Posts

Wardlow fatally shot 82-year-old Carl Cole during a robbery at the man’s home in Cason, Texas, in June 1993. On Wednesday night, the 45-year-old was executed after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant a stay despite pleas from Wardlow’s friends and loved ones, as well as two of the jurors who had condemned him to death almost three decades ago. The Associated Press reported that Wardlow didn’t make a last statement while strapped to the gurney in the death chamber at the state state penitentiary in Huntsville....

RELATED: BioMutant: Every Playable Breed, Ranked The best weapon bases in Biomutant to create the strongest Shotguns from are the ones that grant the player the most potential to eradicate nearby foes. This can be gleaned from higher than average base fire rates, magazine sizes, and reload speeds. Be sure to select a Shotgun base depending on these factors, as there are some that lack these qualities and would be a waste of resources to upgrade....

President Joe Biden revamped the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot Initiative, which he led during his last year as vice president under the Barack Obama administration. Nearly 2 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed and more than 600,000 deaths are expected in 2022. But with renewed investment in cancer prevention, detection, and treatment, the administration said it’s possible to reduce cancer deaths by at least half in the next two decades....

On the most consequential foreign policy issue that the Biden administration is likely to face—how to deal with the People’s Republic of China—the new Democratic president seems ready to follow the path set out by his Republican predecessor. “Let me just say that I believe that President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China,” said Antony Blinken, Biden’s secretary of state, during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in January....

Biden traveled to the state’s Boulder County to look at the damage. He met with Governor Jared Polis and local elected officials. The president also met with area residents impacted by the fire. Biden again stated he would offer resources to help those affected by the state’s most damaging fire on record. “I can’t imagine what’s it’s like to be here in this neighborhood and see winds whipping up to 100 miles an hour and see flames approaching,” Biden said....

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed on Friday that Biden would not honor Trump’s claim of executive privilege to block the release of certain White House records to the January 6 House Select Committee. In an official email statement, Trump decried the move and suggested that Biden would regret the decision, according to a report from Mediaite. His statement also references numerous false or unsubstantiated claims surrounding Biden and the 2020 presidential election....

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting a major content update on Thursday, April 23, which will include appearances by some new island visitors. After downloading the new update, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players can look forward to visits from Leif, who will appear in the plaza and sell specialty plants from his Garden Shop, along with Jolly Redd, who appears in a ship on the coast. RELATED: Animal Crossing: New Horizons Trick Gives Players Unbreakable Tools...

Did social isolation benefit the making of Celebrity Show-Off? We’ve pushed the bounds of creativity, like how can we create something out of nothing? In this case, the “nothing” was not really being able to leave our homes. For the celebrity guests, it’s a fun challenge to see what you can create when all you have is yourself and your home. Considering the protests and the pandemic, was it difficult to film the show right now?...

One of these deals, of course, was Time Warner’s proposed merger with Turner Broadcasting to create the world’s biggest media company. Because details have been leaking for a month, this deal was about as surprising as Sports Illustrated putting a pneumatic woman on its cover in February. The other deal was AT&T’s shocking announcement that it would voluntarily split into three separate companies. Time Warner and AT&T expounded endlessly on their visions....

Before the 2018-19 season, the conference decided to expand its league schedule to 20 games per team. Coincidentally, the league experienced an ascent in the level of competition last year that has accelerated in 2019-20. And thus are the teams in this league confronted by a series of demanding games that tax the ability of teams to recover and improve. Everyone’s battling merely to survive the next game. “Our league is the worst because our league is the best,” Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said after absorbing a brutal defeat at Purdue last month....

A new report suggests Sting may not be used at all at Summerslam, despite being in town for the Summerslam Experience signing. PWInsider noted all of the ideas that made their way online, including the tag matches talked about, were in fact speculation as expected. They said as late as this afternoon WWE had no plans of featuring him on the card. As noted, WWE has been removing all references to Hulk Hogan, including pulling all merchandise from WWEShop....

Regulation changes for the 2017 season have been brought in with the remit of making cars five seconds a lap faster and the timesheets were certainly given a hammering in the two pre-season tests in Barcelona. To find out exactly what the rule changes mean for each team, Omnisport caught up with two of three-time constructors’ champions Mercedes’ technical bosses to get the inside line. Andy Cowell, managing director of Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains, and Aldo Costa, engineering director of Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, have led the Silver Arrows’ dominance of the hybrid era, so will it be a fourth title in succession for the Brackley squad?...

RELATED: Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting Eastward Like any major release, Eastward is not without faults though. It is relatively bug-free, which is a huge win for the game. In that sense, there is nothing truly detrimental about the game. Still, it would be nice to see the developers fix the following issues with some future patches to make this great game even better. 8 Add Co-Op The core gameplay hook of Eastward allows players to switch back and forth between John and Sam....

In this week’s roundup of gaming news, The Sinking City developer has issued a DMCA takedown request against its own game due to, what is essentially, corporate-level piracy. A new insider report indicates a new Nintendo Switch model may enter production later on this year. Epic Games acquires the Fall Guys developer, while Apple is once again under investigation for “anti-competitive behavior” in the UK. Take-Two Interactive’s CEO believes consumers are “ready” for $70 games....

Cincinnati needed to win to clinch the AFC North a year after finishing in the cellar of the division and posting the fifth-worst record in the NFL. The Bengals rallied, outscoring Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs 17-3 in the second half. The final three came on a walk-off field goal. Kansas City was up big again in Sunday’s AFC championship game. It was ahead 21-3 at one point in the first half and it took a 21-10 lead into the second half....

Based on the struggles that Sony has continued to face in regard to producing enough consoles to meet demand, it’s remarkable to think that most eventual PS5 owners will never know the state in which it launched. From a software and features perspective, though, the latest PlayStation console is in a much stronger position than when it first hit store shelves in 2020. While highly requested features such as folders and custom themes are still missing from the PS5, it’s worth taking a look back on how the console has already evolved....

The future Messis will flock to Chinese Super League The Hammers are set to let Simone Zaza return to Juventus and have been associated with the struggling Manchester United starlet, who has found game time hard to come by at Old Trafford. The Premier League relegation battlers have also been linked to a host of other names when the transfer window opens, including Patrice Evra and Jermain Defoe. However, Bilic says a lot of the news is made up by agents hawking their clients about to clubs and the media, confessing that he has grown weary of the process....

In a series of posts on Instagram on Tuesday morning, Brady revealed his spell in Massachusetts had come to an end after 20 seasons, six Super Bowl titles and a total of three MVP crowns—tied with Jim Brown, Brett Favre and Johnny Unitas for second-most all time in the NFL behind Peyton Manning. Brady’s final act as a Patriot was an intercepted pass in the 20-13 home defeat against the Tennessee Titans in last season’s AFC Divisional Round, but nothing can overshadow his achievements....

The quarterback hadn’t been practicing all week with what the team described as a knee injury. If New England is going to be without its star quarterback, then Sunday’s game against the Jets will be dramatically different. So reporters had to ask Belichick about Brady’s injury status, and it led to a fun exchange on Friday. MORE: Week 12 NFL picks straight up REPORTER: Do you expect Tom Brady to play this weekend?...

“Yesterday, David Koch, of the zillionaire Koch brothers, died of prostate cancer. I guess I’m going to have to reevaluate my low opinion of prostate cancer,” Maher joked in front of a laughing audience. The late-night show host remarked that he understands his jokes “seem harsh,” and that he would later be “condemned for them on Fox News,” but went on to take aim at the stance Koch took on climate change....