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[Rick Plant]

Sonic boom ‘explosion’ shakes Washington DC as fighter jets react to unresponsive plane before crash
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/annapolis-explosion-today-sonic-boom-b2351290.html

Explosion-Like Noise Heard Across D.C. Area Was a Sonic Boom, Officials Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/us/sonic-boom-washington-dc-maryland.html


US jets pursue light aircraft over Washington DC before it crashes in Virginia

The fighter jets caused a sonic boom over the US capital that sent some residents into a brief panic



US authorities scrambled fighter jets to intercept an unresponsive light aircraft that violated the airspace over the Washington DC area and later crashed into mountainous terrain in south-west Virginia, officials have said.

Four people were onboard the Cessna Citation plane, according to CNN, which cited an unnamed source. Police said rescuers had found no survivors onboard the plane.

The US fighter jets caused a sonic boom over Washington DC on Sunday, as they raced to catch up with the light aircraft, sending some resident into a brief panic.

A US official said the jet fighters did not cause the crash.

The plane that crashed was registered to a company based in Florida. John Rumpel, who runs the company, told the New York Times that his daughter, two-year-old granddaughter, her nanny and the pilot were aboard the plane. They were returning to their home in East Hampton, on Long Island, after visiting his house in North Carolina, he said.

Rumpel, a pilot, told the newspaper he didn’t have much information from authorities but hoped his family didn’t suffer and suggested the plane could’ve lost pressurisation.

The US military attempted to establish contact with the pilot, who was unresponsive, until the Cessna subsequently crashed near the George Washington National Forest in Virginia, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) said in a statement.

“The Norad aircraft were authorized to travel at supersonic speeds and a sonic boom may have been heard by residents of the region,” the statement said, adding that Norad aircraft also used flares in an attempt to draw attention from the pilot.

“Flares are employed with highest regard for safety of the intercepted aircraft and people on the ground. Flares burn out quickly and completely and there is no danger to the people on the ground when dispensed.”

The Federal Aviation Administration said the Cessna took off from Elizabethtown, Tennessee, on Sunday and was headed for Long Island’s MacArthur Airport.

According to the flight-tracking website Flight Aware, the plane appeared to reach the New York area and made nearly a 180-degree turn, flying a straight path down over DC with the flight ending in Virginia.

The sonic boom caused consternation among many residents in the capital region, who took to Twitter to report hearing a loud noise that shook the ground and walls. Several residents said

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/sonic-boom-from-us-military-aircraft-rattles-washington-dc-residents


Video captures sonic boom caused by fighter jets being scrambled

US fighter jets scrambled in response to an aircraft that ultimately crashed in southwest Virginia, according to a US official. The military aircraft caused a sonic boom heard across the Washington, DC, metropolitan and surrounding area.

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[Rick Plant]

SFGiants @SFGiants

We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former #SFGiants Manager Roger Craig.

The “Humm Baby” skippered the Giants for eight seasons. His 586 wins are sixth-most in Giants history and third-most in the San Francisco era.



https://twitter.com/SFGiants/status/1665523954411507713


Roger Craig, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher and original Met, dead at 93


As the New York Mets work out, left to right, Frank Thomas, Gil Hodges, Don Zimmer, and Roger Craig on April 9, 1962.

Roger Craig, who had the distinction of winning the last game in Brooklyn Dodgers history and the first game in Mets history and who was also a longtime major league manager, died Sunday.

He was 93.

The Giants, whom Craig managed for eight seasons, announced his passing.

“We have lost a legendary member of our Giants family.” Larry Baer, Giants president and chief executive officer, said in a statement. “Roger was beloved by players, coaches, front office staff and fans. He was a father figure to many and his optimism and wisdom resulted in some of the most memorable seasons in our history.”

Craig, played 12 seasons in the majors from 1955-66, posting a 74-98 record and 3.83 ERA in 186 starts and 368 career appearances for the Dodgers, Mets, Cardinals, Reds and Phillies.

He spent seven seasons in Dodger blue, including the first three years of his career in Brooklyn.

