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In limited playing time, Grichuk has gone 2-for-20 with a pair of doubles, one walk and eight strikeouts.

Eric Musselman has found his likely starting center for next season.

A stellarator is difficult to build, but could it be the best way to make fusion energy work?

Thursday will mark the 10th time the Jets have had more than one pick in the first round.

Lakers center Jaxon Hayes secures Slovenian passport, making him eligible to team up with Luka Doncic on Slovenia’s national team and pursue the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

The former Disney Channel star tackled a home invader who tried to break into his estate and held the suspect at gunpoint before police arrived.

The former Disney Channel star tackled a home invader who tried to break into his estate and held the suspect at gunpoint before police arrived.

Real immigration enforcement is the defining issue of the GOP in our time — so the mystery is why any Republican would boost a bill like this.

A six-year-old vanishes without a trace — and the prime suspect is the one person who should’ve protected her. In this gut-punch episode of Forgotten Fugitives, Jon Leiberman sits down with Ava Grace’s father, who’s spent nearly a decade chasing whispers, dead ends, and chilling clues. Allegations of aliases, off-the-grid living, and a mother who...

It's been a long seven seasons.

Last week Joe Rogan welcomed Spencer Pratt to his podcast with a endorsement. “What’s going on … Mr. Mayor,” he said with a smile. In another world, I’d laugh at the political anointment of a crystals-obsessed reality-show villain who once shared the nickname “Speidi” with his plastic-surgery-loving wife, Heidi. But in 2026, I find myself...

Bluegrass musician Billy Strings revealed that he broke his leg in a "dumb a--" accident just before the encore at his sold-out concert in Virginia on Saturday — and is postponing several shows while he recovers.

As Lakers coach JJ Redick addressed his team inside their locker room after Saturday’s Game 1 win over the Rockets, the focus was already turning to Tuesday’s Game 2 of the best-of-seven first round playoff series.

USS Ford Carrier Returns To Mideast After Extensive Fire Repairs

Over the weekend it was confirmed by Pentagon statements that the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group has belatedly redeployed to the Middle East after a month in port for repairs following a fire aboard the ship.

The world's largest aircraft carrier returned to operations after what's been officially described as a blaze in its laundry area, which headlines have presented as accidental. The incident injured sailors and forced significant maintenance work, and ever since it happened on March 12, there's been an avalanche of public speculation that Iranian forces my have hit it in a missile or drone attack.

US Navy image

However, US and military officials have repeatedly rejected that the Ford was damaged as a result of Iranian attack, as Tehran has claimed.

The carrier is rejoining an expanding US military buildup in the region - with the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group already deployed, and the USS George H.W. Bush expected to soon join, which would bring the number of US carriers in the Middle East to three.

By comparison, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was supported by a total of five US Navy aircraft carriers, with some in the Persian Gulf and some in the Mediterranean.

The Ford had been operating in the eastern Mediterranean when the US and Israel launched military operations against Iran. While transiting the Red Sea last month, a fire allegedly broke out in the ship's main laundry facility, triggering a major damage-control response and forcing the vessel to divert for repairs.

After completing maintenance, the bulk of which was done at the Croatian port town and Split, the carrier has returned to active duty.

Before earlier this year returning to the Middle East, the Ford operated in the Caribbean, including missions targeting suspected drug trafficking, and it was heavily involved in the controversial US operation against Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

As a reminder on the Bush carrier's route:

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 USS GEORGE HW BUSH CARRIER GROUP TAKES LONG ROUTE TO MIDDLE EAST TO AVOID BAB AL MANDAB STRAIT AND HOUTHIS

Source: USNI pic.twitter.com/opTeCA6Nut

— Maine (@TheMaineWonk) April 13, 2026

During its extended deployment, the carrier has also been subjecting of widespread reports of technical problems, including plumbing failures that caused sewage system backups, adding to the overall strain of its lengthy, extended deployment.

Tyler Durden Mon, 04/20/2026 - 18:50

The restaurant’s culinary team prides itself on crafting dishes with fresh, hyper-local ingredients, highlighting herbs and vegetables plucked straight from the hotel’s own garden.

If you think this is odd, get in line.

Former USC Trojan and Los Angeles Raiders star Rod Martin passed away at the age of 72.

