December by suspected Brown University wide shooter Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, constabulary person said, who 2 days later opened occurrence astatine Brown University. Neves Valente died by suicide.

The Department of Justice has not divulged a motive for why Neves Valente targeted Brown University, wherever he had been a postgraduate student, aliases Loureiro. Both Loureiro and Neves Valente were from Portugal.

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MEXICO CITY — A man changeable a ‌Canadian female dormant and injured respective others ​before sidesplitting himself ​on Monday astatine Mexico’s Teotihuacán ⁠pyramids, a celebrated tourer ​and archaeological tract ​outside of Mexico City, according to authorities.

Mexico’s information furniture ​said the injured ​people were receiving aesculapian care. ‌Canada’s ⁠foreign ministry did not instantly reply to a petition for comment.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said authorities were successful interaction pinch the Canadian Embassy.

"What happened coming successful Teotihuacán profoundly pains us," she said successful a station connected X. "I definitive my about sincere solidarity pinch the affected individuals and their families."

Six group were injured, the information furniture said, including 4 who were changeable and 2 who sustained injuries from falls.

American tourer Tim Chung, who is visiting Mexico from Seattle, was astatine the Teotihuacán ⁠pyramids pinch a circuit group erstwhile the incident occurred.

“All of a abrupt I spot a feline autumn disconnected 1 of the viewing platforms and past I heard a changeable and different personification autumn disconnected and past I knew thing bad was happening and heard screams,” Chung told Beritaja successful a telephone interview.

He said everyone successful his circuit group is safe but described the arena arsenic “unbelievably sad.”

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it is successful interaction pinch “other embassies of affected individuals to supply timely follow-up connected these events.”

Mexico's Secretariat of Security said it will support a beingness successful the area successful coordination pinch the applicable authorities while it investigates the incident.

The ​pre-Hispanic ​city ⁠was 1 of the about important ​cultural centers successful ​Mesoamerica.

American farmers dream the Iran ceasefire holds and fertilizer and diesel commencement moving done the Strait of Hormuz soon, arsenic statement harvest farmers spell into their 4th consecutive planting play successful the red.

Apple announced connected Monday that Tim Cook, who has served arsenic Apple’s CEO since 2011, will measurement down. Cook was the nonstop successor arsenic Apple CEO aft Steve Jobs, who resigned owed to wellness issues.

Cook will stay successful his domiciled until September 1 of this year, erstwhile Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus will return complete arsenic CEO. Cook will past modulation to a caller domiciled arsenic Apple Executive Chairman.

“John Ternus has the mind of an engineer, the psyche of an innovator, and the bosom to lead pinch integrity and pinch honor,” Cook said successful a statement. “He is simply a visionary whose contributions to Apple complete 25 years are already excessively galore to count, and he is without mobility the correct personification to lead Apple into the future. I could not beryllium much assured successful his abilities and his character, and I look guardant to moving intimately pinch him connected this modulation and successful my caller domiciled arsenic executive chairman.”

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Apple connected Monday named John Ternus arsenic its caller CEO, effective Sept. 1, and said that Tim Cook would return the domiciled of executive chairman.

The modulation would extremity Cook's 15-year tally arsenic 1 of the about successful exertion CEOs.

“It has been the top privilege of my life to beryllium the CEO of Apple and to person been trusted to lead specified an bonzer company," Cook said successful a news release.

"I emotion Apple pinch each of my being, and I americium truthful grateful to person had the opportunity to activity pinch a squad of specified ingenious, innovative, creative, and profoundly caring group who person been unwavering successful their dedication to enriching the lives of our customers and creating the champion products and services successful the world,” Cook said.

The young Yemeni migrant manning the rate registry astatine a Sunoco state position successful Detroit struggles astatine clip pinch his English, but constabulary opportunity he instantly understood erstwhile the 16-year-old woman seeking to bargain cigarettes silently mouthed the connection “help.”

Now Abdulrahman Abohatem is being hailed arsenic a leader for redeeming that teen from a suspected rapist who allegedly abducted her astatine gunpoint past week. And the section Yemeni-American business organization is showing its appreciation by raising money to thief him defray the costs of his upcoming wedding.

“We are each very proud of him,” Mohammed Alsanai, main of the Frontier International Academy successful Hamtramck, which is wherever the teen attends school, told Beritaja connected Monday.

Alsanai said the schoolhouse precocious hosted a ceremonial wherever Abohatem was awarded a “Knight Medal” for his quick-thinking response.

Abohatem told section reporters being capable to thief a teen successful threat was reward enough.

“I consciousness bully erstwhile you prevention somebody,” he told the ABC News connection WXYZ-TV. “Sixteen years aged — she is simply a child.”

Donald James Joseph Arthur Fields, 48, is arrested successful Hamtramck, Mich., connected April 13, 2026.Hamtramck Police Department

The suspect, 48-year-old Donald James Joseph Arthur Fields of Hamtramck, has been charged pinch 2 counts of criminal intersexual behaviour first degree, kidnapping, 1 count of felonious assault, 3 counts of felony firearm and 1 count of felon successful possession of a firearm, according to the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

Fields is being held without enslaved successful the Wayne County Jail, Chief Hussein Farhat of the Hamtramck Police Department said aft Fields was arrested connected April 13, the time of the incident.

The fishy is “a criminal who had a history of rape charges, and we will make judge he gets what he deserves,” Hamtramck Mayor Adam Alharbi said aft Fields was arrested.

The 16-year-old was waiting for a autobus to schoolhouse erstwhile Fields forced her astatine gunpoint into his van and drove away, constabulary said. But this did not spell unnoticed. Another female student who saw what happened instantly called 911.

While constabulary were responding to the reported kidnapping, Fields allegedly assaulted the teen successful his van and past drove pinch her to the state position crossed the metropolis statement successful Detroit.

Meanwhile, officers arriving astatine the schoolhouse encountered respective students who were already utilizing their cellphones to way the missing woman done a societal media app, constabulary said and Alsanai confirmed.

“The full room froze erstwhile we realized we knew wherever she was,” the main said.

Armed pinch that info, constabulary headed for the Sunoco arsenic well.

By then, Fields and the teen were already wrong the state station’s convenience store.

When the fishy told the 16-year-old woman to salary for the cigarettes, Abohatem told WXYZ-TV he was instantly suspicious.

“I extremity and spell there’s thing wrong,” he said. “And she mouthed talked to me, for illustration pinch nary sound, ‘help.'”

Abohatem said he stepped retired from down the store’s protective solid and stepped successful betwixt Fields and the teenager.

“I spell out, I footwear him out,” Abohatem said of the suspect. “I inquire the girl, ‘Go down me.'”

Fields quickly fled and was heading backmost to his van pinch Abohatem basking connected his heels erstwhile the Hamtramck constabulary arrived and took the fishy into custody.

“I spot the constabulary outside. I constituent to him. I go, ‘That’s the guy,'” Abohatem said.

Police quickly handcuffed Fields and past confiscated his van and a handgun.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the teen was the unfortunate of a seemingly random onslaught and praised her for keeping her cool moreover aft she was assaulted.

“Our young subsister successful this lawsuit was simply stepping successful wide daylight erstwhile she was viciously attacked and sexually assaulted,” Worthy said successful a statement. “Despite what she had conscionable gone through, her speedy reasoning and intelligence toughness saved her life. We cannot reverse what happened to her, but we could activity difficult to bring justness to her. “

BERITAJA's Scott Detrow talks pinch Scott Roxborough of The Hollywood Reporter about the meaning of Saudi Arabia's finance successful the imaginable Paramount Skydance/Warner Brothers Discovery merger.

Moncton-Dieppe member, Francisc Giboi, projected the thought astatine a policy normal earlier this month and it was passed arsenic a non-binding resolution.

Such resolutions group retired statement argumentation but are not binding connected the governing party.

“This connection is about making a much connected Maritime region and really introducing a basal work that group without a conveyance could use,” said Giboi.

His scheme projected starting a location obstruction work betwixt Saint John and Halifax, which would yet grow to Sydney, N.S., Fredericton and Prince Edward Island.

Giboi was inspired by his upbringing successful Romania, wherever he and his family would return the train crossed the country.

When they moved to Canada, he said that each changed.

“My family mislaid that. We had to return a car. Being a caller migrant family, we didn’t really person the intends to bargain aggregate cars, truthful it made everything very difficult for us,” he said.

Lori Turnbull, a governmental expert and Dalhousie University professor, said though the ballot is not binding connected the Liberal government, the solution is absorbing — particularly successful the Maritimes, wherever location are smaller populations.

“That’s perchance [a] game-changing speech for the economical maturation and early of the region,” said Turnbull.

But she added it will return much than governmental statement to get the task connected the tracks.

“Political will unsocial is not going to beryllium enough, moreover if it was there. It’s going to require a business from a backstage investor aliases a group of investors,” she said.

A spokesperson from Nova Scotia’s Public Works Department said the provincial authorities is encouraged to spot the liking and would beryllium unfastened to exploring opportunities to coordinate and collaborate.

When asked about the idea, New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt, who is presently successful Ottawa successful meetings pinch Prime Minister Mark Carney, said she’d “love to study much about that.”

Meanwhile, Giboi said he said to the national carrier minister, who raised concerns about who would really run the railway corridor.

Giboi said he believes a Crown corp should beryllium astatine the helm.

“Just because we don’t person it now doesn’t mean we aren’t missing a basal service,” he said.

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer acknowledged Monday that he made the incorrect judgement erstwhile he picked Jeffrey Epstein 's friend Peter Mandelson arsenic U.K. ambassador to Washington, batting distant a barrage of calls to resign over a ungraded that has near his activity teetering.

Starmer said he would person withdrawn the assignment if he'd known Mandelson had grounded information checks, arsenic he tried to explicate why Mandelson was fixed the U.K.'s about important negotiated post. Starmer placed blasted squarely connected Foreign Office officials who he said grounded to show him about the information concerns and approved Mandelson's assignment contempt them.

Starmer told lawmakers successful the House of Commons that "I would not person gone up pinch the appointment" had he known the truth. He called it "frankly staggering" that officials didn't show him about the grounded vetting.

"At the bosom of this, location is besides a judgement I made that was wrong," Starmer added. "I should not person appointed Peter Mandelson.

Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein successful an undated image from his 50th day book. via House Oversight Committee

"I return work for that decision, and I apologize again to the victims of the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who were intelligibly grounded by my decision."

Starmer fired Mandelson successful September, 9 months into the job, erstwhile caller details emerged about his relationship pinch Epstein, a convicted activity offender who died successful situation successful 2019.

His mentation was greeted pinch jeers from guidance lawmakers, incredulous that the nation's leader hadn't known about the grounded information vetting.

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said Starmer's deficiency of curiosity was difficult to believe.

"It doesn't look that he asked immoderate questions astatine all. Why? Because he didn't want to know," she said.

Starmer was attempting to group the grounds consecutive aft many times telling lawmakers that "due process" was followed erstwhile Mandelson was appointed.

Though he apologized for his correction of judgment, he denied misleading Parliament, which is usually considered a resigning offense.

Starmer fired the apical Foreign Office civilian servant, Olly Robbins, wrong hours of the revelation by The Guardian past week. But friends of Robbins opportunity he ne'er would person been capable to stock delicate vetting accusation pinch the premier minister.

Robbins is expected to springiness his ain type of events to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee connected Tuesday.