Craig won three World Series, including as a member of the famed 1955 Dodgers.

The North Carolina native was then selected by the Mets in the 1961 expansion draft and was a member of the franchise’s original team that holds the record for most losses in a season with 120.

Craig lost 24 games that season and posted a 15-46 record overall during two seasons in Flushing with a 4.14 ERA.

When his playing days ended, he became a great advocate and teacher of the split-finger fastball — which he taught to Hall of Famer Jack Morris when he was with the Tigers in 1980.

After spending time as a scout and minor league manager with the Dodgers, he became the Padres’ first pitching coach in 1968 and eventually their manager in 1978 — replacing Alvin Dark.

Craig managed San Diego for just two seasons, going 152-177.

He was hired as manager by the Giants very late in the 1985 season. He would manage in the Bay Area for the next eight seasons.

Craig led the Giants to the World Series in 1989, which featured a magnitude 6.9 earthquake during Game 3.

San Francisco was swept by the Oakland A’s in four games when the series resumed and Craig was out three seasons later.

"Our heartfelt condolences go out to his wife, Carolyn, his four children, Sherri Paschelke, Roger Craig Jr, Teresa Hanvey and Vikki Dancan, his seven grandchildren, his 14 great grandchildren as well as his extended family and friends,” Baer said.

https://nypost.com/2023/06/05/roger-craig-dodgers-pitcher-and-original-met-dead-at-93/

[Rick Plant]

Norma Hunt, wife of the Kansas City Chiefs founder, dies at 85



Norma Hunt, the wife of the late Kansas City Chiefs founder Lamar Hunt and the only woman who had attended every Super Bowl, has died, the team announced Sunday.

The team and the National Football League said she was 85. The cause of death was not given.

"Kind, generous and unfailingly positive, mom was one of a kind," the Hunt family said in a statement. "Her joy and zeal for life were infectious. She loved caring for others, and she always had an encouraging word. She was a loyal friend, the consummate hostess and she had a rare ability to make everyone she encountered feel valued and at ease."

"Mom was steadfastly devoted to her family and fiercely passionate about her family's sports teams," the statement added. "She was by our father Lamar's side every step of the way – from the merger of the AFL and the NFL to the formation of Major League Soccer, World Championship Tennis, the North American Soccer League, and their founding investment in the Chicago Bulls. She was the only person we knew who rivaled his love of sports. The two of them found such joy together, whether at home, or in stadium stands around the world."

Lamar Hunt died in 2006.

In February, Norma Hunt was able to attend her 57th Super Bowl and watch the Chiefs take home the victory for the third time in franchise history. In May, the team announced it will visit the White House Monday.

"Mrs. Norma was the best. Glad to be a part of this special organization she help build. She will be missed! Prayers to the entire Hunt family," Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes said.

"The entire NFL family is deeply saddened by the passing of Norma Hunt, who was a significant presence in the NFL for the last seven decades," NFL Commissioner Roger Gooddell said.

"I was fortunate to know Norma for nearly 40 years and was always struck by her warmth and grace, her partnership with Lamar, and her pride in their family," he added. "Norma's sense of family extended to the Chiefs' organization which she greatly adored."

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/05/1180091024/norma-hunt-kansas-city-chiefs



"Superstar" Billy Graham, wrestling Hall of Famer, dead at 79, WWE says



Pro wrestling legend "Superstar" Billy Graham has died, World Wrestling Entertainment says.

He was just short of his 80th birthday.

Graham, whose real name was Eldridge Wayne Coleman, was born on June 7, 1943 in Phoenix.

Graham's "flashy fashion style, over-the-top interviews and bodybuilder physique created the archetype for a generation of Superstars that followed in his footsteps," WWE says.

He was, according to WWE, "perhaps the single-most influential performer in WWE history whose interviews, fashion and physique inspired Hulk Hogan, Jesse 'The Body' Ventura and Scott Steiner."

It notes that his "greatest WWE achievement" was taking the WWE championship from fellow wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino in April 1977. He held onto the title for almost a year.

Graham was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004.

