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A Georgia high school athlete drowned over the weekend in Columbia County

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• Elijah Lemeuble, 17, died at Wildwood Park on Saturday, April 11, authorities said

• Lemeuble played soccer and ran track at Grovetown High School near Augusta, Ga.

A Georgia community is mourning the death of a rising high school athlete who died last weekend at an area park.Elijah Lemeuble, 17, drowned at Wildwood Park in Columbia County, Ga. on Saturday, April 11, according to local affiliatesWRDWandWFXG.Authorities were called to the park, which includes Clarks Hill Lake, for a possible drowning at approximately 7:46 p.m., the stations reported. A dive team recovered Lemeuble’s body less than an hour later.

Now, those at Grovetown High School are remembering the soccer and track star who was “loved by everyone who knew him.”

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“With heavy hearts, we remember Elijah Lemeuble, a young man who meant so much to so many,” Grovetown High Athletics said in a statement on social media. “He will always be a part of the Grovetown family, and he will be dearly missed. Forever a Warrior.”

AGoFundMeestablished to help with his funeral expenses honored the “great athlete” who held middle school records and was on his way to breaking records at his high school.“His kindness, laughter and spirit touched so many lives in our community,” organizer Amare Pryce wrote. “Now, his family is facing unimaginable grief and the many challenges that come with such a sudden loss.”The high school’s soccer team is set to hold a dedication for Lemeuble on the evening of Tuesday, April 14 at the school’s stadium.

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MOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Russia is ready to increase energy supplies to China ahead of an expected visit by ‌President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies quoted Foreign Minister ‌Sergei Lavrov as saying on Wednesday at a news conference in Beijing.

Russia's President Putin holds talks via video link with China's President Xi

The agencies quoted ​Lavrov as saying that the visit would take place in the first half of the year, while the Vedomosti newspaper cited sources as saying it would be during the week beginning May 18.

President Xi ‌Jinping met Lavrov on ⁠Wednesday, assuring Moscow of China's friendship and saying that China and Russia must trust and support each ⁠other, deepen cooperation, and defend each other's interests.

U.S. President Donald Trump is also scheduled to meet Xi during his first visit to China ​in ​eight years on May 14 and ​15.

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Lavrov told the news ‌conference that Russia was ready to help China and other countries affected by the Middle East crisis with energy supplies.

"Russia can, of course, make up for the resource shortfall facing both China and other countries that are interested in working with us on an ‌equal and mutually beneficial basis," Lavrov ​told the news conference in China.

Lavrov also ​said that Russia and ​China had all the necessary means to avoid reliance ‌on what he described as ​U.S. efforts to ​disrupt global energy markets through conflict in the Middle East.

"Thank God, China and Russia have every capability, including those already ​in use, reserve capacity, ‌and planned capacity, to avoid depending on such aggressive ​gambits, which undermine the global economy," he said.

(Writing by ​Gleb Bryanski; Editing by Mark Potter)

Malcolm in the Middlefaced several recastingsin its four-part revival.

After Hulu picked up a revival series forMalcolm in the Middle, it was confirmed thatErik Per Sullivanwould be recast, withCaleb Ellsworth-Clarktaking over the role of Dewey.

The rest of the cast — includingFrankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Jane Kaczmarek, Christopher MastersonandJustin Berfield— reprised their respective characters. In addition to the main cast,Kiana Madeira, Anthony Timpano, Vaughan MurraeandKeeley Karstenwere cast in key roles as well.

"25 years since we premiered Malcolm in the Middle. I'm so excited... that I may have peed just a little bit,” Cranston, 70, and Kaczmarek said in a December 2024 announcement post. "What a delight that I get to yell at that kid again! We're very, very excited about coming back together and seeing what this family has been up to."

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The revival was written byLinwood Boomer, who created the original series. It chronicled Malcolm (Muniz) and his daughter as they are “drawn into the family’s chaos when Hal (Cranston) and Lois (Kaczmarek) demand his presence for their 40th wedding anniversary party,” according to a press release.

It was later revealed that Per Sullivan got a hefty offer to return for theMalcolm in the Middlerevival, buthe ultimately said no.

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Per Sullivan's onscreen mom, Kaczmarek, was asked about his absence from the upcoming four-part special, telling The Guardian in April 2026 that the retired actor is “studying Dickens and is an incredible student."

