Hot dog-flavored glowing water? Yeah, no. Don’t get tricked by April Fools’ Day fakes! Disgraced former lawyer Alex Murdaugh obtained one other jail sentence. And Iowa and LSU are dealing with off within the largest March Madness rematch we may ask for.
👋 Hey hey! Happy April Fools’ Day! No joke: Laura Davis right here. Hope you’ve been secure from tricksters! Now, right here’s Monday’s information.
But first: Turns out, Maroon 5 was proper. 🕺🎶 At 80 years old, Mick Jagger is proving he is nonetheless acquired the “Moves Like Jagger.”
Fake merchandise abound for April Fools’
Love it or hate it, it is April Fools’ Day! The sooner or later a 12 months you need to belief nobody and query all the things. The roots of April Fools’ Day date again to earlier than the fifteenth century, finally evolving into the modern-day trickster’s vacation for pranking a buddy, member of the family, co-worker − or your prospects. Even although some firms have had April Fools’ pranks backfire, every year, extra pretend merchandise pop as much as try to get some laughs and a focus. How about some sizzling dog-flavored water? A stoner lingo translation app? Maybe you’d moderately sleep inside a banana pores and skin. 🤣 Get in on the joke with these “merchandise.”
Israel ends two-week siege of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital
The Israeli army introduced the completion of its controversial “focused operation” at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday after killing 200 militants and arresting 500 others throughout a weekslong siege that drew outcries from hospital officers and world leaders.
What occurred? Israel mentioned the operation was carried out because of “preliminary and correct” intelligence indicating Hamas militants have been utilizing the hospital campus as a command middle and army headquarters.
On the opposite facet: Calling the occupation a “crime in opposition to humanity,” the Hamas-run Gaza media workplace mentioned Israeli forces killed 400 Palestinians round Shifa, together with a feminine doctor and her son, additionally a doctor, and left the hospital in ruins. 📍 Read extra + the latest updates.
📸 See pictures: Gaza hospital in ruins after Israel siege.
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March Madness must-see: Iowa vs. LSU rematch
One 12 months after Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese despatched growing curiosity in girls’s sports activities into stratospheric territory, they meet once more on Monday. Cover your ears and eyes and put your tender sensibilities apart as a result of Iowa and LSU are about to go at it within the NCAA Tournament. It’s a rematch a 12 months within the making and the largest March Madness recreation in both the boys’s or girls’s match. With epic trash-talking and even higher basketball, final 12 months’s title recreation between LSU and Iowa was watched by practically 13 million folks, making Clark and Reese prompt crossover celebrities. 🏀 Follow our stay updates from the sport.
Alex Murdaugh sentenced in multimillion-dollar fraud spree
With two state jail sentences already on his shoulders, confessed and convicted fraudster Alex Murdaugh walked right into a federal courthouse in Charleston, South Carolina, Monday to obtain yet one more – a hefty federal jail sentence.
Forty-year sentence: Murdaugh, a disbarred lawyer, was sentenced to 480 months in jail in reference to a sweeping decade-plus, multimillion-dollar monetary fraud crime spree that engulfed greater than a rating of victims in South Carolina. This 40-year time period will run concurrently with Murdaugh’s state jail phrases. He is serving a pair of life sentences for the June 2021 murders of his spouse and son, and 27 years for state fraud prices. 👉 Everything that occurred in courtroom.
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