Badenoch noted that Robbins is the latest high-profile authorities departure linked to Mandelson. She said that alternatively of taking work for his mistakes, Starmer "has thrown his unit and his officials nether the bus."

Ed Davey, leader of the centrist Liberal Democrats, said Starmer "gives each belief of a premier curate successful agency but not successful power." Davey said appointing Mandelson was "a catastrophic correction of judgment. And now that it's blown up successful his face, the only decent point to do is to return responsibility."

Senior authorities colleagues person defended the premier minister. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy said that if Starmer had known about the grounded information vetting, "he would never, ever person appointed him ambassador."

But lawmakers successful Starmer's center-left Labour Party, already anxious about its dire canvass ratings, are restive. Starmer already defused 1 imaginable situation successful February, erstwhile immoderate Labour lawmakers urged him to resign complete the Mandelson appointment.

He could look a caller situation if, arsenic expected, Labour takes a hammering successful section and location elections connected May 7, which springiness voters a chance to walk a midterm verdict connected the government.

Critics opportunity the Mandelson assignment is much grounds of bad judgement by a premier curate who has made repeated missteps since he led Labour to a landslide predetermination triumph successful July 2024.

Starmer has struggled to present promised economical growth, repair tattered nationalist services and easiness the costs of living, and has been forced into repeated argumentation U-turns.

President Trump and then-British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson successful May 2025.Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images file

He picked Mandelson arsenic ambassador contempt being warned by his unit that Mandelson's relationship pinch Epstein exposed the authorities to "reputational risk."

Mandelson's business links to Russia and China besides group disconnected siren bells. But his expertise arsenic a erstwhile European Union waste and acquisition main and contacts among world elites were considered assets successful dealing pinch U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.

A trove of Epstein-related documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice successful January included emails suggesting Mandelson had passed connected sensitive, and perchance market-moving, authorities accusation to Epstein successful 2009, aft the world financial crisis.

British constabulary launched a criminal probe and arrested Mandelson successful February on suspicion of misconduct successful nationalist office. Mandelson has antecedently denied wrongdoing and hasn't been charged. He does not look allegations of intersexual misconduct.

Starmer said he had ordered a reappraisal into immoderate information concerns arising from Mandelson's entree to delicate accusation while ambassador.

Many questions stay unanswered aft Starmer's 2 1/2-hour question-and-answer session, including why Mandelson grounded the vetting and whether officials felt governmental unit to o.k. the appointment.

Several lawmakers asked why Starmer chose Mandelson for the occupation contempt reddish flags.

"I'm willing successful his judgment," said Scottish National Party lawmaker Stephen Flynn. "Does he judge himself to beryllium gullible, incompetent aliases both?

Carlson suggested that Trump could beryllium the “antichrist,” pointing to a bid of arguable AI-generated images that depicted the president alongside Jesus. Speaking connected an section of “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Carlson accused Trump of “mocking” Christianity done those posts.

Reading from the explanation of “the man of lawlessness” successful 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 and the prophecy of a boastful king successful Daniel 11:36, Carlson said Trump appeared to show traits associated pinch the Antichrist, though he added it remains “unclear” if that explanation applies.

The accusation carries superior weight wrong the Christian contented and Carlson delivered it connected a awesome level without softening his language.

Carlson said he believed Trump fresh the scriptural explanation of a fig who would “oppose and exalt himself complete everything that is worshipped.” “It’s Donald Trump, president of the United States, dressed arsenic Jesus, treatment a man. You could spot the treatment powerfulness coming disconnected of his correct hand,” Carlson said connected the show.

“It’s mockery. He’s mocking Jesus. He’s making nosy of Christianity. The cardinal fig of the belief is being held up for mockery,” he said. “It’s an onslaught not conscionable connected a circumstantial group of facts, it’s an onslaught connected the thought that location are facts. It’s an onslaught connected truth openly. No one’s hiding this.”

Carlson past posed his cardinal mobility straight to his audience, “Here’s a leader who’s mocking the gods of his ancestors, mocking the God of gods and exalting himself supra them. Could this beryllium the Antichrist? Well, who knows? At slightest that’s my conclusion: Who knows?”

Trump’s mentation and retreat

Trump tried to locomotion backmost the image aft receiving wide disapproval — overmuch of which came from his ain base. His rotation was that he thought it was an image of himself dressed arsenic a Red Cross worker, not the Messiah. “I did station it and I thought it was maine arsenic a expert and had to do pinch Red Cross. There’s a Red Cross worker, which we support and only the clone news could travel up pinch that one,” Trump said. “I conscionable heard about it and I said, ‘How did they travel up pinch that?’ It’s expected to beryllium maine arsenic a expert making group amended and I do make group better. I make group a batch better.”

Trump, whom Carlson described arsenic a “famously irreligious man,” deleted the station from the net aft the outcry, though he acknowledged having sent it.

Trump fires backmost astatine Carlson and different critics

Trump responded to Carlson and different critics connected Truth Social, saying Carlson was ne'er genuinely aligned pinch his movement.

“I cognize why Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Alex Jones person each been fighting maine for years, particularly by the truth that they deliberation it is awesome for Iran, the Number One State Sponsor of Terror, to person a Nuclear Weapon — Because they person 1 point successful common, Low IQs,” Trump wrote. 

“They’re stupid people, they cognize it, their families cognize it and everyone other knows it, too! They’ve each been thrown disconnected Television, mislaid their Shows and aren’t moreover invited connected TV because cipher cares about them, they’re NUT JOBS, TROUBLEMAKERS.”

Carlson’s trajectory

Carlson’s remarks travel arsenic his stance toward Trump continues to shift. Once 1 of Fox News’s about salient figures earlier his exit successful 2023, Carlson has precocious been captious of Trump’s position connected Iran.

Along pinch different right-wing media personalities for illustration Megyn Kelly and Alex Jones, Carlson has pushed backmost connected Trump’s rhetoric about overseas policy, creating region betwixt him and the president.

Trump has many times claimed that God “spared him” aft 2 assassination attempts successful 2024. During his first word successful 2019, he described himself arsenic “the chosen one” while discussing waste and acquisition tensions pinch China, later saying he was being sarcastic.

After Trump survived an assassination effort successful July 2024, immoderate evangelical supporters described the infinitesimal arsenic grounds of divine protection. Over time, immoderate supporters person compared Trump to biblical figures for illustration King David, portraying him arsenic a flawed leader chosen by God.

“I americium astatine a spot of a loss, and I deliberation each British Colombians are, is that we person a premier that has mislaid control,” BC Conservative interim leader Trevor Halford told BERITAJA connected Monday.

“And I really can’t moreover show you who’s starring this state correct now because intelligibly it’s not him. So for us, you know, we’ll beryllium fresh to statement immoderate authorities that comes forward. But you cognize the problem is he’s going into 1 room saying 1 thing, going into different and saying another.”

Halford asked if Attorney General Niki Sharma is prepared to measurement successful astatine this point.

“We’ve sewage a premier who said that there’s 20 cases earlier the courts correct now, that decisions could travel astatine immoderate time, utmost ineligible liabilities, and yet he is he’s moving for screen correct now,” Halford said.

On Sunday, the premier’s agency said successful a little statement that it “can corroborate that the authorities will not beryllium introducing authorities connected DRIPA during this session.”

Eby will clasp a property convention astatine 1:30 p.m. PT.

Initially, authorities to suspend parts of the DRIPA was group to beryllium tabled this week.

It follows an unfastened missive sent to B.C. MLAs by the First Nations Leadership Council, the First Nations Summit, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and the BC Assembly of First Nations, laying retired pushback had the measure beryllium introduced.

“Any effort to interfere pinch the courts’ role, and First Nations’ entree to justice, will beryllium met pinch corporate guidance from First Nations and friends crossed the province,” the missive reads.

DRIPA has been astatine the bosom of respective B.C. tribunal rulings connected mineral and onshore authorities and Eby has antecedently said that those decisions person put the state astatine consequence of litigation.

In a statement, the BC Green Party said it presented Sharma past week pinch a “constructive way guardant connected its advancement” erstwhile it comes to DRIPA.

“The Government has spent months avoiding and delaying bully religion negotiations pinch First Nations. We dream that they person now realized that the only way guardant is progressive reconciliation, arsenic defined successful legislation,” BC Green House Leader Rob Botterell, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands said successful a statement.

“The problem isn’t DRIPA. The problem is the government’s nonaccomplishment to instrumentality DRIPA. We provided a constructive scheme to resoluteness tension, summation certainty, and beforehand DRIPA to the government.”

BC Green Leader Emily Lowan said Eby should beryllium taken disconnected the reconciliation file.

“Premier Eby bears afloat work for the societal and economical disruption of attempting to weaken the authorities of Indigenous people,” Lowan stated successful the release.

“The spineless waffling week by week is not leadership. It has undermined spot successful authorities and weakened the instauration reconciliation requires. The Premier has fomented misinformation and allowed dislike to spread. The authorities has a agelong roadworthy to repair that.”

This communicative will beryllium updated erstwhile Eby speaks about the issue.

In an emailed connection to BERITAJA, Amazon confirmed that “customers utilizing Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released successful 2012 and earlier will nary longer beryllium capable to purchase, borrow, aliases download caller contented via the Kindle Store.”

“These models have been supported for astatine slightest 14 years — immoderate arsenic agelong arsenic 18 years — but exertion has travel a agelong measurement successful that time, and these devices will nary longer beryllium supported moving forward,” an Amazon spokesperson wrote.

The impacted devices are listed as:

• Kindle: Kindle 1st Generation (2007), Kindle 2nd Generation (2009), Kindle DX and DX Graphite (2009 and 2010), Kindle Keyboard (2010), Kindle 4 (2011), Kindle Touch (2011), Kindle 5 (2012), and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation (2012).

• Kindle Fire Tablets: Kindle Fire 1st Gen (2011), Kindle Fire 2nd Gen (2012), Kindle Fire HD 7 (2012), Kindle Fire HD 8.9 (2012).

Amazon said that the institution is “notifying those still actively utilizing them and offering promotions to thief pinch the modulation to newer devices,” besides adding that “their accounts and Kindle Library besides stay afloat accessible done the free Kindle app and Kindle for Web.”

Are you a Canadian Kindle personification impacted by the discontinuation? Reach retired utilizing the shape beneath aliases email america astatine shareyourstory@globalnews.ca to fto america cognize what the move intends for you, and we whitethorn beryllium successful touch for early articles.

Business group had their fingers supra the keys, fresh to go, erstwhile the U.S. authorities launched its tariff-refund portal Monday morning.

Patrick Muldoon, an character who starred successful “Days of Our Lives” and "Melrose Place," has died, his family announced. He was 57.

Muldoon's sister, Shana Muldoon Zappa, announced connected Monday that he was "suddenly taken from this earth."

"Today we woke up and realized yesterday was not conscionable a bad dream," she wrote connected Instagram. "Thank you for the outpouring. We are successful shock."

"Those that knew my relative knew he IS the brightest ray successful each room, successful immoderate moment, connected immoderate day. I judge he is continuing to beryllium truthful successful spirit," Muldoon Zappa wrote. "We don’t person specifications connected immoderate ceremony of life astatine this clip arsenic we are devastated and conscionable trying to process really personification truthful happy, healthy, and afloat of life is abruptly taken from this earth."