"They offered him buckets of money to come back, and he just said, ‘No, thank you,'" she added.

Kaczmarek previously defended Per Sullivan's decision to stay out of the spotlight.

“I admire it because so many people think being in show business is the greatest thing in the world. It’s not for everyone," she said in a 2024 interview about how Per Sullivan is a student at “a very prestigious American university.”

Keep scrolling for everyMalcolm in the Middle: Life's Still Unfaircharacter that was recast:

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Dewey

Caleb Ellsworth-Clark took over the role of Dewey after Erik Per Sullivan chose not to return.

Jamie

After brothers Lukas and James Rodriguez portrayed Jamie in the OG show, Anthony Timpano was cast for the revival.

Messages that Lynette Hooker sent to a friend in 2024 following her temporary split with husband Brian Hooker indicate she had concerns about him and their life at sea.

The couple was sailing in the Bahamas earlier this month whenshe disappearedduring anighttime boat ride. Brian Hooker was detained andquestioned by policebut laterreleased.

The messages from January to February of 2024 provide some insight into the relationship between the couple.

"I guess it was too much closeness. We decided to call it quits. I'm not going back," Lynette Hooker wrote in messages obtained exclusively by CBS News.

She told Marnee Stevenson, a fellow boater and friend, "We were married 21 years. Our marriage lasted 6 weeks cruising."

Marnee and Blaine Stevenson met the Hookers in 2023 while sailing through Florida.

"We were boating with them for a while," Blaine Stevenson said.

Lynette Hooker, who previously lived in Michigan, told Marnee she had "quit my awesome career, sold my house and gave away everything I own to cruise."

At the time, she left Brian to stay with her mother in Florida, according to the messages.

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When asked about whether the two could reconcile, Hooker told her friend, "It was real bad. I can't be out there with him."

A month later, in late February 2024, the messages indicate Lynette and Brian had reconciled.

Marnee Stevenson messaged her on social media: "Looks like things are on the up and up."

Lynette replied with heart emojis and a thumbs up.

Brian Hooker reported his wife missing on Sunday, April 5, saying she had been swept away from a dingy which lost power the night before, hampering his ability to seek help.

Attorney Terrel Butler, who represents Brian Hooker in a criminal investigation by the Bahamian Royal Police Force, has consistently said he denies any wrongdoing, is heartbroken by the incident and wanted to be released from custody so he can search for his wife.

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Justin Sun, among the largest investors in the Trump family’s primary crypto company, claims the company is misleading investors. It’s the most prominent instance yet of a crypto insider aligned with President Donald Trump calling out his family’s crypto dealings, which Democrats have said benefit from the president’s authority.

Sunday on X, Sun, a billionaire who is among the most recognizable figures in the crypto industry, accused the Trump group, World Liberty Financial, of setting up a system that grants company officials unilateral power over user accounts. That includes the ability to freeze them.

Sun alleges that his account has been subject to a freeze since September and that he has not been able to sell his holdings. According to analysis by the blockchain tracking group Bubblemaps, the value of the holdings Sun has allegedly been unable to move has declined by more than $80 million, to about $43 million. Sun has said he spent at least $75 million on World Liberty tokens, at one point becoming its largest investor.

“I have always been an ardent supporter of President Trump and his crypto friendly policy,” Sun wrote. However, he said, “this is the opposite of decentralization. This is a trap door marketed as an open door. I denounce the ongoing token scandals by the bad actors at WLFI.”

World Liberty responded by accusing Sun on social media of engaging in misconduct himself that warranted the freeze and seeming to threaten a lawsuit. TheSecurities and Exchange Commission charged Sunin 2023 with fraud over crypto trades and illicit promotion. In March, the case was dismissed after he agreed to pay a $10 million fine.

“We have the contracts. We have the evidence. We have the truth,”World Liberty wrote on X. “See you in court pal.”

A representative for World Liberty referred NBC News to the comments on itsX account.

World Liberty, which was co-founded by Trump’s three sons andlists Trump as a co-founder emeritus, was launched in 2024 in the heat of Trump’s third presidential campaign. Trump was removed from any official positions at World Liberty upon taking office. The White House has said he is not involved in managing his family’s crypto holdings.

World Liberty promised to become a world leader in the crypto and decentralized finance space, and Eric Trump remains a prominent figure in the crypto world. This summer, he will be the keynote speaker at the Bitcoin 2026 conference.

