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Onde de choc après le décès de la journaliste de TVA Trois-Rivières Véronique Lévesque

La chroniqueuse culturelle, présentatrice météo de TVA Trois-Rivières et coanimatrice de Rythme FM, Véronique Lévesque, est décédée samedi à l’âge de 29 ans.

Véronique Lévesque est décédée à la suite d’une rupture d’anévrisme survenue le 3 avril dernier, alors qu’elle était enceinte de 35 semaines.

«Le choc que son cerveau a reçu lui a fait faire un takotsubo, un problème qui rend le cœur très défaillant. Son corps et son cerveau ne recevaient alors plus l’oxygène nécessaire. Malgré tout, notre petite fille Lauralie a pu être sauvée par une césarienne d’urgence et le personnel du CHUL et se porte miraculeusement bien aujourd’hui», a annoncé son fiancé, Félix L’Ecuyer, sur Fb.


Véronique Lévesque a été transférée aux soins intensifs où elle est restée dans le coma pendant 17 jours avant de décéder le 20 avril.

«Je laisse une photograph d’elle qui la représente bien: un magnifique rayon de soleil, toujours souriante, fière de son ventre qui la rendait enfin maman, la meilleure maman du monde. C’est extrêmement pénible de devoir dire adieu à la personne la plus gentille, empathique, aimante, généreuse et drôle que je connaisse. […] Je t’aime et je t’aimerai toute ma vie. Veille sur Lauralie et moi mon amour», a ajouté Félix L’Ecuyer.

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«C’est injuste, c’est merciless»

L’annonce de son décès a créé une onde de choc dans le monde des médias et auprès de tous ceux qui la connaissaient.

Ses collègues de TVA Trois-Rivières et de Cogeco lui ont rendu hommage mardi tout au lengthy de la journée. C’est notamment le cas de son coanimateur Karl Blanchard qui a livré un témoignage touchant lors de son émission, soulignant le expertise de la jeune femme et le vide immense qu’elle laisse.

La décrivant comme une personne sociable, pour qui l’inclusion était importante, ses collègues de TVA Trois-Rivières se souviendront d’elle comme étant celle qui allait parler avec les itinérants et qui poussait le monde à comprendre davantage leurs circumstances de vie.

«Cette sensibilité-là de Véro, c’est tellement touchant parce qu’elle accueillait tout le monde de la même façon, sur le même pied d’égalité», a expliqué sa collègue de TVA Nouvelles Isabelle Perron. Cette dernière a souligné notamment le expertise de Véronique Lévesque qui l’a convaincue de travailler avec elle à Trois-Rivières.

«On va tous s’ennuyer de Véro. C’est révoltant, c’est injuste, c’est merciless. Depuis trois semaines je manque de mots pour être succesful de dire tout ça. […] Il y aura une étoile de plus dans le ciel ce soir», a pour sa half déclaré l’animateur Alexis Samson, la voix nouée par l’émotion, mardi matin à l’antenne du 106,9 FM.

«Véronique se faisait un level d’honneur de faire rayonner l’ensemble des activités de la région […] C’était une femme pétillante, souriante, avec une énergie débordante. On voit qu’elle adorait faire son métier», a dit Naomie Rousseau, responsable des communications au FestiVoix de Trois-Rivières.

«Aujourd’hui, je pense qu’il y a beaucoup de gens qui essaient de trouver un sens à ça. Malheureusement, je pense que dans la vie, des fois, il faut se rendre compte qu’il n’y en a pas de sens», a indiqué pour sa half Paule Vermot-Desroches, vice-présidente de la Fédération professionnelle des journalistes du Québec, part régionale de la Mauricie.

Emma Raducanu to face qualifier or lucky loser in Madrid Open first round as Karolina Pliskova pulls out | Tennis News

Emma Raducanu will play a qualifier or fortunate loser within the first spherical of the Madrid Open on Wednesday after two-time Grand Slam finalist and former world No 1 Karolina Pliskova pulled out of their scheduled opener.

Raducanu received 4 matches in a row on clay final week, with two victories whereas representing Nice Britain towards France on the Billie Jean King Cup adopted by triumphs over Angelique Kerber and Linda Noskova on the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.

The Briton was knocked out within the quarter-finals in Stuttgart after a gutsy defeat to world No 1 Iga Swiatek.

