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President Trump has an army of bootlickers that seems to stretch to the sunset. Many of them creep around on social media and almost certainly legions of them come from bot accounts on X. On Saturday morning, Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Jeffrey Pretti after they gang-tackled him. Essayli was soon getting smacked around on social media by gun rights groups, including the NRA, which has endorsed Trump in all his presidential races. When history looks back at all the cowards, sycophants, apologists, enablers, henchmen and other miscreants that made Trump possible, the bootlickers will have a starring role.

When it comes to improved teams, the girls' basketball team at St. Monica Academy in Montrose has had a big turnaround under first-year coach Vic Karapetian. The team is 15-3 and 10-1 in the Heritage League after going 1-26 in league play the previous two years. AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThere are no seniors on the roster, and three freshmen have been making major contributions. This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. Sign up for the L.A. Times SoCal high school sports newsletter to get scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular.

Jack St. Ivany leaves the bench in the middle of the period, dropping Pittsburgh down to five defenders. Second periodVancouver gets the first power play of the game when Anthony Mantha smacks a guy in the face. The Pens PK takes care of business, no small thanks to a bunch of saves from Skinner. Big time period for the visitors to blow the game open with three goals. That meant the Pens basically went the distance with only five defenders for the balance of the game tonight.

On Friday, MLB Pipeline released their annual preseason ranking of the league’s top 100 prospects. Five Brewers made the cut, all of whom were also named to Baseball America’s Top 100 prospects just a few days earlier. Since I already briefly profiled each prospect when the Baseball America list came out, I won’t repeat myself. While none of those shortstop prospects are exactly alike, all of them are seen as having superstar potential and have (so far) lived up to their billing in the minors. Milwaukee does have a stud defensive shortstop prospect in Cooper Pratt, but he’s a prospect; Winn just won a Gold Glove.

The cast of The Traitors 2026 pictured before the final round table vote of the series BBC/Studio Lambert/Paul ChappellsWarning: This article contains spoilers for the final of The Traitors UK. The Traitors champion Rachel is opening up about her plans for her hefty prize money. During Friday’s dramatic final, Rachel and fellow finalist Stephen made history as the first pair of Traitors to win the UK show, splitting the £95,750 prize money between them as a result. Over the course of the series, Rachel shared her hopes to use any money raised on the show to treat her children, as well as her mum, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s when she was in her 40s and now has dementia. AdvertisementSpeaking to the Daily Mail after the finale aired, she shared: “haven’t spent any of the money yet.

LOADING ERROR LOADINGSometimes, it feels like there’s a battle taking place between “night owls” and “early birds”, sometimes called “larks”. AdvertisementHow many of us are “night owls” or “early birds”? According to Dr Breus, only 15% of us have a natural “early bird”-style chronotype, and roughly the same amount are “night owls”. And while they didn’t use the ‘bear’ term, a 2012 paper found that as much as 60% of the population has a “mixed” chronotype (neither night owls nor early birds). Women are slightly more likely to be “early birds” than men.

Neurodivergent children living in an unforgiving neurotypical world do not need “more resilience”. They need understanding and support much earlier – not just from parents, but from schools, society, and government systems as a whole. AdvertisementAccording to Learning Disability Today, two in five parents of children with SEND are forced to give up work completely. Children would not need to retreat to bedrooms to recover from a world that failed to meet them halfway. AdvertisementIf we truly invested early, fewer children would ever need to cocoon at all.

Here are your Pens Points for this Monday morning... The Pittsburgh Penguins completed their Western Canada swing on Sunday evening, facing off against the Vancouver Canucks. It was a homecoming for rookie forward Ben Kindel, who led the way with two goals as the Penguins won 3-2. Video shows Rust appearing to hit Boeser up high with an extended elbow, an action deemed “dirty” by Vancouver players. The winger has career highs in goals (14) and points (25) in 37 games after Sunday.

Expecting the former Ravens coach to replicate what the New England Patriots or Chicago Bears achieved in Year 1 of their new regimes would be unreasonable. Still, Harbaugh’s track record – just three losing seasons in 18 years – is the stuff of dreams for a Giants franchise tied for the fewest wins since 2017 (44). Harbaugh was the one option this cycle who looked capable of flipping an organization’s culture, even if it required some uncomfortable shifts. Given how set in their ways the Giants have been, the transformation might not take place overnight. But Big Blue has seen sharp play-callers flame out, so inspiring hope was going to necessitate finding someone capable of addressing the very core of the organization.

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The Traitors is coming to the West End stage BBC/Studio Lambert/CodyBurridgeBut now… who’s ready to watch The Traitors on the West End stage? Yes, following on from 2023’s Great British Bake Off musical, it’s been announced that The Traitors is being turned into a new stage play. AdvertisementSet to arrive in London’s West End in 2027, the new play will be written by John Finnemore, whose work includes the TV shows Good Omens and the radio play Cabin Pressure. Claudia Winkleman with the cast of The Traitors 2026 BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge/Matt BurlemAdvertisementStephen Lambert of the TV production company Studio Lambert enthused: “Taking The Traitors from screen to stage is a hugely exciting next step for this much-loved brand. “Partnering with Neal Street Productions, a true theatrical powerhouse, allows us to reimagine the show as a bold and surprising theatrical performance.

Elton John in November 2024 via Associated PressSir Elton John has revealed he took his love of jewellery to strange new heights after undergoing knee surgery a couple of years ago. The music legend underwent a double knee replacement in 2024, and later admitted that he had big plans for the parts that were removed. Advertisement“When I had my kneecaps removed, the left one first and then the right, I asked my surgeon if I could keep the kneecaps, which he was rather startled about,” he said in the short documentary Elton John – Touched By Gold last year. It looks a bit like an old artefact from Egypt.”AdvertisementIn recent years, Sir Elton – who retired from live touring in 2023, just weeks after his headlining performance at Glastonbury – has spoken candidly about a number of health issues he’s been faced with. More recently, he said that he has been left with severely limited vision after contracting an eye infection.

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All six people on board a private jet that crashed during takeoff Sunday evening are presumed dead, the Bangor International Airport in Maine said Monday. The FAA later told CNN it is deferring to the airport about the number of people on board and presumed dead. Emergency crews responded to an incident around 7:45 p.m., Bangor International Airport told CNN. The airport will remain closed until at least 12 p.m. on Wednesday, according to a Facebook post from the airport. Minutes before the crash, controllers and pilots at Bangor airport can be heard talking about low visibility and deicing, though it is not immediately clear who is talking to whom, according to audio obtained from LiveATC.net.