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Dozens of crypto platforms have launched in recent years, all touting their own tokens, each of which is governed by the companies’ own rules. Many offer certain assurances around security and how the company’s money will be handled. Some have risen in value, but broadly the values of most tokens have declined along with the broader crypto market.

The value of World Liberty’s primary token, known as WLFI, has lost 74% of its value since August, and as of Monday it was trading at around 8 cents. However, its stablecoin, USD1, ranks among the 10 most heavily used stablecoins, which are crypto tokens designed to be traded at par with one U.S. dollar. The World Liberty stablecoins have enjoyed prominence thanks to prominent partnerships and their availability on large exchanges like Binance and Kraken.

Sun’s comments come amid broader investor concern about World Liberty’s finances. In February, Blockchain datafirst reported by CoinDeskshows, World Liberty borrowed $75 million from another crypto group, Dolomite, and used 5% of the entire supply of WLFI as collateral. Thatprompted fears on social mediaabout whether World Liberty can make good on the loan if WLFI’s value continues to decline.

World Libertysaid Thursday on Xthat it is “nowhere near liquidation,” adding it would simply supply more collateral if the price declined any further.It said Fridaythat it had already repaid $25 million.

Representatives for Sun and Dolomite did not respond to requests for comment.

Austin Campbell, a crypto consultant and instructor at New York University, said concerns about the loan arrangement appear justified.

“If you took this conduct and translated it to traditional markets, you would have some problems,” he said.

A representative for the SEC did not respond to a request for comment. Last year, House Democratsdevoted an entire weekto calling out the Trump family’s crypto activities, accusing Trump of “profiting off the Presidency.” The White House denied any wrongdoing.

World Liberty’sgoverning documentsays a Trump family-owned company has the rights to 75% of revenues from token sales after operating expenses are deducted. On his 2025 financial disclosure form, Trump listed more than $57 million in income from World Liberty. A representative for the Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment. The White House has previously issued blanket denials of any conflicts of interest.

Shortly before his inauguration in January 2025, Trump used a separate corporate entity to launch another crypto token known as TRUMP. Like WLFI’s, the value of TRUMP has also plummeted, and today it trades at around $2.81, compared with as much as $45 around the time it launched. A coin Melania Trump launched around the same time has taken a similar trajectory. She has denied direct involvement in managing the coin.

LONDON, April 14 (Reuters) - Britain's national security is "in peril" because of political complacency and under-investment in defence, former NATO chief George Robertson will say on Tuesday, in a rare ‌public rebuke of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's handling of military spending.

Robertson, who helped draft a ‌Strategic Defence Review commissioned by Starmer when he came to power in 2024, is expected to say in a lecture that ​Britain has become increasingly exposed to external threats.

Robertson, who served in the 1990s as defence secretary from Starmer's Labour Party, told the Financial Times there was a gap between the prime minister's rhetoric and action on defence, and Starmer was "not willing to make the necessary investment".

In his lecture, to be delivered later on Tuesday ‌in Salisbury, southern England, he is ⁠expected to call out finance minister Rachel Reeves for devoting "only 40 words" to defence in a budget speech last autumn and not mentioning it at all in ⁠an update last month, the FT said.

"Britain's national security and safety is in peril," he is due to say, according to an excerpt reported by the FT and the BBC. "We are under-prepared. We are under-insured. We are ​under attack. ​We are not safe."

'CORROSIVE COMPLACENCY'

Robertson's office did not immediately ​respond to a request for comment. There ‌was no immediate response from Starmer's office.

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Starmer has blamed under-investment in the military on 14 years of rule by the rival Conservative Party, and has promised the largest sustained rise in defence spending since the Cold War, to reach 3% of national output in the next parliament.

The government has said it would publish a 10-year defence investment plan soon, aimed at meeting the ambitions set out in the 2024 ‌review co-written by Robertson, which called for a shift towards ​drones, digital warfare and data-driven combat systems reflecting lessons drawn ​from the war in Ukraine.

Starmer said last ​week that the war in Iran must be a turning point for Britain, pledging ‌to strengthen the economy and military to ​cope with a more "volatile and ​dangerous" world.

But Robertson will accuse Britain's political leadership of a "corrosive complacency" towards defence and describe decisions made by "non-military experts in the Treasury" as "vandalism".

"We cannot defend Britain with an ever-expanding welfare budget," ​he is expected to say.