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Highlights of the Stuttgart Open quarter-final between Raducanu and Iga Swiatek because the world No 1 ended the Briton’s spirited run

The 2021 US Open champion will now return to the courtroom within the Spanish capital, reside on Sky Sports activities, towards an as-yet-unknown opponent after Pliskova’s determination to withdraw from the event.

Ought to Raducanu win her opening match, she is going to face seventeenth seed Veronika Kudermetova in spherical two.

Boulter on collision course with defending champion Sabalenka?

Fellow Brit Katie Boulter has been given a first-round bye as she is the twenty sixth seed and can meet the winner of the match between American wild card Robin Montgomery and Russia’s Elina Avanesyan.

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Katie Boulter will play second seed Aryna Sabalenka if each gamers make it to the third spherical in Madrid

Boulter will play second seed Aryna Sabalenka if each gamers make it to the third spherical in Madrid.

Sabalenka has received the Madrid Open in two of the final three years, defeating Swiatek within the 2023 ultimate and the now-retired Ashleigh Barty in 2021.

Nonetheless, the Belarusian has not handed the quarter-finals in any occasion since profitable the Australian Open in January.

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Highlights from the ultimate of the Stuttgart Open as Elena Rybakina defeated Marta Kostyuk

Elena Rybakina received the title in Stuttgart final week, beating Swiatek within the semi-finals after which Marta Kostyuk within the ultimate, as she claimed her third title of the yr after wins in Brisbane in January and Abu Dhabi in February.

Rybakina will meet both Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti or a qualifier within the second spherical.

Nadal might face De Minaur once more

Within the males’s draw, Rafael Nadal was drawn towards American wild card Darwin Blanch and will he win that match, he’ll face Alex de Minaur for the second event working.

Nadal misplaced to De Minaur in straight units as he made his tennis comeback on the Barcelona Open final week.

British No 1 Cameron Norrie will get a bye to the second spherical as he is seeded twenty ninth, whereas Dan Evans and Jack Draper will face qualifiers.

Carlos Alcaraz is again after a month away from tennis and is seeded second, whereas Jannik Sinner is the highest seed.

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  • Morocco Open (WTA 250) – Monday Might 20-Sunday Might 26

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CSK vs LSG highlights IPL 2024: Lucknow Super Giants nails record run chase vs Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Tremendous Kings: Ajinkya Rahane, Rachin Ravindra, Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Sameer Rizvi, Moeen Ali, MS Dhoni(w), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mustafizur Rahman, Matheesha Pathirana, Shardul Thakur, Shaik Rasheed, Nishant Sindhu, Mitchell Santner, Daryl Mitchell, Aravelly Avanish, Maheesh Theekshana, RS Hangargekar, Simarjeet Singh, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Ajay Jadav Mandal, Richard Gleeson

Lucknow Tremendous Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(w/c), Nicholas Pooran, Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Matt Henry, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur, Arshin Kulkarni, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Manimaran Siddharth, Arshad Khan, Prerak Mankad, Amit Mishra, Kyle Mayers, Shamar Joseph, Ashton Turner, Naveen-ul-Haq, Devdutt Padikkal, Mayank Yadav

Study Shows Faster Recovery, Less Pain With 2910-nm Laser

BALTIMORE — A 2910-nm erbium-doped fluoride glass fiber laser, accredited 2 years in the past by the US Meals and Drug Administration, has demonstrated a excessive diploma of enchancment for facial photoaging and rhytides together with comparatively excessive charges of affected person satisfaction — whereas inflicting much less discomfort and downtime in contrast with typical fractional lasers, a small single-center examine confirmed. 

The examine enrolled 15 sufferers who had three therapy classes with the 2910-nm laser. “It is extremely customizable,” the examine’s lead creator, Taryn Murray, MD, a dermatologist at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, informed Medscape Dermatology. “It has a very quick time in therapeutic in comparison with conventional abatable lasers; the therapeutic time is 5 to seven days vs a number of weeks.” Murray offered the outcomes on the annual assembly of the American Society for Laser Medication and Surgical procedure.

The Expertise Behind the Laser

The 2910-nm erbium-doped fluoride glass fiber laser is a mid-infrared ablative fractional machine that operates at peak water absorption. It is designed to trigger minimal residual thermal injury, leading to much less discomfort, shorter downtime, and probably fewer negative effects than typical ablative lasers, Murray stated. 