The award-winning character began his profession during the off-season while playing assemblage shot for the USC Trojans. He landed a domiciled connected NBC’s “Who’s the Boss?” successful 1990, portraying Alyssa Milano’s boyfriend, and did modeling activity for Calvin Klein, according to IMDb.

Muldoon besides made appearances connected TV shows “Saved by the Bell” and “Silk Stalkings” earlier being formed connected NBC soap opera “Days of Our Lives” successful 1992, wherever he portrayed Austin Reed successful about 500 episodes.

That breakout domiciled successful daytime tv earned him a Soap Opera Digest Award for Best New Actor and a developmental woody pinch Spelling Entertainment.

He appeared connected the Aaron Spelling produced “Melrose Place” from 1995 to 1996, playing instrumentality favourite villain Richard Hart connected the celebrated "Beverly Hills 90210" spinoff.

Muldoon’s costars from “Days of Our Lives” shared messages of remembrance. Alison Sweeney, who played Sami Brady connected the show, published a tribute honoring Muldoon arsenic a colleague.

Patrick Muldoon successful a promotional image for "Melrose Place." 20th Century Fox / Courtesy Everett Collection

“This is specified heartbreaking news. Pat was a uncommon benignant of person—brilliantly talented, endlessly kind, and generous successful spirit,” Sweeney wrote successful an X post. “I was truthful fortunate to person worked pinch him erstwhile I first started astatine Days. He made maine consciousness astatine easiness correct away. He brought his unsocial charm and joke to activity each day. A genuinely talented guy, and 1 who will beryllium profoundly missed.”

Lisa Rinna, 62, different costar connected the soap opera much precocious known arsenic a reality TV prima connected "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" and "The Traitors," shared a throwback photograph of herself pinch Muldoon connected her Instagram story, accompanied by a broken-heart emoji.

In summation to soap operas, Muldoon appeared successful much than 50 characteristic films, including "Starship Troopers" and "Spiders successful 3D."

And beyond acting, he explored producing, singing and songwriting. He produced and acted successful 2020's “The Comeback Trail” alongside Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Tommy Lee Jones.

His about caller domiciled was successful “Dirty Hands,” which is group to beryllium released later this month, according to a station connected his Instagram.

Last week, Muldoon besides shared his excitement connected Instagram about being portion of “KOCKROACH,” directed by Matt Ross and starring Chris Hemsworth, Taron Egerton, Zazie Beetz and Alec Baldwin.

The information showed the sentiment declined from 22 per cent to 9 per cent, marking the lowest level since the bid began successful 2023 and coming astatine a clip erstwhile “concerns about waste and acquisition tensions and tariffs were astatine a peak.”

The study was conducted from Feb. 5 to 25 — earlier the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran connected Feb. 28 successful a warfare that has sent shockwaves done world proviso chains.

“Expectations astatine each horizons stay beneath the highest reached during the tallness of the waste and acquisition conflict successful early 2025,” the study reads.

The study is based connected interviews pinch about 100 firms crossed the country, stating that “trade tensions are weighing little connected firms’ outlooks.”

“Compared pinch caller quarters, less businesses reported impacts connected their expected income aliases costs,” the study reads. “As a result, firms began the first 4th of 2026 amended positioned than they were successful precocious 2025 to look the economical daze associated pinch the warfare successful the Middle East.”

Despite these improvements, “outlooks stay subdued among firms in, aliases serving, industries that are facing export tariffs aliases that are indirectly impacted by U.S. waste and acquisition policies.”

Fewer businesses besides reported that they faced obstacles to increasing their export income owed to uncertainty about U.S. and Canada’s waste and acquisition relationship.

“For example, less firms indicated that they are hesitant to participate the U.S. marketplace aliases that U.S. customers are hesitant to usage Canadian suppliers,” the study reads, pinch conscionable a “small share” of exporting firms reporting accrued income to non-U.S. customers.

“Most businesses had revised up their expectations for input prices, mentioning specifically fuel, freight, fertilizers and speech rates.”

According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Business’ March report, higher wide costs for businesses were 1 of the main reasons for a driblet successful optimism.

Fuel costs, specifically, saw the largest monthly jump among the options study respondents could prime for what was contributing to their wide costs pressures astatine 50 per cent, which was up by 14 percent points.

Canada had produced 32.8 per cent — about 76.1 cardinal tonnes — of the world’s full potash, a cardinal mineral successful fertilizers, successful 2024, remaining the world’s largest potash producer, according to Natural Resources Canada.

The warfare successful Iran has besides had experts saying that Canadians are “unlikely to spot a notable alteration successful food, substance aliases lipid prices successful the adjacent future” earlier this month.

The Bank of Canada is group to denote the latest liking rates connected April 29.

Prediction markets vs. casinos: a comparison of offerings

Prediction markets are online platforms wherever group could stake connected early events, specified arsenic sports, financial marketplace events, elections, and moreover popular culture. These markets tally connected financial instruments called “event contracts,” which often person nominal values of $1 and traders could bargain yes aliases nary positions for a fraction of that value.

Skill

Whereas casino games are built connected chance, prediction markets are each about information. Although it’s imaginable to build skills successful casino games to a definite degree, connected prediction markets, you could triumph if you person amended accusation aliases respond faster.

Fees

The about disruptive quality betwixt playing casino games and betting connected prediction markets, however, is that casino games pit the players against the operators, who ever return a cut. In prediction markets, players spell against each other, and the level takes a mini transaction fee. This makes prediction markets much transparent.

Odds

Whether it’s today, tomorrow, aliases respective years down the line, moreover on the latest casinos connected the internet the games are apt to salary the same. Prediction markets supply excitement because the “payout” fluctuates depending connected events. Scandals, injuries, news, and information each power prices connected the prediction markets.

Driving prediction marketplace growth

But what’s driving the maturation successful fame of prediction markets?

Accuracy

Prediction marketplace prices bespeak beliefs about a imaginable result and are based connected corporate accusation connected the probability of that outcome. The prices are a reliable parameter of really apt definite outcomes are; successful fact, they’re much reliable than polls. For instance, erstwhile polls suggested a necktie would hap betwixt Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in the 2024 US elections, the prediction markets pointed successful a overmuch different direction. On the time earlier the election, 1 prediction marketplace had fixed Trump 58% of the vote.

This appeals to bettors who are willing successful real-world forecasting and strategy. The prices of the statement are, successful themselves, accusation and could springiness clues arsenic to whether to stake ‘Yes’ aliases ‘No.’ Betting connected contracts is besides person to trading connected financial markets, which is very strategic.

Accessibility

The barriers to entry, whether you want to group up a prediction marketplace aliases participate successful one, are low. Risk is comparatively low, and anyone who has entree to the net and is aged capable could return portion successful one.

Social engagement and community-driven insights

The truth that arena statement prices bespeak aggregating beliefs connected an arena demonstrates societal power connected prices. Prediction markets propulsion their accusation about an arena from a wide scope of sources, and communities aliases groups that person other penetration into a taxable could thrust prices.

The effect of prediction markets connected casinos

Prediction markets person go incredibly popular, and immoderate exchanges person been referred to arsenic “stock markets” for trends. Some casinos person seen the worth of their stocks autumn considerably, and immoderate companies successful the gambling manufacture person seen their profits alteration arsenic prediction markets cannibalize them slightly.

One of the advantages prediction markets person complete accepted casinos is that they let punters to stake connected a wide assortment of topics, not conscionable connected casino games. This versatility appeals to a broader conception of the public, particularly young people, who don’t prosecute successful accepted casino gaming. However, immoderate commentators person observed that the prediction markets manufacture has go crowded quickly. Smaller ones could soon fail.

Regulation: protector, opportunity creator

Despite the dense title from prediction markets, immoderate casinos are looking into whether they could create prediction markets of their ain and run nether regularisation by the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Regulation is cardinal here, too. The Trump management supports prediction markets, but casinos are hoping lawmakers will look astatine prediction marketplace building and create regulations that favour casinos and restrict prediction markets’ reach. Some tribal casinos telephone them unlawful gambling and judge the markets sidestep federal, state, and tribal laws. Prediction marketplace operators argue, however, that the trading and events contract-based quality of the markets should spot them nether financial marketplace regulation, alternatively than gambling manufacture regulation.

Prediction markets are celebrated and supply betting options for group who don’t wish to prosecute successful accepted betting. Despite the situation they airs to accepted casinos, the casinos won’t vanish overnight, since array games and slots person excessively galore enthusiasts. Depending connected really regulators take to modulate prediction markets, the 2 different avenues for betting whitethorn moreover peacefully coexist.

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SOFIA, Bulgaria — The center-left conjugation of ex-president Rumen Radev has emerged arsenic the clear victor of Bulgaria's parliamentary election, the country's cardinal electoral committee said Monday, ending half a decade of governmental fragmentation.

With each the ballots counted connected Monday, results showed the Progressive Bulgaria conjugation receiving 44.6% of the vote, immoderate 30 percent points up of the center-right GERB statement of seasoned leader Boyko Borissov and the pro-Western reformist bloc led by the We Continue the Change party. Those parties ran almost cervix and neck, scoring 13.4% and 12.6% respectively. Borissov conceded conclusion and congratulated Radev.

Two different parties besides look to person gained seats successful the 240-seat chamber, according to the latest results.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, connected Monday congratulated Radev connected his predetermination victory.

"Bulgaria is simply a proud personnel of the European family and plays an important domiciled successful tackling our communal challenges. I look guardant to moving together, for the prosperity and information of Bulgaria and Europe," she posted connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter.

Radev promises a "European path" but pinch conditions.

Radev described his party's triumph arsenic unequivocal, a "victory of dream complete distrust, a triumph of state complete fear," saying Bulgaria would "make each effort to proceed connected its European path".

"But judge me, a beardown Bulgaria and a beardown Europe request captious reasoning and pragmatism. Europe has fallen unfortunate to its ain ambition to beryllium a civilized leader successful a world without rules," Radev told reporters.

During his presidency, Radev gained a estimation arsenic being sympathetic to Russia. He many times opposed EU efforts to nonstop subject assistance to Ukraine for its warfare against Russia's full-scale invasion. He has often based on that supporting Ukraine risks drafting Bulgaria into the warfare and has favored reopening talks pinch Russia arsenic a measurement retired of the conflict.

Maria Simeonova, caput of the Sofia Office of the European Council connected Foreign Relations, said that though arsenic president Radev often expressed pro-Russian statements, prompting comparisons to a "new Orbán," fixed his landslide triumph astatine home, he is apt to now activity outer legitimacy done building relationships pinch different European leaders.

"Radev is improbable to openly adopt an Orbán-style rhetoric, astatine slightest successful his engagement pinch European counterparts. His disapproval — peculiarly regarding financial and subject support for Ukraine aliases sanctions against Russia — will beryllium aimed chiefly astatine the home audience," said Simeonova.

Radev resigned from the mostly ceremonial presidency successful January, a fewer months earlier the extremity of his 2nd term, to motorboat a bid to lead the authorities successful the much powerful domiciled arsenic premier minister.

The 62-year-old erstwhile combatant aviator earned a Master of Strategic Studies grade from the U.S. Air War College successful 2003, earlier being appointed Bulgarian aerial unit commander. His supporters are divided betwixt those hoping he will put an extremity to the country's oligarchic corruption and those lining up down his euroskeptic and Russia-friendly views.

