“HIMARS got talent! When used by #UAarmy [Ukrainian Army], it’s more than just a talent,” the ministry tweeted, and included a clip from America’s Got Talent, featuring a HIMARS animation as a performer auditioning in front of the judges. The animated idea and video were created by Twitter user Saint Javelin. “Russia has invaded Ukraine and is causing unspeakable pain to Ukrainian people and I know that America’s Got Talent is one of the biggest stages in the world and I just thought I could have a big impact with my performance,” the animated HIMARS told the judges, adding that its performance will involve attacking Russian forces....

The mixed results, however, did not bode well for the Democrats in the general election, especially after John McCain became the presumptive Republican nominee Tuesday night with the departure of his last GOP rival, Mike Huckabee, from the race. McCain, who was scheduled to meet with George W. Bush in the Rose Garden on Wednesday, quickly took advantage of the Democratic disarray, saying Americans no longer had patience for an “uncivil brawl over the spoils of power....

Sounds like a fairly routine negotiation. Except that for the Bush administration this kind of pragmatic tit-for-tat talking with the enemy has been anything but routine. Indeed, a year ago, when North Korea tested and its vice minister of foreign affairs, Kim Gye Gwan, huffed that “we are a nuclear power,” such a negotiation would have been all but impossible. The hard-liners in the administration still had the upper hand—among them U....

But Lute, who was named this week to be Bush’s new war “czar” for Iraq and Afghanistan, is also just a three-star general, and he’s still on active duty. What this means is that while nominally he’s the president’s man—his title puts him on par with national-security adviser Steven Hadley—militarily he’s still inferior in rank to four-star Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the multinational forces in Iraq....

Goal continues to examine the history of the prestigious youth tournament ever since its inception in 1985 to the current day in a two-part series. After covering the history of the tournament till 2005 in the first part, we look at the hisory post that in our second and final part. History of the FIFA Under-17 World Cup (From 2007): Most successful countries in the history of the competition:

Herman, Ohio State’s offensive coordinator since 2012, accepted the head coaching job at Houston on Tuesday, the latest of Urban Meyer’s offensive coordinators to move up the ranks. What’s the difference? Herman might be Meyer’s best offensive coordinator, and the numbers the last two seasons bear that out. The task for Meyer now is to avoid a drop-off, which happened at Florida when Steve Addazio replaced Dan Mullen in 2009....

The former Three Lions boss has monitored Lallana’s progress since first spotting him in Southampton’s academy ranks. Since then, the talented 28-year-old has enjoyed a meteoric rise which has carried him from League One to the top of the Premier League table. Goal 50: The best footballers of 2016 There was a big-money move to Anfield thrown into the mix, along with 28 senior caps for his country. Hoddle now considers him to be the finest player in the country, with his domestic form being carried over onto the international stage....

Ancelotti was sacked on Thursday following a comprehensive 3-0 defeat to former club Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, the latest chapter in an underwhelming start to the campaign at home and abroad. In announcing the decision, Bayern CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge claimed Ancelotti’s dismissal was due to the team’s performances failing to meet expectations. But Hoeness indicated that dressing-room fractions played a key part in the manager’s downfall. “There were five players against Ancelotti,” Hoeness told Westfalenpost....

Well, compared with when? March 16, 1974, when the first article I quoted was published? Or July 15, 1981, the date of the second? Or October 30, 1983, when the third appeared? The Atlantic alliance has produced anguished hand-wringing since its inception. With a new administration in Washington comes a new season of lament. The Aspen Institute is holding a conference this summer on, what else, the troubled European-American relationship....

During Monday’s episode of her Girls Next Level podcast, which she co-hosts with former Girls Next Door co-star Bridget Marquardt, Madison said her words were often taken out of context. In a confessional during the early days of the series—which ran from 2005 to 2010—Madison, 42, said she gave Marquardt a compliment, but it didn’t sound that way when the episode aired. “I said, ‘Bridget wants to be a Playmate and get her PhD, achieving all there is to achieve in body and mind,’” Madison said to her listeners, as well as Marquardt....

“It’s unfortunate because he has been a big part of the organization—he was very important in the past, but it absolutely had to be done,” HFPA member Gabriel Lerman told Newsweek. “I don’t think anybody will disagree with that.” Berk, 88, who is an eight-term president and 44-year member of the organization, was expelled two days after emailing an article to his fellow members this past Sunday. An HFPA member described the email as a “copy and pasted” text that included an article and commentary from a conservative publication hinting at alleged improprieties on the part of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors....

Orphaned in the jungle when his parents are killed, this “hairless wonder” is taken in by a gorilla family with proper American bourgeois sentiments. “I just want you to be happy,” says surrogate mom Kala (voice by Glenn Close). Even before he falls in love with Jane and discovers he’s a human, Tarzan (Tony Goldwyn) is grappling with his “difference.” That’s the true subject of this multicultural–actually multispecies–fable. As the message is hammered out in one of Phil Collins’s ballads: “Two worlds, one family....

Stanton’s peers — major leagauers, that is, not home run crushers, because he proved he has no peers at that — were every bit as impressed as everyone else watching the show. Defending champion Todd Frazier hit 40 home runs in three rounds, falling 20-13 to Stanton in the final. He was among those who was amazed by Stanton, because seriously, everyone was. Here are the reactions from Frazier and some All-Stars from both leagues....

The 24-year-old amateur astronomer is no stranger to discovering astronomical objects and events, with 80 variable stars, 10 planetary nebula candidates, four pairs of binary stars, and more to his name. But, this marks the first time he has spotted a supernova. Romanov told Newsweek: “For the first time in my life I discovered a supernova which was later confirmed by the spectrum [the light it emits]. “On February 9, 2022, I found a supernova candidate in the images from the CRTS (Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey), in The Great Supernova Hunt project....

www.infoplease.com Information Please’s reference site contains an assortment of searchable almanacs, even one for kids. www.schoolwork.org This site is for seventh grade and higher. If they’re stumped, students can e-mail a librarian. sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick! KidsClick! is a searchable and comprehensive directory of Internet resources for kids, selected by librarians, with notes on reading levels. www.nosweat.com The site consists of Homework Central Jr. for grades 1 through 6, Homework Central for grades 7 and up and Encyclopedia Central for college and above....

So, is Tony Blair going “wobbly” on the war? “Certainly not,” says one top aide. “If there’s a war, we’ll be there.” Yet the real answer is more complicated. In truth, Blair and Bush have always been something of an odd couple. The British prime minister is an intellectual politician and a trained lawyer whose best American friend was once Bill Clinton. The current American president is an anti-intellectual who built his presidential campaign against much of what Clinton stood for....