Due to the way in which the pulses are delivered, “it’s miles much less painful than conventional fractional ablative lasers, so you should utilize primarily topical numbing; you do not want nerve blocks, you do not have to infiltrate lidocaine, you do not have to place the affected person below anesthesia,” she stated.

“Due to the wavelength, how pulses are delivered and the way customizable the settings are, it is safer to make use of in darker pores and skin sorts,” and the density, depth, and the quantity of coagulation utilized into the pores and skin are customizable, Murray added. 

The laser additionally delivers pulses differently than the standard 2940-nm erbium and CO2 lasers, she defined. “Conventional lasers do it multi function pulse. This laser makes use of micropulses with leisure time in between pulses, so the physique interprets it as much less painful and permits strain and steam to flee out of the channel, which leads to sooner therapeutic.”

The examine sufferers had topical anesthetic cream utilized to their faces 45-60 minutes earlier than the process. A number of passes had been made utilizing each superficial and deep laser modes. The typical affected person age was 65.7 years, and Fitzpatrick pores and skin sorts included I (n = 3), II (n = 3), III (n = 7) and IV (n = 2). On a scale of 0-10, the common degree of discomfort was 4.9, and the common affected person satisfaction after three therapies was 4.8, Murray stated.

For beauty enchancment, the examine used the 5-point International Aesthetic Enchancment Scale (GAIS). Blinded reviewers evaluated digital photographs and decided a median GAIS rating of three.2 for total look, 2.9 for wrinkles, 3.6 for pigment, 3.1 for pores and skin texture, and a couple of.6 for pores and skin laxity. 

When the sufferers themselves reviewed the digital photographs, the common GAIS rating was 3.8 for total look. 

Unintended effects, stated Murray, had been transient, with edema and soft-tissue crusting lasting 3-5 days and erythema resolving in 1-2 weeks on common. One case of postinflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) did come up, which was linked to allergic contact dermatitis from the therapeutic ointment. That affected person stayed within the examine and had full decision of the PIH.

Research Stands Out

A lot of research of the 2910-nm erbium-doped fluoride glass fiber laser have emerged over the previous half 12 months, Ritu Swali, MD, who was an American Society of Dermatologic Surgical procedure fellow at a apply in Houston, Texas, stated in an interview on the assembly. However this one stands out due to the proof surrounding its use.

Most individuals are utilizing this laser for facial resurfacing, “and we need to know that we now have a expertise…with shorter downtime and simpler wound care and simply extra consolation,” she stated.

She famous that with typical lasers, most sufferers get nerve blocks and a few even go for normal anesthesia. “To have the ability to do the degrees of facial resurfacing [Murray] is doing with out having to do all of that ache administration is fairly wonderful,” Swali added.

The velocity of the process and the comparatively quick downtime are additionally noteworthy, she stated. “The massive benefit is having a lot much less ache from the process itself, so that you’re capable of do it sooner as a result of they’re tolerating it so effectively and you are not having to take breaks,” she stated. 

As for downtime, Swali added, “these sufferers are coming in on a Thursday and they’re again up and working by Monday,” versus weeks that’s typical with a standard laser. This laser platform additionally avoids the pigmentation issues that may include persevering with and aggressive therapy with typical lasers, she stated. 

Murray disclosed relationships with Acclaro Medical, the producer of the laser. Swali has no relationships to reveal.

Richard Mark Kirkner is a medical journalist based mostly within the Philadelphia space.

Live Cricket Update – CSK vs LSG 39th Match – Live Report

In three video games earlier than this, no staff had come to Chepauk this season and overwhelmed CSK. No staff has come right here and chased down 211. LSG did each in the identical match, led by an impressive hundred by Marcus Stoinis.

With 17 required from the ultimate over, Stoinis launched the primary one over long-on earlier than drilling the subsequent straight again for 4. Luck, too, favoured him as the subsequent one raced to the appropriate of brief third. Fizz had overstepped as properly, which lowered the equation to 2 wanted from 4 balls.

On the subsequent, Stoinis moved throughout and pulled a brief ball over backward sq. leg to seal the deal.

Sampath provides that Stoinis now has the very best particular person rating in an IPL chase, bettering Paul Valthaty’s 120* in 2011, additionally vs CSK.

The end result means LSG are actually at No. 4 on the factors desk, with ten factors from eight video games. CSK slip to fifth.

That is all from our aspect for this recreation. See you quickly.