Bulgaria's erstwhile blimpish authorities collapsed successful December aft nationwide anti-corruption protests drew hundreds of thousands of chiefly young group to the streets.

Radev's fame surged arsenic he formed himself arsenic an force of the entrenched mafia and their ties to high-ranking politicians. At run rallies he vowed to "remove the corrupt, oligarchic exemplary of governance from governmental power."

NATO and EU personnel Bulgaria has been many times criticized for not tackling corruption and for deficiencies successful the norm of law.

Vessela Tcherneva, Deputy Director of the Berlin-based European Council connected Foreign Relations, said that the about important task for Radev's authorities will not beryllium overseas argumentation but alternatively freeing Bulgarian institutions from the power of Borissov and the leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, Delyan Peevski, an oligarch sanctioned for corruption by the US and Britain.

"For that he would get support from the reformist pro-European conjugation We Continue the Change successful parliament," Tcherneva added.

Maybe this intends an extremity to years of fragmented parliaments

Since 2021, the federation of 6.5 cardinal has struggled pinch fragmented parliaments that produced anemic governments, nary of which managed to past much than a twelvemonth earlier being brought down by thoroughfare protests aliases backroom deals successful parliament.

Tired of the seemingly never-ending predetermination roulette, group connected the thoroughfare reacted pinch mixed feelings to the latest predetermination results.

"Above all, we expect a much unchangeable judicial system, and for spot successful institutions to genuinely beryllium restored. Until now, they person been heavy influenced by various figures, galore of whom, arsenic we could spot from the existent results, person now near the government," said Nikoleta Dimitrova, a 37-year-old shop adjunct from Sofia.

Accountant Cveta Gerogieva, 55, was little optimistic: "I dream that we will really unrecorded a amended life, but I americium not judge that location will beryllium stableness for a agelong period. Probably we will ballot again."

Tired of governmental turmoil, Bulgarians springiness ex-president a convincing instruction for change

Speaking astatine a taxation argumentation roundtable successful Las Vegas, Trump addressed the arena directly, mixing self-aware joke pinch a defense of its purpose. “Sharon delivered McDonald’s to the Oval Office. It was a small spot of a… you know, I mean, to beryllium honest, it was a small tacky,” he said, drafting laughter.

He tied the infinitesimal to earlier campaign-style theatrics. “They travel up pinch these crazy ideas for illustration McDonald’s … the garbage truck,” Trump said, referencing his 2024 run stunts. Those included a staged displacement astatine a McDonald’s successful Pennsylvania and a Wisconsin rally wherever he climbed into a campaign-branded garbage motortruck wearing a information vest.

At the roundtable, he acknowledged the awkwardness. “They’re a small mini [bit] embarrassing, but we do them and you triumph by landslides, you know. So we gotta support to them.”

Trump quickly pivoted to warrant the stunt, veering disconnected his prepared remarks. “It was a very beautiful female opinionated location pinch 2 large bags of McDonald’s hamburgers. And I say, ‘Is this really believable?’ But the constituent of it was she made $11,000 that she had nary thought was coming and it was really great.”

Stunt’s awkward moments

The White House effort to move the arena into a broader governmental connection fell level astatine respective points.

Trump asked Simmons about her husband’s cancer, during which she mentioned he had written an unpublished book about humility. He past tried to framework her arsenic a supporter, asking, “I deliberation you voted for me. Do you think?” She replied, “Um, maybe.” Trump added, “I heard you’re a awesome supporter. We admit it.”

He besides asked whether she believed “men should play successful women’s sports,” referencing his February executive bid connected transgender athletes. Simmons declined, saying she was location to talk taxation policy.

Trump later invited Simmons and her hubby to an Ultimate Fighting Championship arena planned for the White House section to people his 80th day successful June.

DoorDash confirms stunt

DoorDash nationalist affairs caput Julian Crowley confirmed the institution prepared Simmons earlier the event. “Ofc we would speak to Sharon about what to expect earlier she appeared earlier the media and pinch the President,” he wrote. “But, Sharon said for herself and successful support of No Tax connected Tips.”

Crowley besides pushed backmost connected online criticism, engaging straight pinch users. “I emotion a conspiracy arsenic overmuch arsenic the adjacent personification but man you request to touch grass,” he replied to 1 post. “It was a typical transportation to people a argumentation that has bipartisan support pinch the media successful attendance.”

He denied claims that Simmons was an actor. “No 1 is claiming it was a existent delivery. It was intelligibly and evidently a planned arena to people a caller argumentation starting,” Crowley said. “To declare Sharon is simply a prop, plant, aliases an character is wholly incorrect and disconnected base. She is simply a Dasher and she participated to support the argumentation that benefits her.”

Some users noted Simmons was flown successful from Arkansas, raising questions about compensation and lobbying disclosures.

Simmons’ anterior governmental appearances

Simmons antecedently testified astatine a July 25, 2025, House Ways and Means Committee section proceeding successful Las Vegas focused connected Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.” Her quality astatine the White House quickly drew renewed scrutiny.

Republican Representative David Kustoff shared her grounds connected X. Representative Steve Womack, who represents Arkansas’ 3rd District, besides praised her, writing, “I’m incredibly proud that my constituent Sharon was capable to use from the No Tax connected Tips argumentation I helped walk past year. This is what it’s each about — making judge hard-working group for illustration Sharon support much of the money they gain truthful they could amended support their families.”

Simmons appeared successful a Tax Day promotional video identifying herself arsenic a Boulder City, Nevada resident. She later told reporters she now lives successful Arkansas. Crowley said she had simply moved and continues to support the policy. White House spokesperson Kush Desai described Simmons arsenic “one of tens of millions of Americans” benefiting from the “no taxation connected tips” policy.

Kirk Moore, a main astatine Pauls Valley High School, was crowned Friday nighttime aft students elected him successful honour of his heroic efforts to subdue Victor Lee Hawkins, 20, the alleged equipped assailant and a erstwhile pupil of Moore’s.

Hawkins is charged pinch 1 count of shooting pinch intent to kill, 2 counts of feloniously pointing a firearm, and 1 count of carrying a limb to a nationalist assembly, the District 21 District Attorney’s Office said successful a Facebook statement.

In a TikTok video taken astatine the school’s prom, a crowd of students could beryllium seen gathering about Moore, cheering, applauding, and placing a gold-coloured crown connected his caput arsenic he smiles and high-fives a group of female students.

Moore was changeable successful the limb erstwhile the alleged assailant “entered the school, pointed his pistol, and yelled for everyone to get connected the ground, ” typical supplier Meric Mussett of the Oklahoma authorities bureau of investigation said successful a constabulary connection to The Guardian.

Surveillance footage of his life-saving complaint went viral online. In it, he could beryllium seen moving into a hallway, wrestling the gunman onto a chair and forcing the limb from his hand. Another unit personnel past steps retired into the hall, kicks the limb distant from Hawkins, picks it up from the crushed and calmly carries it away.

The main was transported to a adjacent infirmary and treated for a gunshot coiled to the leg. No 1 other was injured during the incident.

In a statement, Moore, who has been an pedagogue for much than 35 years, thanked the organization for the “outpouring of emotion and support” he had received since the attack, adding that he and truthful galore for illustration him are prepared to grip these types of events, saying he was “grateful for his instincts and training,” and that he is recovering and looking guardant to returning to school.

Pauls Valley Police Chief Don May told CBS News past week that Moore’s measured tackle of the assailant undoubtedly prevented a catastrophe.

“It doesn’t astonishment maine the actions that he took, but it is amazing, the actions that he took,” he said.

“There’s not a uncertainty successful my mind that he saved kids’ lives.”

Hawkins, who allegedly entered the schoolhouse pinch 2 loaded semi-automatic pistols, is presently being held successful Garvin County, Okla., pinch bail group astatine $1 million, according to the sheriff’s office.

He reportedly told investigators that Moore was personification he “did not like,” ineligible documents alleged, and said he “wanted to behaviour his ain schoolhouse shooting for illustration the Columbine shooters did.”

One personification was killed and different hospitalized aft a stabbing onslaught successful Burbank Monday, according to authorities.

On Monday about 6 a.m., Burbank Police responded to the 2800 artifact of North Brighton Street to a study of 2 group stabbed wrong a home, according to a Burbank Police news release.

Two women were recovered wrong pinch stab wounds, constabulary said. One died from her injuries and 1 was hospitalized.

Officers searched the area for the fishy but weren’t capable to find anyone matching the beingness description, according to the release.

The narration betwixt the fishy and victims is nether investigation, authorities said.

Detectives are canvassing the vicinity for grounds and reviewing surveillance footage.

The personality of the personification who died hasn’t been released pending notification of adjacent of kin by the Los Angeles County aesculapian examiner’s office.

Anyone pinch accusation related to this lawsuit has been asked to interaction the Burbank Police Department’s Investigation Division astatine (818) 238-3210.

A aviator was hospitalized Monday aft crashing his mini level successful the parking batch of an car shop successful Pacoima, according to authorities.

The clang was reported soon earlier 11 a.m. adjacent the intersection of San Fernando Road and Van Nuys Boulevard, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Police and occurrence crews connected segment unopen down Van Nuys from Ralston Avenue to San Fernando Road because of powerfulness lines that were knocked down by the plane.

Photos of the clang show a level upside down pinch debris scattered successful the parking batch of an O’Reilly Auto Parts. There person been nary different reports of injuries.

The big antheral aviator was pulled from the level and taken to the hospital, the Los Angeles Fire Department said.

Slide over, Jacob Kiplimo. The world’s fastest quality successful the half-marathon is still conscionable that, but the Ugandan’s grounds clip of 57 minutes, 20 seconds, was obliterated Sunday successful Beijing by a 5-foot-5 humanoid robot named Lightning.

Lightning was 1 of much than 100 robots running the 13.1-mile race successful the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (a.k.a Beijing E-Town). Although galore collapsed aliases collided pinch robot brethren, Lightning avoided a superior mishap and crossed the decorativeness line successful 50 minutes, 26 seconds.

That’s 6 minutes, 54 seconds faster than Kiplimo’s people group past period successful Lisbon, aliases about the clip it takes to soft boil an ovum to custard-like perfection. It besides was much than 10 minutes faster than immoderate of the 12,000 men and women who ran the Beijing title successful separate, parallel lanes.

Lightning — agleam reddish and designed by Chinese smartphone marque Honor — slammed into a barricade and toppled down the stretch, but the robot helped itself backmost up pinch quality assistance and propelled its three-foot-long legs to victory.

This was the race’s 2nd year. A twelvemonth ago, galore mechanical competitors overheated and fell. Only six of 21 completed the course. Lightning was about 3 times faster than past year’s victor that vanished successful 2 hours, 40 minutes and 42 seconds.

This year, rules were “optimized,” according to the Beijing Town website, pinch entries moving either by autonomous navigation aliases distant control. Lightning was propelled by autonomous navigation.

Awards were added for Best Endurance, Best Gait, Best Design and Best Perception.

The title was besides acold much awesome than the world’s first Humanoid Robot Games successful Beijing. The three-day August arena included almost 300 teams from 16 countries competing successful shot and kickboxing successful summation to track.

The New York Times reported that during shot matches “child-size robots tripped complete each other, falling down for illustration dominoes” and that 1 robot knocked over a quality unit personnel during a moving event.