There was nothing to suggest he was stressed or concerned about the first-round series against the Hawks, or about those Finals-or-bust expectations hovering over the playoffs.

Chief Justice Roberts Faces Two Strikes After New Leak Rocks The Court

Authored by Jonathan Turley,

The legendary baseball player and manager Ted Williams once wrote a letter to the Angels outfielder Jay Johnstone on improving his hitting. Among his pieces of advice was that “with two strikes, you simply have to protect the plate.”

Williams’s advice on not striking out came to mind this week when another leak of confidential information rocked the Supreme Court. (The prior leak of the Dobbs decision went unsolved).

For Chief Justice John Roberts, the message is clear: it is a time like this when you have to protect the plate.

Roberts, of course, is famous for his own baseball analogies. In his confirmation, he declared that “judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules. They apply them…Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire.”

Yet, justices do make rules not only in new precedent, but in the operation of the court system. Those rules are being broken.

In the same week as the new leak, Justice Sonia Sotomayor attacked her colleague Brett Kavanaugh as essentially an out-of-touch prig who had never even met an hourly wage worker.

It was an unfair insult and a departure from the Court’s long-standing rules of civility.

(Sotomayor later apologized).

Additionally, a forthcoming book by Mollie Hemingway on Justice Samuel Alito contains an embarrassing account of how Justice Elena Kagan allegedly screamed at Justice Stephen Breyer so loudly before the Dobbs opinion that the “wall was shaking.”

(The book suggests that Kagan was upset with Breyer agreeing to spur along the dissents to get out the final opinions in light of rising threats against conservative colleagues after the leak).

For an institution that prides itself on its confidentiality and insularity, the Court is looking increasingly porous and partisan in these leaks. 

Worse yet, people are indeed coming to the Court “to see the umpires.”

The most recent leak was published by the New York Times, which was given internal memos from various Supreme Court justices on the use of what is known as the “shadow docket” to issue rulings without oral arguments.

Notably, the leaks occurred after a controversial speech by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson at Yale Law School in which she denounced the use of the shadow docket by her conservative colleagues to release decisions that were sometimes “utterly irrational.”

The memos reveal the concern of the justices that the Environmental Protection Agency was effectively gaming the system, imposing unlawful regulatory burdens on electric utilities despite a countervailing earlier ruling in Michigan v. EPA.

Chief Justice Roberts noted that the EPA was using the ongoing litigation to force utilities to spend billions of dollars to comply with the new regulations: “In other words the absence of stay allowed the agency to effectively implement an important program we held to be contrary to law.”

The controversy over the use of the shadow docket is immaterial to this story. The most immediate concern for Roberts should be that this is strike two: another leak from within the Court that was clearly designed to wound some of its members.

Unlike the Dobbs leak (which appeared to be an effort to influence the final opinion), this is a leak about a decade-old case. It had a purely malicious purpose to embarrass or disrupt the Court.

The question, again, is the identity of the culprit. There is no reason to assume that the same person was involved in both leaks. Rather, the leaks appear to reflect a deteriorating culture at the Court.

After the Dobbs leak, Chief Justice Roberts launched a fruitless investigation through the federal marshals to find the responsible person. The use of the marshals as the lead investigators (rather than the FBI) was criticized at the time. Roberts may have been sensitive to an executive-branch agency rooting around in the highest court of a sister branch.

The result was the worst possible outcome. The culprit succeeded in both leaking the opinion and evading any accountability.

The fact is that the Court’s culture and institutional identity have always been its greatest protection of confidentiality. In a city that floats on a rolling sea of leaks, the Court was an island of integrity and civility. The “umpires” could call balls and strikes without playing the leak game.

That culture is fast becoming nothing but a relic in the wake of yet another major leak. For the future of the Court and the faith of the public, Roberts has to set his reservations aside and bring in the FBI to find the culprit. Most importantly, he has to guarantee total transparency in allowing the public to see the results wherever they may lead. In other words, with two strikes, Roberts needs to protect the plate.

Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution

Tyler Durden Mon, 04/20/2026 - 18:25

The grandson of legendary Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski was arrested for DWI after being accused of fatally striking a 15-year-old with his vehicle on Saturday night.