Who Is David Pecker—and What’d He Have to Tell Trump’s Jury? – Mother Jones

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The primary prison trial of a former US president is underway, with Donald Trump dealing with 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise information associated to hush-money funds allegedly made in 2016 to cowl up an affair he had with grownup movie star Stormy Daniels. Right here’s the newest—the important thing updates and absurd moments—from the historic trial.

“The folks name David Pecker.”

And with that, the primary witness in Donald Trump’s prison trial took the stand on Monday, the place prosecutors questioned the previous president and CEO of American Media Inc., the dad or mum firm of the Nationwide Enquirer, in regards to the apply of “catch and kill” to purchase unique tales to stop them from showing in different publications. 

“We used checkbook journalism, and we paid for tales,” Pecker stated when requested in regards to the tactic. Prosecutors have stated that Pecker’s testimony will reveal his deep involvement in serving to the Trump marketing campaign kill tales that had been unflattering to the then–presidential candidate. As my colleague David Corn wrote in a terrific curtain-raiser final week:

Throughout many years, Trump pumped up his picture as a swinger who considered ladies as trophies and toys, with their worth depending on their appears. The Stormy Daniels case snugly suits into this narrative: Trump was a participant who apparently cheated on his spouse (a brand new mom) with a porn star. That might have been hardcore Nationwide Enquirer materials—besides that Trump was an necessary operator inside the tabloid cosmos and an in depth pal of David Pecker, the president of the corporate that revealed the Nationwide Enquirer. Pecker and the journal’s editor conspired with Trump to stop Daniels from going public together with her allegation proper earlier than Election Day in 2016. That resulted within the $130,000 hush-money payoff to her. And that cost was falsely recorded on the Trump Group books as a authorized expense—which is the premise of the prison case in opposition to Trump. The particular query at hand is whether or not this phony bookkeeping was accomplished to cowl up what might need been an unlawful marketing campaign expenditure concocted by Trump and his fixer Michael Cohen to affect the election. 

Sounds scummy, proper? However Pecker’s deep involvement within the sordid extends far past Trump. Bear in mind these leaked sexts between Jeff Bezos and his now-fiancée, Lauren Sánchez? Bezos accused American Media of making an attempt to extort him over these compromising messages, which kicked off an FBI investigation into Pecker’s alleged efforts to drum up enterprise with Saudi Arabia and goal a mutual enemy of Mohammed bin Salman and…you guessed it, Donald Trump. 

Pecker testified for about half-hour immediately. He’ll retake the stand tomorrow, when maybe we’ll hear lurid particulars that by no means made it to print, comparable to Trump’s alleged request to be spanked and watch hours of Shark Week.

Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko out week-to-week

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Tocchet already goes to need to dig deep in his bag as a result of Thatcher Demko is immediately out of motion.

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The Canucks’ star netminder wasn’t accessible for sport 2 towards the Nashville Predators Tuesday and his standing for the collection is up within the air, the coach revealed after his staff’s non-compulsory morning skate at Rogers Enviornment. He stated it was a brand new harm, not a recurrence of the knee harm he suffered March 9 vs. Winnipeg. That harm, suspected to be a knee sprain, stored Demko out of motion for nearly six weeks.

Demko wasn’t a participant for Tuesday’s morning skate, a day after he’d been absent from a staff follow.

Demko is coping with a knee problem, a supply informed Postmedia.

“Doesn’t look good,” they stated.

TSN’s Farhan Lalji reported that Demko had an MRI scan on an injured knee Monday.

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After Tuesday’s 4-2 loss to the Nashville Predators, Tocchet up to date Demko’s standing to week-to-week and didn’t dismiss the notion his goalie will miss not less than the remainder of the collection.

The Canucks have been sturdy defensively for a lot of the season, so how they’ll defend received’t change, Tocchet identified.

Casey DeSmith took turns within the starter’s web earlier than Recreation 2, with third-stringer Arturs Silovs within the different web.

“All 12 months we’ve had individuals step up — out and in of the lineup. Casey, he performed an enormous sport towards Edmonton, what was it, 10 days in the past? An enormous sport to win the division. He’s it executed all 12 months for us. So simply march ahead,” he stated.

“You’re going to have individuals step up and the staff step up. That’s the mentality.”

DeSmith has made one earlier playoff begin, in 2022 for the Pittsburgh Penguins, a triple-overtime 4-3 win over the New York Rangers. It was fairly the beginning as he made 48 saves on 51 pictures earlier than leaving the online halfway via the second extra time interval with an harm. Former Canucks goalie Louis Domingue stepped in for DeSmith and performed till Evgeni Malkin received the sport a interval later.