A twelvemonth later, the metropolis of Beijing called Sunday’s title “a awesome measurement guardant for the robotics manufacture — accelerating the modulation of humanoid robots from laboratory to large-scale, real-world application.”

Zhao Haijie, 29, ran the fastest clip among humans, finishing successful 1 hour, 7 minutes and 47 seconds. He said the robots successful an adjacent lane were really scooting.

“I felt it was going rather fast,” Zhao said successful an question and reply pinch Beritaja. “It conscionable went whoosh correct past me.”

With each owed respect to the latest procreation of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot, China appears to beryllium the world leader successful robotics. The nonprofit waste and acquisition group International Federation of Robotics says much robots usability successful China than the remainder of the world combined. At slightest 80 humanoid robot companies run successful the country, 5 times that of the United States.

One of China’s starring robotics companies, Unitree Robotics, already has a humanoid robot connected the marketplace that could walk, creation and execute basal tasks. Its slightest costly type costs about $6,000.

“The U.S. leads successful technological innovation, while China excels successful velocity of implementation,” P.K. Tseng, an expert astatine the tech consulting patient TrendForce, told The Times. “The existent turning constituent will get erstwhile humanoid robots move beyond R&D prototypes to large-scale deployment.”

Does creating the world’s fastest bipedal humanoid successful a half-marathon agelong China’s lead successful the wide robotics race?

The about applicable invention that Lightning brought to the title was joints equipped pinch a liquid-cooling strategy adapted from Honor’s smartphones.

Amazon wanted to waste Levi’s Easy Khaki Classic pants for $29.99, but Walmart had lowered the price, and the elephantine online retailer had matched it astatine $25.47 to $26.99.

But Amazon wasn’t happy. It subsequently contacted Levi Strauss, asking the San Francisco apparel institution to person Walmart to raise its price, according to a archive revenge Monday successful a price-fixing lawsuit brought against Amazon by the California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta.

Not only did Walmart raise its price, but a Levi Strauss worker emailed Amazon that, “I’m really hoping we could show this arsenic a impervious lawsuit truthful we could resoluteness issues going forward,” according to the filing.

The speech complete the pricing of the khaki pants is conscionable 1 illustration of about a twelve cited successful the document, revenge successful support of a preliminary injunction Bonta is seeking against Amazon to extremity alleged value fixing.

Bonta’s agency argues that Amazon, which is the largest online retailer successful the U.S. and recorded $717 cardinal successful world sales past year, is leveraging its marketplace powerfulness to inflate unit prices connected its and competing sites.

“Amazon has strong-armed vendors into raising prices elsewhere aliases pulling products from competing retailers each together truthful that Amazon could protect its profit margins,” Bonta said Monday astatine a property convention announcing the filing. “This takes money retired of the pockets of California families each azygous time connected mundane goods, ranging from diapers to clothing to furniture.”

Bonta revenge the lawsuit successful 2022 successful San Francisco Superior Court. The preliminary injunction is being sought successful beforehand of a proceedings group for January. A proceeding connected the petition is group for July 23.

Amazon successful a connection said Monday that the ineligible mobility is simply a “transparent effort to distract from the weakness of its case, coming much than 3 years aft filing its title and based connected supposedly ‘new’ grounds it has had for years.

“Amazon is consistently identified arsenic America’s lowest-priced online retailer, and we’re proud of the debased prices customers find erstwhile shopping successful our store. Amazon looks guardant to responding successful tribunal astatine the due time,” the connection said.

Walmart said successful a statement: “We do not remark connected litigation successful which we are not a party. We will ever activity difficult connected behalf of our customers to support our prices low.”

Levis Strauss did not instantly respond.

The litigation is the latest suit alleging that the Seattle-based retailer has engaged successful value fixing.

The Federal Trade Commission, 18 states and Puerto Rico person accused the institution of abusing its marketplace position to inflate prices connected different online unit platforms, overcharge sellers and stifle competition. The 2023 national suit revenge successful Seattle mostly mirrored California’s case.

The lawsuit, which has yet to spell to trial, seeks a imperishable injunction that would prohibit Amazon from engaging successful unlawful behaviour and loosen its “monopolistic power to reconstruct competition.”

Last year, Amazon agreed to salary $2.5 billion to settee different 2023 FTC suit accusing it of duping group into automatically renewing Amazon Prime subscriptions done “manipulative, coercive, aliases deceptive user-interface designs,” and making it analyzable to extremity memberships.

Under the settlement, 1 of the largest to travel retired of an FTC action, Amazon is paying up to $51 to eligible customers.

The institution did not admit wrongdoing and said the colony “allows america to move guardant and attraction connected innovating for customers.”

The 19-page document, revenge Monday successful San Francisco Superior Court, provided specifications about Amazon’s alleged price-fixing scheme, mostly derived from emails betwixt Amazon and the vendors who waste products connected its site.

The speech betwixt Amazon and Levi Strauss was cited arsenic 1 of 3 methods the online retailer has utilized to hole and raise prices.

The alleged Levi Strauss strategy outlined successful the archive progressive getting about price-matching pledges that consequence successful a “downward unit connected price” by either Amazon aliases the competitor agreeing, done the communal vendor, to raise the value aliases make the merchandise temporarily unavailable truthful that the value could increase.

In different alleged scheme, Amazon raised prices connected price-matched items and asked its vendors to person competitors raise their prices. In 1 instance, the suit alleges, Amazon raised the prices connected much than 10 pet treats sold connected Chewy Pet Food & Supplies, a publically traded rival retailer.

Chewy did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The 3rd alleged strategy progressive a vendor, astatine Amazon’s request, taking distant products from a competing retailer that sold them for acold little than Amazon. The suit cites 4 products a furnishings vendor agreed to extremity providing to an undisclosed competitor owed to its debased prices.

“If the problematic retail(er) does not hole by the extremity of the week, we will discontinue [these products] from your problematic title to guarantee that Amazon could return to a patient authorities pinch these items,” the vendor emailed Amazon, according to the filing.

Amazon had warned the furnishings vendor that it would region each 4 of its products from Amazon’s website “in the adjacent fewer days’ — instantly earlier the captious income days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday — if the pricing rumor was not resolved,” according to the filing.

Bonta said his agency was “focusing on” Amazon successful its case, and not the vendors and different retailers, who he said were mounting prices they thought due anterior to Amazon’s interference.

In seeking the injunction, Bonta’s agency argues that Amazon threatens “dire consequences if vendors do not comply. Vendors, cowed by Amazon’s overwhelming bargaining leverage and fearing punishment, comply,” according to the filing.

The injunction would barroom Amazon from communicating pinch its vendors about the prices of its products connected different online sites, among different prohibitions. Bonta besides is seeking a court-appointed show to oversee Amazon’s practices, restitution for customers and damages erstwhile the lawsuit goes to trial.

The lawyer general’s agency had antecedently revenge the grounds pinch the tribunal successful February but the archive was highly redacted from nationalist view.

Attempted breach

The fishy jumped the bollard and was confronted astatine the pedestrian gate. By: MEGA

The incident occurred connected the northeast broadside of the complex, adjacent the Treasury Building. According to officials, the unidentified fishy jumped a building bollard and approached a pedestrian gate, wherever officers confronted him. A beingness altercation followed earlier he was taken into custody. One Secret Service serviceman sustained a insignificant wounded during the encounter. Both the serviceman and the fishy were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, the agency said.

Secret Service’s response

One Secret Service serviceman suffered a insignificant laceration. By: MEGA

Anthony Guglielmi, Secret Service main of communications, described the incident successful a statement. He said, “A man was quickly detained by uniformed U.S. Secret Service constabulary officers aft jumping complete a building bollard adjacent the Treasury Building connected the northeast broadside of the complex. Officers encountered the individual adjacent a pedestrian gate, wherever he engaged successful a beingness altercation earlier being taken into custody. One serviceman sustained a laceration.” Authorities person not released the suspect’s personality aliases said what charges, if any, he whitethorn face.

Security incidents

Both the fishy and the serviceman were treated for insignificant injuries. By: MEGA

The attempted breach adds to a bid of caller information incidents about the White House complex, an area that remains nether changeless scrutiny owed to its proximity to high-profile national buildings. Even insignificant aliases short-lived intrusions are treated arsenic superior threats, officials person said, fixed the location’s symbolic and operational importance. In caller years, the Secret Service has responded to aggregate attempts to breach the perimeter, including fence-jumping incidents, the throwing of objects and unauthorized entries. Such events person occasionally prompted little lockdowns aliases accrued screening procedures.

The White House complex

Officials opportunity breach appears to beryllium isolated and not portion of a broader threat. By: MEGA

The White House analyzable is secured done a layered strategy that includes fencing, fixed barriers, checkpoints, surveillance and a changeless rule enforcement presence. Construction projects and impermanent barriers could change pedestrian routes, requiring adjustments successful information coverage. Officials opportunity the swift detention and aesculapian consequence successful the caller incident bespeak those layered protections, which are designed to forestall intruders from reaching protected areas aliases individuals. Authorities person not indicated whether the breach effort is linked to immoderate broader threat aliases if it was an isolated act.

Gurpreet Dhillon, who represented Wards 9 and 10 successful the metropolis from 2014 to 2022, was accused by an unnamed complainant of intersexual battle and harassment aft a travel pinch the metropolis to Turkey successful precocious 2019.

A study from Brampton’s integrity commissioner successful 2020 included a transcript of the alleged incident and recovered Dhillon had breached the council’s codification of conduct. It recommended suspending his salary for 90 days — the maximum penalty.

The complainant successful the investigation, however, appears to person since withdrawn her allegation and said she regretted really the process had unfolded.

According to an email from Dhillon obtained by BERITAJA, a missive withdrawing the title was sent to the City of Brampton successful 2023.

But the study that recovered he collapsed the codification of behaviour remains connected its website.

In a lengthy connection to the city’s existent legislators, Dhillon alleged the metropolis solicitor, integrity commissioner and members of assembly had grounded to region the study successful bid to discredit him.

“I americium penning to you straight because it has go undeniable that the ineligible and administrative processes regarding the July 2020 Integrity Commissioner’s (IC) study are being deliberately weaponized for governmental purposes,” portion of the connection said.

“The City Solicitor’s Office and the IC person intentionally misled aliases delayed giving important accusation to Council.”

A spokesperson for the City of Brampton said the integrity commissioner is arms-length and that the metropolis would “not beryllium providing remark connected the constituent of the allegations referenced” because they were not responsible for the report.

The city’s integrity commissioner did not respond to aggregate requests for comment.

John Mascarin, a lawyer and municipal expert, said it was a “fascinating” lawsuit of the divided successful responsibilities betwixt integrity commissioners, councillors and the metropolis itself.

The first title came successful early 2020, relating to a business travel successful November 2019.

According to the integrity commissioner report, the complainant, a business proprietor successful the city, alleged that an incident occurred while Dhillon was successful her edifice room. In her report, the integrity commissioner recommended the councillor’s salary beryllium suspended.

“I wish to authorities that I americium displeased that location is nary avenue (at slightest insofar arsenic it relates to my instruction and jurisdiction) that allows for Councillor Dhillon’s contiguous removal from metropolis council,” the integrity commissioner wrote astatine the time.

The study included a transcript of the alleged situation, which the integrity commissioner said she had heard a signaling of.

The investigation said the complainant had gone to Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, who past said to the integrity commissioner.

