šŸ”µ Hulk Hogan Dies

Good morning. It’s Thursday, July 24.

Hulk Hogan, pro-wrestling’s 12-time world champion and TV personality, who helped transform the WWE into the behemoth it became, has reportedly died at age 71, according to TMZ.

TMZ said on Thursday, July 24 that medics were sent to Hogan’s home in Flo srida after he reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest. The outlet said he was taken out on a stretcher.

Hogan, the boastful wrestling icon, film and reality TV star, was a two-time inductee into the WWE Hall of Fame. He was first inducted in 2005 by his friend Sylvester Stallone, then in 2020 as part of a wrestling team. At 6′ 6,ā€ or 6′ 7,ā€ or maybe 6′ 8″ — he loved tall tales — and weighing more than 300 pounds, Hogan was anointed ā€œWrestling’s Top Bananaā€ in a 1985 Sports Illustrated cover story spotlighting both him and ā€œMat Mania!ā€

 
 

House Republicans are launching their own select subcommittee around the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The effort, which will be led by Rep. Barry Loudermilk, has been stalled for months over disagreement around its jurisdiction. But after the White House intervened, Loudermilk was granted power as its chair to issue subpoenas to compel testimony or information, he said.

Although the focus of the probe was not immediately clear, the Georgia Republican told reporters Wednesday that the panel would review security and intelligence failures and request materials that weren’t disclosed by the Democratic-led Jan. 6 committee from the 117th Congress. Judiciary Committee staff already started some of the work, he added.

Ghislaine Maxwell is assembling ā€œnew evidenceā€ to present to the feds when she meets with them this week, her brother told The Post.

Jeffrey Epstein’s madam never gave her version of events to federal prosecutors before her 2021 trial, which resulted in a 20-year sentence for recruiting women and underage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse. She also never testified in her own defense.

ā€œShe will be putting before that court material new evidence that was not available to the defense at her 2021 trial, which would have had a significant impact on its outcome,ā€ Ian Maxwell told The Post in an email Wednesday.

President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) putting an end to birthright citizenship faced another legal setback after a federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled it to be unconstitutional.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco affirmed a lower court’s decision blocking the nationwide enforcement of the EO, which would deny citizenship to babies born to people illegally or temporarily in the U.S.

A three-judge panel ruled against Trump’s plan in a 2-1 vote, keeping a decision first made by U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle in place.

Attorney General Pam Bondi abruptly canceled her scheduled Wednesday appearance at CPAC’s anti-trafficking summit in Washington, D.C., citing her recovery from a health issue.

Bondi was expected to speak at CPAC’s Summit Against Human Trafficking when it was revealed she could not make her scheduled appearance.

ā€œI do have a note from the attorney general, from Attorney General Pam Bondi, that I wanted to share,ā€ Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti told attendees.

U.S. President Donald Trump will visit the Federal Reserve on Thursday, the White House said, escalating his pressure campaign against Chairman Jerome Powell.

This is the first time in nearly two decades that an American president will be making an official trip to the central bank.

American presidents have traditionally respected the independence of the Fed, which is insulated both in law and in practice from the political whims of elected officials.

All 48 people aboard an Antonov An-24 passenger plane that crashed in Russia’s Far East on Thursday were killed, regional authorities said, while police investigators announced they had launched a criminal probe into possible violations of air safety rules.

The Angara Airlines flight lost contact with ground dispatchers around 1 p.m. local time while flying several kilometers from the airport in the town of Tynda. The plane had originated in Khabarovsk, made a stop in Blagoveshchensk and was en route to Tynda. Among those on board were six crew members.

Emergency officials said the aircraft did not issue a distress signal or report any technical issues before it disappeared from radar. Rescue teams later located the charred wreckage approximately 16 kilometers (10 miles) from Tynda, a town of less than 30,000 people.

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows.

The U.S. was once among only a few developed countries with a rate that ensured each generation had enough children to replace itself — about 2.1 kids per woman. But it has been sliding in America for close to two decades as more women are waiting longer to have children or never taking that step at all.

The new statistic is on par with fertility rates in western European countries, according to World Bank data.

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