Silovs has been up on an emergency recall for the reason that starting of the collection, though the staff hadn’t beforehand revealed who was in query, DeSmith or Demko.

Demko didn’t practise with teammates Monday, however Tocchet stated Demko skated earlier within the day. He stated he wasn’t positive if Demko suffered the harm throughout Sunday’s sport, or maybe in that skate.

Logic, although, suggests Demko was testing out his knee after struggling some type of drawback throughout Sunday’s sport. Video shared by Sportsnet earlier than Tuesday’s sport confirmed Demko showing to catch his leg on the publish late in sport 1, then wincing in apparent ache.

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Demko wasn’t made accessible after the sport on Sunday night time, with the PR staff saying he was in therapy.

“Stinks,” J.T. Miller stated earlier than Tuesday’s sport about not having Demko.

“However doesn’t change the best way we play.”

Tocchet concurred.

“Whether or not Demmer’s in web or whoever’s in web, you attempt to play the proper means. So why would we alter? Like unexpectedly we’re going to dump the puck in additional as a result of , now we have Casey in web? I imply, no. We’re going to play the identical means.”

DeSmith was added in a commerce on the eve of the common season as Tocchet and his bosses wished a seasoned, skilled backup. DeSmith, who they knew nicely from Pittsburgh, was an improve on incumbent No. 2 Spencer Martin.

DeSmith has confirmed to be the perfect Canucks backup in a decade.

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“I like his manner. Very nicely appreciated (by his teammates),” Tocchet stated. “Any time you get within the playoffs, there’s tales. And , he’s trying  to be a contributor to this staff and we anticipate the best way he’s performed all 12 months for us; actually stable hockey. We’re not searching for him to be spectacular. We’re trying (for him) to be Casey.”

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Learn extra of our Canucks playoff protection:

• Canucks: Frightened about lacking Thatcher Demko? Listed here are 5 backups who stole the present in playoffs
• Canucks vs. Predators Recreation Day: Constructing off unimaginable buzz, Elias Lindholm’s playoff arrival
• Disgrace? In contrast to Oilers and Leafs, there are not any public Canucks viewing events scheduled
• How Canucks Dakota Joshua, Conor Garland grew to become beasts on ice, buddies off it
• ‘Moments you reside for’: Canucks followers’ vitality, noise and towels making an enormous impression on the ice
• Canucks anthem singer Elizabeth Irving says O Canada for Recreation 1 was a “goosebumpy second”
• Canucks coach Rick Tocchet wants perplexing energy play in prime playoff assault mode
• Dakota Joshua ’getting higher and higher’ for the Canucks
• Canucks vs. Predators Recreation 1: How the objectives have been scored
• We’re all Canucks: Even the Lions guarding the Lions Gate Bridge


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Meet David Pecker, ex-tabloid publisher and first witness against Trump

Donald Trump constructed his celebrity-businessman fame within the pages of New York’s tabloids.

Now, within the former president’s legal hush cash trial in Manhattan, a former tabloid writer who helped burnish Trump’s picture is the prosecution’s first witness.

David Pecker, former writer of the Nationwide Enquirer, took the stand Monday afternoon to speak about his relationship with the previous president and the ways he used to maintain detrimental tales about Trump from surfacing.

He testified for lower than half-hour earlier than court docket adjourned so a juror may cope with a medical difficulty, however he’s anticipated again on the stand Tuesday.

Trump is charged with falsifying enterprise information in reference to a $130,000 fee to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels shortly earlier than the 2016 election. Prosecutors allege Trump categorized the information as a authorized expense, moderately than a marketing campaign expense, to maintain voters at midnight about Daniels’s allegation that she and Trump had a sexual tryst years earlier. Trump denies the allegation and has pleaded not responsible.

In his opening assertion Monday, Assistant District Legal professional Matthew Colangelo centered on Pecker’s interactions with Trump.

Pecker, a longtime Trump ally, is alleged to have helped dealer the fee to Daniels in his position on the time as chief govt of American Media Inc., the tabloid writer. It was a part of a follow often known as “catch-and-kill,” through which the Nationwide Enquirer sought to bury detrimental tales about Trump to assist his presidential bid.