The integrity commissioner besides interviewed the erstwhile chair of the Brampton Board of Trade, who was connected the travel and, according to the report, said he had been told about the incident erstwhile he was overseas.

Brampton’s caput of economical improvement was besides interviewed, who was told about it aft the waste and acquisition mission. The integrity commissioner besides said she had spoken to a lawyer successful Turkey who “assisted the Complainant successful dealing pinch the incident” successful January 2020.

At the time, Peel Regional Police said they’d interviewed the complainant but wished they had nary jurisdiction complete what happened successful Turkey.

No charges were laid, and Dhillon vehemently denied the allegations.

According to the email Dhillon precocious sent to Brampton City Council, the complainant past contacted the metropolis successful 2023 to retreat her complaint. The erstwhile councillor’s email included a letter, pinch the signature redacted, successful which the complainant appeared to retract the allegation she had made.

“While I understand that my first accusation whitethorn person brought attraction to definite issues, I now realise that my accusations were misguided,” the letter, besides seen by BERITAJA, said.

“I person travel to realise that my representation of the events successful mobility whitethorn person been clouded by a number of factors including affectional distress, misinformation and coercion from group who were not genuine pinch their intentions.”

BERITAJA contacted the lawyer who represented the unnamed complainant for comment. He said he wasn’t capable to interaction her and truthful couldn’t comment.

Two years ago, a section Brampton media outlet reported the metropolis solicitor had informed councillors the allegation had been withdrawn done a memo, which did not reside why.

BERITAJA was besides incapable to interaction the complainant, who remains unnamed.

Around the aforesaid clip the title was first made, successful metropolis assembly meetings, Dhillon was among respective members who past opposed Mayor Brown connected a number of issues.

They sought to motorboat investigations into contracts they alleged he was tied to and removed some the existent integrity commissioner and metropolis solicitor, who they suggested were aligned pinch the mayor.

In the summertime of 2022, Brown held a news convention to declare that nationalist money had gone to a colony involving the complainant. Dhillon said the move was “clearly politically motivated” and announced he planned to return ineligible action.

A fewer months later, Dhillon ran for re-election and was defeated.

In the email he sent to each councillors past week, Dhillon alleged that the truth that the missive appearing to retreat the title had not been made nationalist was deliberate.

He accused the metropolis solicitor and integrity commissioner of “intentionally” misleading councillors about the lawsuit aliases delaying the merchandise of information.

“Both elder metropolis officials were dismissed by a Council majority, which included me, past word pursuing concerns that bias had influenced their behaviour and performance,” he wrote.

“They were reinstated to their positions, and they person since undertaken a coordinated effort against me. In my opinion, this is simply a clear enactment of individual retribution for their anterior termination.”

The integrity commissioner did not respond to questions sent by BERITAJA — but the metropolis said successful a connection it could not enactment without her direction.

“Under the Municipal Act, 2001, municipalities are required to name an Integrity Commissioner, who operates arsenic an independent statutory serviceman responsible for applying the Code of Conduct, conducting investigations, and reporting connected their findings,” a spokesperson wrote.

“City Council’s domiciled is constricted to appointing the Integrity Commissioner and receiving reports and immoderate associated recommendations.”

Withdrawing integrity committee complaints appears comparatively rare, and Ontario’s assembly morals watchdogs are mostly guided by codes of morals somewhat unsocial to the cities they serve.

Earlier this year, Fort Erie assembly voted to retreat an integrity commissioner against Niagara Region chair Bob Gale aft he resigned. That ballot was for a title alternatively than a report, which are triggered erstwhile complaints are submitted.

Mascarin said he felt the integrity commissioner’s independency meant it was incumbent connected their agency to correct investigations if they became alert the facts had changed.

“As the integrity commissioner, I would want to do that because it’s my report, truthful I consciousness it should beryllium connected the integrity commissioner,” he explained. “Now, I understand really personification could say, ‘Hey, council, it’s your website, you’re the ones that should do something.’ But it’s not their report.”

Part of the interest about leaving the determination to council, he said, was that it could group a precedent of councillors trying to amend independent integrity commissioner reports they didn’t work together with.

“It is an independent study from an integrity commissioner that otherwise,” he said. “I would not for illustration it if personification went and removed a study that I felt should stay connected there, for instance.”

Separately successful his email, Dhillon besides accused unnamed members of assembly of “political obstruction” to “prolong” the issue. He claimed they had demanded he “not tally for office” — but did not see grounds of those threats successful the connection he sent.

In the email he sent to each councillors, Dhillon said he was “only willing successful the restoration of the truth and my bully name.”

He said he would waive his declare of $6 cardinal successful damages for defamation if the study was removed and a nationalist connection issued by the city.

“I person consistently attempted to resoluteness this matter softly to protect the City from the embarrassment of a nationalist trial,” the connection said. “Instead, I person been forced to jump done 1 procedural hoop aft different successful what has go a calculated effort to debar a resolution.”

In a little connection to BERITAJA, Dhillon said he was “disappointed” his title was nationalist but “hopeful Council will yet enactment and clear this defamatory study truthful my family and the City of Brampton could move forward.”

The first information of the NBA playoffs tipped disconnected complete the weekend, and we saw tons of lopsided contests. Every crippled was decided by 9 points aliases more, and each higher seed won its game, isolated from the Detroit Pistons, the No. 1 seed successful the Eastern Conference, who were stunned yesterday by the eighth-seeded Orlando Magic.

Missed the action? Our Beritaja sports squad catches you up below. For continuing sum of the NBA playoffs, beryllium judge to cheque backmost present and our website.

Eastern Conference

The Orlando Magic entered the playoffs arsenic the No. 8 seed successful the East, coming disconnected a mostly disappointing regular play that put some their coach and prima players connected the basking seat. Then yesterday, they upset the top-seeded Detroit Pistons, 112-101. Paolo Banchero led the Magic pinch 23 points, but it was a balanced effort from Orlando, arsenic each 5 starters scored astatine slightest 16 points.

The Pistons, meanwhile, only had 2 players people successful double figures: Cade Cunningham and Tobias Harris. There were concerns about Detroit’s deficiency of secondary scoring headed into the postseason, and those concerns played out. Who will measurement up to trim the load connected Cunningham moving forward?

“We’re sick about losing this one,” Cunningham said aft posting a playoff career-best 39 points. “It’s a agelong series.”

Earlier, the Boston Celtics cruised past the Philadelphia 76ers, handling their longtime rival 123-91. The duo of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown scored 51 points. The Celtics outscored the 76ers from down the 3-point statement 48 to 12. Philly faces an uphill battle, arsenic halfway Joel Embiid is retired while he recovers from an emergency appendectomy.

The first crippled of the play saw the Cleveland Cavaliers conclusion the Toronto Raptors 126-113, a coagulated commencement successful the first playoff crippled for the Cavs’ tandem of Donovan Mitchell and James Harden. Raptors prima Brandon Ingram scored only 17 points successful the nonaccomplishment and said aft the crippled he needs to sprout the shot more.

Also connected Saturday, the New York Knicks hit the Atlanta Hawks 113-102. Jalen Brunson started the crippled connected occurrence for the Knickerbockers, scoring 19 points successful the first quarter. He vanished pinch 28, while Karl-Anthony Towns added 25. Physicality was an rumor for the Hawks, arsenic the Knicks took 30 free throws to Atlanta’s 19.

New York Knicks defender Jalen Brunson goes to the handbasket arsenic Atlanta Hawks defender Dyson Daniels defends during the 2026 NBA Playoffs connected April 18, 2026.Vincent Carchietta / Imagn Images

Western Conference

Last night, Victor Wembanyama, the 7-foot-4 French phenom, made his playoff debut pinch the second-seeded San Antonio Spurs, and he did not disappoint. He made 5 3-pointers and poured successful 35 points, arsenic the Spurs topped the No. 7 Portland Trail Blazers, 111-98.

In the crowd were Wembanyama’s predecessors, the Spurs legendary large men from the ‘90s and 2000s Tim Duncan and David Robinson. NBC cameras trim to the brace arsenic they admired 1 peculiarly awesome move from the Frenchman.

“It’s truthful cool,” Wembanyama said of seeing them there. Having them about the squad facility, positive different Spurs legends, “it feels safe,” he said. “It feels for illustration if you trip, there’s a batch of hands that are fresh to drawback you.”

Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs drives to the handbasket during the crippled against the Portland Trail Blazers during the 2026 NBA Playoffs connected April 19, 2026.Michael Gonzales / NBAE via Getty Images

Also connected Sunday, No. 1 seed Oklahoma City Thunder blasted the No. 8 Phoenix Suns by 35 points. Reigning MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a team-high 25 points, acknowledgment mostly to his activity astatine the free propulsion line, wherever he made 15 of his 17 attempts.

On Saturday, Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray powered the third-seeded Denver Nuggets to a 116-105 triumph complete the No. 6 Minnesota Timberwolves. Jokic posted a triple-double, and Murray scored 30 points, a number that was besides inflated by his 16 made free throws.

Meanwhile, the No. 4 Los Angeles Lakers edged retired the No. 5 Houston Rockets, successful the closest crippled of the weekend. Just earlier the game, the Rockets ruled retired Kevin Durant pinch a knee injury. He’d apparently bumped his knee during believe earlier successful the week.

The Lakers were missing injured stars Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves, too. But 41-year-old LeBron James had a stellar crippled — 19 points, 13 assists and 8 rebounds — and led Los Angeles to a 107-98 win.

Lakers guardant LeBron James shoots the shot against Houston Rockets guardant Jabari Smith Jr. and defender Amen Thompson successful the 2nd half during crippled 1 of the first information of the 2026 NBA Playoffs connected April 18, 2026.Kirby Lee / Imagn Images

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He was a spectator erstwhile his squad fell to the Florida Panthers successful the Stanley Cup last for a 2nd consecutive year.

“It was very hard,” Hyman said Monday successful Edmonton earlier Game 1 of a first-round bid against the Anaheim Ducks. “Very, very hard. Way easier to play.”

Hyman had 5 goals and six assists and 111 hits successful 15 playoff games erstwhile he was injured May 27 successful Game 4 of the Western Conference final.

Hyman collided pinch Dallas Stars winger Mason Marchment. Hyman required room and sat retired the first 19 games of this regular season

The nonaccomplishment of Hyman dented Edmonton’s scoring extent astatine a important clip successful the outpouring of 2025, but the 33-year-old doesn’t intend to alteration his post-season style successful 2026. Hard checking is required successful the playoffs, he said.

“The play I sewage wounded connected was a fluke play. It wasn’t a play that I was going to deed somebody,” Hyman said. “There’s nary relationship betwixt maine upping the hits and maine getting injured, successful my opinion.

“It’s important to bring physicality successful the playoffs. It’s important to elevate your game, to bring different layer. These games, everybody gets better, they’re tighter, harder to score, and it’s checking. It’s a different type of lucky than the regular season.”

Oilers caput coach Kris Knoblauch is good pinch the six-foot-one, 210-pound Hyman throwing his weight about successful the 2026 playoffs.

“He’s 1 of the champion forecheckers successful the league. I don’t deliberation he gets capable in installments for that,” Knoblauch said. “He’s capable to disrupt the different team’s breakouts pinch his physicality, his velocity and having a bully stick, which allows america to play a batch of clip successful the violative zone.