He will ‌say the security outlook has deteriorated sharply following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heightened tensions ​in the Middle East, calling it one of the most dangerous periods in decades.

(Reporting ​by Sam TabahritiEditing by Elizabeth Piper and Peter Graff)

Sunday is the final day of theNBA regular season,and here's a full listing of all the playoff and postseason matchups that have been decided.

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There are 10 teams that are locked into specific seeds in the Eastern and Western Conferences, there are 10 other teams that know their seasons will end on Sunday and 10 more still have some level of uncertainty going into the final day of the six-month grind that precedes the NBA postseason.

By the end of Sunday, four first-round series matchups — those starting next weekend — will be known, as will the first four play-in tournament matchups that will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“We're just excited to be in this situation,” said Atlanta coach Quin Snyder, whose Hawks are playoff-bound — but don't know if they'll be the No. 5 or No. 6 seed in the East, so they obviously don't know their first-round matchup either.

“Whoever we play is going to be really good," Snyder said. “It's hard to even try to figure that out. It's possible that certain teams want to play us. ... We don't know what's going to happen. It's hard to predict all these games that are going on. Wherever it falls is how it falls.”

No team needs to win on Sunday to extend its season. There are 10 teams eliminated from postseason contention who all know Game 82 is the end of the road. But for the other 20 teams, there will be an 83rd game, either in the play-in this coming week or in the playoffs that start next weekend.

That doesn't mean those 20 teams all have nothing to play for Sunday. There are seeds to grab, and in some cases, a team could essentially manipulate how their side of the bracket sorts itself out. If San Antonio beats Denver, for example, the Spurs would assure themselves of not having to face Oklahoma City or the Nuggets until the Western Conference finals.

A Nuggets loss would mean LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers — provided they beat Utah on Sunday — would finish as the West's No. 3 seed.

“I’m sure everybody wants to play us," Lakers coach J.J. Redick said. "Let’s get that out there — everybody wants to play us. There are probably teams that are in a position where they can start looking forward to potential second-round matchups as well.”

The breakdown

— Seeds clinched: Detroit (East 1), Oklahoma City (West 1), Boston (East 2), San Antonio (West 2), New York (East 3), Cleveland (East 4), Houston (West 5), Minnesota (West 6), Phoenix (West 7 for play-in), Golden State (West 10 for play-in).

— Playoff-bound, seed still TBA: Denver (3 or 4 in West), Los Angeles Lakers (3 or 4 in West), Atlanta (5 or 6 in East).

— Playoff or play-in bound: Toronto, Orlando, Philadelphia.

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— Play-in bound, seed still TBA: Los Angeles Clippers, Portland, Charlotte, Miami.

— Season ends Sunday: Milwaukee, Chicago, New Orleans, Memphis, Dallas, Sacramento, Utah, Brooklyn, Indiana, Washington.

Stat races

All the major statistical titles have been decided, barring the most mathematically improbable events of all-time happening on Sunday.

— Scoring: Luka Doncic of the Lakers (33.5 per game) will win, unless something happens like Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scoring 194 points on Sunday.

— Rebounding: Nikola Jokic of the Nuggets (12.9 per game) will win, unless something happens like New York's Karl-Anthony Towns grabbing at least 95 rebounds on Sunday.

— Assists: Jokic (10.9 per game) will win. unless something happens like Detroit's Cade Cunningham getting at least 77 assists on Sunday.

— Blocked shots: Victor Wembanyama of the Spurs (3.1 per game) will win, unless something happens like Oklahoma City's Chet Holmgren blocking at least 85 shots on Sunday.

(So, yes, it's safe to assume those races have been decided.)

Doncic won't play Sunday for the Lakers, meaning he'll fall short of the65-game rule for award eligibility,and Jokic needs to play Sunday to hit that number. That means it's actually possible the NBA scoring, rebound and assist champions will all be ineligible to appear on the ballots that will decide the All-NBA teams, MVP and other major awards.

Draft odds update

The teams with the three worst records are set: Washington will be worst, with Indiana and Brooklyn second- and third-worst in some order. That means those three teams will have the best odds — 14% each — of winning the No. 1 pick in next month's draft lottery.

And Washington can't finish lower than fifth in the lottery.

Utah and Sacramento would both see draft-lottery benefits from losses on Sunday — especially the Jazz, who could assure themselves of keeping a pick that would be guaranteed to be in the top eight.

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