Prosecutors say Pecker and a Nationwide Enquirer editor contacted then-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen — one other key witness within the case — shortly earlier than the 2016 election and instructed him Daniels was procuring round a narrative alleging a tryst with Trump. Quickly after, Cohen reached out to Daniels providing the $130,000 fee.

In his temporary time on the stand Monday, Pecker defined fundamentals about his former enterprise, together with how the corporate used “checkbook journalism” to pay for tales.

He stated he “gave a quantity to the editors, that they might not spend greater than $10,000 to analyze or publish a narrative.”

“To pay extra, it must be vetted and introduced as much as me.”

Trump watched him with a stony face for many of the questioning.

Jurors are anticipated to listen to proof of a gathering at Trump Tower in summer time 2015 involving Pecker, Cohen and Trump through which Pecker agreed “to make use of his media empire to assist the defendant’s marketing campaign,” Colangelo stated in court docket Monday.

The three males, the prosecutor stated, “struck an settlement at that assembly collectively — they conspired to affect the 2016 presidential election.” He stated Pecker would act as “eyes and ears for the marketing campaign,” attacking Trump’s political opponents and searching for out optimistic protection because the election progressed.

Colangelo stated there have been two different “catch-and-kill” tales involving Pecker and the Nationwide Enquirer.

One concerned Dino Sajudin, a Trump Tower doorman who reportedly tried to promote a narrative alleging that Trump had a baby out of wedlock.

Pecker paid Sajudin $30,000 for the story, in keeping with Colangelo, marking the primary time he paid for a narrative with out investigating it. The tabloid later decided the declare wasn’t true. Nonetheless, Cohen insisted that Pecker add a $1 million “nondisclosure settlement” and require that Sajudin hold quiet till after the 2016 election, the prosecutor stated.

American Media Inc. additionally beforehand admitted, in a 2018 settlement with federal prosecutors, to purchasing the silence of Playboy mannequin Karen McDougal, who stated she had an affair with Trump, to “suppress” that allegation and “forestall it from influencing the election.”

Pecker left the publishing firm in 2020.

Within the protection’s opening assertion, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche stated that the fee to Daniels was aboveboard and that Trump was not “criminally answerable for one thing Mr. Cohen could have finished years after the actual fact.”

“There’s nothing unsuitable with making an attempt to affect an election; it’s referred to as democracy,” Blanche stated. “They put one thing sinister on this concept as if it was against the law. You’ll be taught it’s not.”

Devlin Barrett, Shayna Jacobs, Tom Jackman and Hannah Knowles contributed to this report.

Canucks head coach says goalie Demko won’t play Tuesday’s Game 2 vs. Predators

The Canucks will probably be with out all-star goalie Thatcher Demko after they face the Nashville Predators in Sport 2 of their first-round playoff collection on Tuesday in Vancouver.

Head coach Rick Tocchet stated the 28-year-old netminder goes to be evaluated later Tuesday and is “day-to-day.”

“He skated yesterday. He is not going to play tonight,” Tocchet stated. “It wasn’t the outdated damage and that is all I actually acquired for you guys.”

Casey DeSmith will take over the Canucks’ internet for Sport 2 at 10 p.m. ET.

Demko performed all of Sport 1 for the Canucks on Sunday, backstopping the crew to a 4-2 victory. Tocchet stated he wasn’t positive whether or not the damage occurred throughout the sport.

“It might need been within the sport, however I am not fairly positive as a result of he skated yesterday,” he stated. “I do not know the precise timeline. That is why I do not wish to speculate whether or not it is this time or no matter.”

Demko missed 14 video games after struggling a knee damage on March 9, however returned for Vancouver’s two last video games of the common season. He completed the marketing campaign with a 35-14-2 document, 2.45 goals-against common, .918 save proportion and 5 shutouts.

‘He works more durable than anyone’

The all-star netminder confirmed his work ethic as he rehabilitated and acquired again into the lineup forward of playoffs, stated Canucks ahead J.T. Miller.

“It sucks. He works more durable than anyone on a day-to-day foundation when he isn’t injured, not to mention when he is attempting to get again in for stuff like this. So you are feeling for the man,” Miller stated.

“He is a giant a part of our crew, however we have got to discover a approach to be resilient as a bunch and transfer ahead. We’re not the one crew going by way of any such stuff. So it is gonna occur. We have to discover a approach to be resilient, like I stated.”