“Do I expect him to group records connected hits? No, but if he does, that’s great, and him bringing that physicality is bully for our team.”

Edmonton doesn’t trust connected Hyman unsocial to bring the post-season muscle. Winger Vasily Podkolzin classed 3rd successful playoff hits past play (100) and led the Oilers this regular play (242).

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Oilers guardant Adam Henrique was a Duck the past clip Anaheim reached the playoffs successful 2018.

The Ducks were swept successful the first information by the San Jose Sharks that year. Henrique past toiled done 5 playoff-free seasons pinch Anaheim earlier Edmonton acquired him astatine the 2024 waste and acquisition deadline.

The 36-year-old centre from Brantford, Ont., has since reached the Stanley Cup last the past 2 years pinch Edmonton.

Henrique lauded his erstwhile longtime Ducks teammate Troy Terry for his contributions successful getting Anaheim backmost into the playoffs.

“It looks a batch different location now than what it was erstwhile I was there, Henrique said.

“I emotion Troy and person a batch of respect for him arsenic a player. Go done a batch of reliable years there, and it takes a agelong clip to build a playoff squad and a contender.

“They’ve done a bully occupation of building that, and he’s been a large portion of that.”

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Make that 12 consecutive seasons of NHL playoffs for Oilers shutdown defenceman Mattias Ekholm.

Only 4 different progressive NHL players person appeared successful a twelve aliases much consecutive post-seasons successful their careers: Charlie Coyle, Ryan Reaves (13); Ryan McDonagh, Nino Niederreiter (12).

Defencemen Nicklas Lidstrom and Larry Robinson clasp the NHL grounds pinch 20 consecutive appearances.

Ekholm still seeks a Stanley Cup aft reaching the last pinch Nashville (2017) and Edmonton (2024, 2025).

“I don’t cognize what to show you. I’ve been connected very bully teams, too. Let’s commencement there,” the 35-year-old Swede said Monday. “Everybody wants to get successful the playoffs, right? To beryllium capable to do that for a agelong clip is simply a bully thing, but you ever want to decorativeness connected top.

“I haven’t been capable to do it yet, but I consciousness for illustration I’m connected a awesome squad again. We’ve sewage arsenic bully of a changeable arsenic anybody else. Playoffs (are) awesome, but you’ve sewage to effort and make the about of it.”

An undisclosed wounded kept Ekholm retired of the 2025 playoffs until Game 5 of the Western Conference last against Dallas.

This study by BERITAJA was first published April 20, 2026.

Only a week aft animal services officials successful Riverside County discovered 480 ducks surviving successful crowded, outdoor cages, each of the ducks person been adopted, the consequence of a what authorities are describing arsenic a monolithic “teamwork and coordination” effort.

The Riverside County Department of Animal Services recovered the ducks Tuesday aft investigating overcrowding conditions astatine a spot successful unincorporated Riverside County, according to the agency. The birds were taken to the San Jacinto Valley Animal Campus, wherever officials urgently called connected the nationalist and rescue organizations to thief spot them opening Wednesday.

According to a social media update from the San Jacinto Valley Animal Campus, each 480 ducks person been rescued aliases adopted, marking 1 of the largest azygous intake-and-placement efforts for the section successful complete a decade.

“This large-scale cognition required extended teamwork and coordination crossed our department,” Riverside County officials said successful the societal media update.

Animal work officials were not disposable to explicate who had adopted the animals and whether they were adopted arsenic pets aliases food. But Daniel Markichevich told KABC that he and his fiancée Savannah Burgardt visited the San Jacinto shelter connected Wednesday and planned connected adopting 20 ducks for their San Jacinto property.

“We person a 3.5-acre farm, truthful they will conscionable spell correct into the area and enjoy, and we’ll get retired location and look astatine them, eat their eggs and person a full afloat life for them,” said Markichevich, who precocious completed building connected a pond successful their backyard.

An animal sanctuary successful Vacaville, dubbed the Funky Chicken Rescue, took successful 8 of the ducks, according to a societal media post.

Officials said the original proprietor of the ducks had intended to create a sanctuary for the animals but animal power officers yet wished that conditions required intervention, citing improper husbandry and concerns about the number of birds being housed.

Before taking successful the ducks, the animal services agency coordinated pinch the California Department of Food and Agriculture to trial a sample of the ducks for zoonotic diseases, according to the county. All results came backmost antagonistic but early assessments indicated the birds had not received capable care, according to authorities.

“Overcrowding could lend to accent and decreased immune function,” Itzel Vizcarra, main veterinarian for the region animal services agency, said successful a statement. “Inadequate nutrition, peculiarly vitamin A deficiency, could impair the lining of the digestive tract, predisposing birds to inflammation and secondary illness.”

The swift placement effort was supported successful portion by organization donations, including much than 70 bags of waterfowl provender provided by a section business, according to the San Jacinto Valley Animal Campus.

While the ducks now person caller homes, officials said the investigation into overcrowding conditions astatine the original spot is ongoing.

This play saw the continuation of flood barriers being put up crossed the Interlake region arsenic group successful the cardinal communities hole for the near-annual flood. The flood is expected to statesman soon, but it is unclear precisely when, arsenic temperatures are forecast to emergence successful the coming days.

“As overmuch as, I think, about of the state hasn’t liked the acold spring, the acold upwind has really been adjuvant successful Peguis complete the past week, successful particular,” Premier Wab Kinew told reporters connected Monday.

“A batch of advancement was made, including complete the weekend.”

Flood protection activity is still underway astatine dozens of homes successful Peguis First Nation, Kinew added. The premier visited the organization past Thursday to assistance pinch those efforts, which included sandbagging and mounting up tiger dams.

A heightened flood consequence successful the region complete the play prompted the First Nation’s chief, Stan Bird, to declare a authorities of emergency on Saturday.

In adjacent Fisher River Cree Nation, a authorities of emergency was besides put successful place that day.

Currently, location are nary removal orders for either nation, but Bird said they are successful the last stages of implementing a plan.

“The removal scheme will beryllium shared pinch (the) organization erstwhile it is finalized. Emergency numbers will beryllium provided, the registration process will beryllium very clear, and location will beryllium a constituent of interaction astatine the various evacuee locations,” said the main successful Saturday’s update.

The authorities of emergency for Fisher River Cree Nation allows them to “enforce mandatory evacuations if necessary,” the federation said successful its declaration.

“Fisher River is looking for illustration they’re successful a comparatively bully position, each things considered pinch the flood preparations,” Kinew said astatine the southbound Winnipeg property conference.

If an removal is called, residents successful Peguis First Nation are being advised to prepare to beryllium distant from location for astatine slightest 2 weeks.

The main expressed concern about the strength of this flood, saying it may reach the same levels as in 2022.

Former authorities Controller Betty Yee dropped retired of the 2026 governor’s title connected Monday, citing debased levels of support from voters and donors.

Yee, a Democrat, was portion of a sprawling section of politicians vying to switch termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom. But contempt the bevy of salient candidates moving to lead the nation’s about populous authorities and the world’s fourth-largest economy, this year’s governor’s title has agelong lacked a clear front-runner good known by the electorate.

“The full conception that voters are looking for acquisition and competence is not a apical priority, and that’s been really my wheelhouse successful position of really we grounded this run was based connected my experience,” she said successful a virtual property convention Monday morning. “The donors person felt the chill of the polling ... and it really conscionable came down to wherever I’m not going to person capable resources to get america to the decorativeness line.”

The erstwhile two-term authorities controller did not instantly endorse different campaigner and said she would return a fewer days to measure the section earlier making an announcement.

The race was upended earlier this period erstwhile then-Rep. Eric Swalwell, among the starring Democrats successful the race, was accused of intersexual battle and different misconduct. The East Bay Democrat, who is facing aggregate criminal investigations, promptly ended his gubernatorial bid and resigned from Congress.

Yee, 68, was good regarded by Democrats during her tenure successful Sacramento. And she highlighted her no-drama persona connected Thursday.

“California — had capable chaos, fearfulness and horrendous governmental scandals? Ready for calm, cool, collected change? Some whitethorn see that boring. But that’s the point. We request Boring Betty,” Yee posted connected the societal media tract X. “No crisis. No circus. Just competent, drama-free activity you could trust. #BoringisBetter”

But she ne'er had the financial resources to aggressively compete successful a authorities pinch galore of the about costly media markets successful the nation.

Yee reported raising about $583,000 for her gubernatorial bid successful 2025, according to run fundraising reports revenge pinch the California caput of state’s office. Yee’s announcement that she is dropping retired of the title came days earlier the latest financial disclosures will beryllium publically reported.

Despite being elected to the authorities Board of Equalization doubly and arsenic authorities controller twice, Yee was not wide known by about Californians. She ne'er cracked double digits successful gubernatorial polls.

Her sanction will still look connected the ballot. She was among the candidates who rebuffed state Democratic Party leaders’ petition earlier this twelvemonth to reconsider their viability amid fears that the statement could beryllium unopen retired of the November wide predetermination because of the state’s unsocial superior system. The apical 2 vote-getters successful the June superior will move connected to to the November wide election, sloppy of statement affiliation.

Though California’s electorate is overwhelmingly Democratic, the constitution of the gubernatorial section makes it statistically imaginable for Republicans to triumph the apical 2 spots if Democratic voters splinter among their party’s candidates. Yee said fearfulness of that script playing retired “kind of took over” the gubernatorial race.

“Was it possible? Yes. Was it plausible? No, we’re successful California. That was not going to happen,” she said, adding that the top-two superior strategy should beryllium done distant with.

Still, Yee was beloved by Democratic Party activists, and antecedently served arsenic the party’s vice chair.

No Democratic campaigner reached the basal period to triumph the party’s charismatic endorsement astatine its February convention, but Yee came successful 2nd pinch support from 17% of delegates contempt calls for her to driblet retired of the race.

“Every canvass shows that this title is wide open, and I cognize this party,” she said successful an question and reply astatine the convention. “Frankly, I’ve been successful positions wherever it’s been a crowded field, and we activity difficult and candidates emerge.”

The gubernatorial superior will return spot June 2, though voters will commencement receiving message ballots successful about 2 weeks.

Government sources person confirmed to BERITAJA that making the move imperishable will beryllium portion of an omnibus measure that will beryllium tabled successful the Alberta Legislature later this week.

The confirmation comes aft Premier Danielle Smith said successful an question and reply pinch Postmedia that the move to daylight redeeming clip this outpouring was the past clip clocks successful Alberta would beryllium changed, meaning the clocks will not beryllium falling backmost an hr successful the fall, nor will they beryllium moved up an hr adjacent spring.

The authorities to make the move imperishable would still request to beryllium voted connected successful the Legislature, but judging by Smith’s comments to Postmedia, it appears that is conscionable a formality.

Going forward, this intends Alberta (which observes Mountain time) would beryllium connected the aforesaid clip arsenic Saskatchewan (which observes cardinal modular time) year-round. .

Alberta clocks would besides beryllium an hr later than British Columbia (which is connected Pacific time), wherever the move to daylight redeeming clip was already made permanent erstwhile B.C. residents moved their clocks guardant an hr connected March 8, 2026.

The move besides comes 5 years aft Albertans voted successful a province-wide referendum, by the narrowest of margins — 50.2 per cent to 49.8 per cent — to cull the thought of moving permanently to daylight redeeming time.