DeSmith, 32, had a 12-9-6 document with a 2.89 GAA and .896 save proportion for Vancouver this season.

He went 4-5-1 whereas Demko was out with the knee damage. Arturs Silovs, who will probably be DeSmith’s backup Tuesday, additionally performed 4 video games, going 3-0-1.

DeSmith is a popular goalie with an ideal manner, Tocchet stated.

“I am very assured [in DeSmith],” the coach stated. “Any time you get within the playoffs, there’s tales and he is seeking to be a contributor to his crew,” he stated. “And we anticipate, the way in which he is performed all yr for us, actually stable hockey. We’re not searching for him to be spectacular. We’re searching for him to be Casey.”

Lone playoff sport was memorable

DeSmith has made one playoff look in his NHL profession, and it was dramatic.

Enjoying for the Penguins, he stopped 48 of the 51 photographs he confronted in Pittsburgh’s 4-3 additional time win towards the New York Rangers in Sport 1 of a first-round collection on Could 3, 2022. DeSmith was injured within the second additional time and had to get replaced by Louis Domingue.

The Penguins introduced the next day that DeSmith would bear core surgical procedure.

The Canucks understand how they should play in entrance of DeSmith on Tuesday, Miller stated.

“If we play the way in which we’re presupposed to play, it ought to be a neater evening for Casey, within the sense of giving up large possibilities,” he stated.

“When that occurs, I do know [the goalie’s] life’s a hell of rather a lot simpler. So, like I stated, fear about us. There’s issues we will not management and that is clearly certainly one of them as a participant. So we’d like to have the ability to simply concentrate on the sport. Regular sport for us.”

Colleagues, friends pay tribute to late American journalist Terry Anderson

Terry Anderson, a longtime Related Press correspondent held hostage in Lebanon for almost seven years, has died on the age of 76.

A former Marine who fought in Vietnam, Anderson switched to journalism and reported on the Center East.

The journalist’s daughter, Sulome Anderson, mentioned Sunday that the veteran journalist died at his residence in Greenwood Lake, New York. The reason for dying was problems from latest coronary heart surgical procedure, she mentioned in an announcement.

Julie Tempo, government editor of the AP, paid tribute to Anderson.

“Terry was deeply dedicated to on-the-ground eyewitness reporting and demonstrated nice bravery and resolve, each in his journalism and through his years held hostage. We’re so appreciative of the sacrifices he and his household made as the results of his work,” she mentioned.

In 1985, Anderson was considered one of a number of Westerners kidnapped by Hezbollah throughout a time of civil battle in Lebanon.

Supported by Iran, the militants indicated they had been retaliating towards Israel’s use of American weapons in earlier strikes on Lebanon. Over the course of two,454 days, Anderson was held hostage in round 20 areas throughout Lebanon.

He was launched in 1991 because the civil battle ended. After being freed, Anderson met his daughter for the primary time, when she was six years previous. The journalist’s accomplice had been pregnant when the militants took him captive.

Talking to the AP, Sulome Anderson mentioned of her father, “He by no means appreciated to be known as a hero, however that’s what everybody continued in calling him.”

“I noticed him per week in the past and my accomplice requested him if he had something on his bucket listing, something that he needed to do. He mentioned, ‘I’ve lived a lot and I’ve accomplished a lot. I’m content material,’” she added.

Over time, Anderson taught at varied journalism applications together with the Columbia Graduate Faculty of Journalism, Scripps Faculty of Journalism at Ohio College, and the College of Florida.

He was additionally concerned with advocacy teams together with the Committee to Shield Journalists, or CPJ, the place he served as an honorary chair, and the Vietnam Kids’s Fund.

“Anderson’s public advocacy was instrumental in liberating journalists from jail and defending them towards the worst abuses,” former CPJ Government Director Joel Simon mentioned in an announcement.

“However what distinguished Terry was his private and infrequently personal interventions on behalf of journalists held hostage world wide. Terry recommended many households experiencing helplessness and trauma. His deep compassion helped them perceive they weren’t alone and bolstered their spirits within the darkest instances,” Simon added.

The Nationwide Press Membership additionally paid tribute to Anderson, saying in an announcement that he “reminded us that journalism is a harmful enterprise, and international correspondents, specifically, take nice private threat to maintain the general public knowledgeable.”

For a number of years, Anderson was the longest-held American journalist hostage. That distinction is now held by Austin Tice, a journalist held in Syria for nearly 12 years.

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