However, pursuing B.C.’s determination to make the move imperishable this spring, Premier Smith said her authorities would erstwhile again see abandoning the practice of changing clocks doubly per year.

The state traditionally “springs forward” connected the 2nd Sunday successful March and “falls back” connected the first Sunday successful November.

However, according to the Pew Research Center, only about a 3rd of the world’s countries travel daylight redeeming time. The immense mostly of them are successful Europe.

A study by the provincial authorities successful 1991 besides showed that 91 per cent of surveyed Albertans were successful favour of moving permanently to daylight redeeming time.

The erstwhile NDP authorities besides explored doing distant pinch daylight clip successful 2017, but did not spell up successful portion complete concerns about the effect connected hose schedules and starting times for NHL games.

The big girl of U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., died following a "decades-long conflict pinch juvenile glucosuria and different wellness issues," the lawmaker's agency said Monday.

Madison Warner was 36.

"We are heartbroken beyond words by the passing of our beloved girl ... aft a decades-long conflict pinch juvenile glucosuria and different wellness issues," according to a connection by the elder legislator from Virginia and woman Lisa Collins.

"She filled our lives pinch emotion and laughter, and her absence leaves an immeasurable void. We are grateful for the loving support of friends and family during this difficult clip and inquire for privateness arsenic we navigate this profound loss."

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Virginia, astatine the Capitol connected Jan. 6, 2026.Al Drago / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

Warner is successful the midst of a re-election campaign, seeking the Democrat's 4th word successful agency representing Old Dominion.

Condolences from crossed the governmental spectrum began pouring successful soon aft the announcement of his daughter's death.

Vice President JD Vance, a Republican who is often astatine likelihood pinch Warner connected policy, posted that his family was reasoning of the Warners.

"Our prayers are pinch Sen. Warner, his daughter, and their full family," Vance posted to X. "What a unspeakable nonaccomplishment astatine specified a young age. May God comfortableness them."

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., said successful a statement, "Mark, I’m praying for you and your family arsenic you grieve this unimaginable loss."

"Even successful this grief, God is adjacent to the brokenhearted, holding you successful ways we cannot ever spot aliases consciousness correct now," Warnock wrote.

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The Onion is 1 measurement person to taking complete Infowars.

The satirical news tract connected Monday launched a rebrand of right-wing commentator Alex Jones’ arguable level nether a licensing woody that the Onion agreed to pinch a court-appointed administrator who is presently overseeing Infowars.

The administrator, Gregory Milligan, has asked a Texas territory judge to o.k. the agreement. Under the terms, first reported by The New York Times, the Onion’s genitor company, Global Tetrahedron, would salary $81,000 a period to licence Infowars.com and the Infowars marque for an first six months, pinch an action to renew for different six months.

On Monday afternoon, The Onion posted a short clip to societal media that featured its bulb logo trademark wrong the “o” successful Infowars, alongside a satirical op-ed by Global Tetrahedron’s clone founder, Bryce Tetraeder.

“With the thief of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited woody to return complete InfoWars,” Onion CEO Ben Collins wrote successful a station connected Bluesky Monday. (Collins antecedently covered disinformation and conspiracy theories for Beritaja).

Creative guidance of the rebrand is being led by comedian Tim Heidecker.

Representatives for Jones and The Onion did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

The woody will not beryllium charismatic until the judge approves it, and Jones could entreaty immoderate ruling.

Jones grew to go 1 of the about well-known replacement media personalities pinch his Infowars brand, which he launched successful 1999. The cognition chiefly centered about mendacious and often bizarre claims about expansive conspiracies and authorities wrongdoing.

But the destiny of Infowars has been successful limbo ever since Jones declared bankruptcy successful 2022 aft a assemblage awarded the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting unfortunate $50 million.

A 2nd defamation suit involving Sandy Hook parents resulted successful the largest-ever financial punishment successful specified a case, $1.4 billion. Jones has falsely claimed the 2012 simple shooting, successful which 20 students and six adults were killed, was a hoax.

In 2024, a bankruptcy judge group up an auction for the Infowars tract and brand, attracting conscionable 2 bidders: a institution representing Jones, and 1 representing The Onion. A bankruptcy trustee and the families initially agreed to judge the Onion’s bid contempt a perchance little valuation. Jones and his attorneys said the bid was faulty, and the trustee decided to move the lawsuit to Texas wherever Jones’ first defamation suit occurred.

Last week, BERITAJA reported much than 150 inmates were mistakenly released betwixt 2021 and 2025, pinch immoderate missing for months without being caught.

Solicitor General Michael Kerzner initially gave the belief he was conscionable learning about the issue, promising to “get to the bottommost of it,” contempt being briefed connected it much than a twelvemonth earlier.

He past told MPPs inmates were “immediately” reapprehended, his agency later acknowledging that wasn’t the case and the curate had mispoken aggregate times during the power of debate.

On Monday, Ontario Liberal interim leader John Fraser grilled Kerzner connected the mistake, asking him really jails tally by his authorities could person mislaid aggregate inmates, and really he hadn’t acted sooner connected an rumor his agency is regularly notified about.

“Let’s group the grounds straight: inmates must enactment successful jailhouse until the courts determine otherwise,” the solicitor wide said during mobility period, appearing to past pivot to blasted courts and correctional workers.

“It’s unacceptable erstwhile a corrections aliases a tribunal unit makes an administrative correction about the day of the release. When these releases happen, inmates are returned to custody arsenic soon arsenic is possible.”

Kerzner did not repetition his incorrect declare that inmates are “immediately” returned to custody erstwhile they’re accidentally released, but he didn’t correct the grounds either.

Asked by reporters if he had lied erstwhile he told the legislature inmates were instantly reapprehended, Kerzner sidestepped.

“The constabulary were notified,” he responded. “I don’t nonstop immoderate constabulary service. We cognize that the immense mostly of group were re-apprehended almost instantaneously.”

“If you travel and you fundamentally springiness an reply that is untrue, you travel backmost successful here, and you say, ‘I mispoke.’ You could correct your record,” Fraser said.

“Deliberate? One 100 per cent, perfectly deliberate because he said it erstwhile successful a question, arsenic soon arsenic possible, but he said (immediately) much than half a twelve times. It’s much than conscionable a throwaway successful a question.”

Fraser said he had “no confidence” successful Kerzner arsenic solicitor general.

“He can’t reply immoderate elemental questions, he won’t reply immoderate elemental questions,” he said. “It’s about nationalist safety. People merit to know. It’s not conscionable about america successful here.”

Kerzner besides claimed inmates had been improperly released nether the Liberals, who were successful powerfulness 8 years ago. His agency did not explain the information they were referring to aliases complete what timeline.

The solicitor wide said a move to integer merchandise documents would amended the issue, arsenic good arsenic hiring much correctional officers and building jails.

He many times told reporters that constabulary were notified and responsible for the adjacent steps.

“I’m not blaming the constabulary astatine all,” Kerzner clarified. “Our constabulary services crossed Ontario person done a phenominal problem.”

Kerzner added he was disappointment by the accidental releases, but refused to prosecute successful immoderate questions about erstwhile he first recovered retired and why he had not addressed the issue.

“I don’t find the improper releases acceptable, I find them very, very bad,” Kerzner told reporters connected Monday.

Last week, officers raided 4 Winds Medicine Lodge astatine 421 King St. E. aft receiving accusation it was allegedly progressive successful the forbidden waste of cannabis and different controlled substances.

During the April 16 raid, constabulary seized a $210,000 worthy of forbidden drugs, including cocaine, meth and related items, on pinch prohibited weapons. Officers besides located 2 operational labs believed to beryllium utilized successful the accumulation of ace cocaine.

“During the search, officers besides located 8 puppies and 2 big dogs believed to beryllium portion of an forbidden canine breeding operation,” constabulary said successful a news merchandise Monday.

“Hamilton Animal Services attended the segment and took custody of the animals to guarantee their well-being.”

Three group – a 40-year-old Hamilton man, a 24-year-old Hamilton female and a 46-year-old man from North York – were arrested and look aggregate charges, including possession for the intent of trafficking, possession of a prohibited limb and proceeds of crime.

The investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone pinch accusation is asked to interaction police.

“I was shouting astatine group because they were stupid about thing having to do pinch waste and acquisition successful a country,” Trump said, adding that he “straightened it out” but “blew my stack astatine these people.”

He declined to place the state but said it had tried to renegotiate a waste and acquisition woody and he “wasn’t happy about it.” The remark drew attraction and immoderate laughter arsenic reporters pressed him for details. NBC White House analogous Garrett Haake first asked about Trump’s sound earlier shifting to Venezuela during the property conference, but Trump refused to explain which state he meant.

The infinitesimal offered a clear look astatine Trump’s governing style: blunt, unfiltered and driven by emotion moreover successful beforehand of cameras.

The Fox Business bombshell

The waste and acquisition outburst was not the only clip Trump’s sound became a talking point. In an quality connected Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria, Trump offered a much striking explanation.

He told Maria Bartiromo his sound was “hoarse” because he had been “screaming astatine Iranians each day” during their question and reply that aired Wednesday.

The speech unfolded connected unrecorded television.

Bartiromo asked whether his sound was hoarse from negotiating pinch China. Trump pivoted. “I’ve been screaming astatine Iranians each day, yes. A small spot of laryngitis because of my scream. I’ve been screaming astatine the Iranians,” Trump said.

Bartiromo pressed further, asking if it was “the Iran leadership” he had been yelling at, but Trump continued. “You cognize why?” he said. “Because that’s the only point they understand. They don’t understand being nice. They understand the measurement I person to do business.” “I dainty each group differently,” Trump added.

The remark stood retired arsenic an unscripted acknowledgment that Trump had been straight engaged successful heated exchanges pinch Iranian activity astatine a clip erstwhile a vulnerable ceasefire betwixt the United States and Iran was already nether strain.

Trump’s health

The attraction connected Trump’s sound has kept his wellness successful nationalist discussion. His explanations underscore ongoing scrutiny of his information amid awesome home and world responsibilities. At 78, Trump became the oldest personification to return the oath of agency erstwhile he began his 2nd word successful January 2025.

Chronic venous insufficiency was disclosed connected July 17, 2025, aft Trump knowledgeable limb swelling that led to vascular testing and ultrasound procedures. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described the information arsenic “benign and common, peculiarly successful individuals complete the property of 70.” Trump’s physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, confirmed the test and emphasized his wide wellness, noting location was nary heavy vein thrombosis aliases arterial complications.

Vice President JD Vance addressed concerns successful August 2025, highlighting Trump’s endurance. “He’s the past personification making telephone calls astatine night, and he’s the first personification who wakes up and the first personification making telephone calls successful the morning,” Vance said.

Additional scrutiny followed successful September 2025 erstwhile attendees astatine a Pentagon 9/11 memorial work observed that Trump’s look appeared droopy connected the correct side, prompting speculation about a stroke. Neither Trump nor the White House confirmed immoderate neurological issues.

There was besides a visible rash connected Trump’s cervix during a White House Medal of Honor ceremonial raised further questions. Barbabella said Trump was utilizing “a very communal cream” arsenic a preventive measure.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said White House doctors told him he was successful “perfect health.” “The White House doctors person conscionable reported that I americium successful ‘PERFECT HEALTH,’ and that I ‘ACED’ (meaning, was correct connected 100% of the questions asked!), for the 3rd consecutive time, my cognitive examination.”