He retired in 1987, at the age of 44, and became a manager and then a color commentator.

Graham's wife wrote early Monday, on   his Facebook page that that he was on life support in a hospital and doctors wanted to take him off, but she refused.

"He's a fighter and his will is strong even if his body isn't," she wrote. "God is our hope."

Graham suffered from medical issues for months, according to a GoFundMe page. He'd lost 80 pounds as of April 26 and was enduring kidney, heart and lung problems.

The former wrestler has struggled with his health before. In his autobiography, Graham wrote about a history of drug abuse, which led to a liver transplant in 2002.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/superstar-billy-graham-wwe-hall-of-famer-dead-79/



Isaac “Redd” Holt, Percussionist and Jazz Fusion Pioneer, Dies at 91

The percussionist played on the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s Grammy-winning album The In Crowd



Isaac “Redd” Holt the jazz fusion pioneer and founding member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio, died Tuesday (May 23). The Grammy-winning percussionist, songwriter, educator, humanitarian, and entrepreneur recorded dozens of albums as a sideman and a bandleader, as well as with bassist Eldee Young. His music has been sampled more than 200 times by hip-hop artists such as De La Soul, Kendrick Lamar, and Pete Rock & CL Smooth. He was 91.

Born in Rosedale, Mississippi, on May 16, 1932, Holt scored his first gigs with Lester Young in the 1950s while still attending high school at Chicago’s American Conservatory of Music. He served a stint in the U.S. Army before joining Ramsey Lewis’ original trio alongside bassist Eldee Young.

The Ramsey Lewis Trio’s high-water mark was their second LP, The In Crowd, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard albums chart in 1965. The title track also cracked the top five on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and reached No. 2 on the R&B chart. The album won a Grammy Award in 1966 for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, and the single would be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. Dizzy Gillespie would later credit the trio—which melded bebop with soul, R&B, rock, and opera—as a forerunner to jazz fusion.

Following the album’s resounding success, Holt and Young left to form the Young-Holt Trio, which eventually became the Young-Holt Unlimited. The group featured an expansive rotating cast of musicians, many of whom signed to the publishing company the two founded together. The pair disbanded in 1974.

Holt spent much of the 1980s releasing various collaborations and projects. He would also return to school, attending Kennedy-King College to study radio and television. He endorsed Ludwig drums, and the company’s founder, Bill Ludwig, designed a custom drum rack to hold Holt’s congas—an innovation that would become the standard in drum shops around the world.

The final album of Holt’s lifetime is It's a Take.

https://pitchfork.com/news/isaac-redd-holt-percussionist-and-jazz-fusion-pioneer-dies-at-91/


Soulful Strut · The Young-Holt Unlimited

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Biden signs debt limit bill, avoiding U.S. default


U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech on bipartisan legislation that lifts the federal government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, in his first Oval Office address to the nation at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 2, 2023. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

WASHINGTON, June 3 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a bill that suspends the U.S. government's $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, averting what would have been a first-ever default with just two days to spare.

The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the legislation this week after Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement following tense negotiations.

The Treasury Department had warned it would be unable to pay all its bills on Monday if Congress had failed to act by then.

Biden signed the bill at the White House a day after hailing it as a bipartisan triumph in his first-ever Oval Office address to the nation as president.

The bill signing, which was closed to the press, marked a low-key, symbolic end to a crisis that vexed Washington for months, forced Biden to cut short an international trip in Asia and threatened to push the United States to the brink of an unprecedented economic crisis.

"Thank you to Speaker McCarthy, Leader Jeffries, Leader Schumer, and Leader McConnell for their partnership," the White House said in a statement announcing the bill's signing, naming the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House and Senate.

Officials later released a ten-second clip of Biden silently signing the document at the White House.

"It was critical to reach an agreement, and it's very good news for the American people," Biden said on Friday. "No one got everything they wanted. But the American people got what they needed."

The Republican-controlled House voted 314 to 117 to approve the bill, and the Democrat-controlled Senate voted 63 to 36.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-signs-bill-lifting-us-debt-limit-2023-06-03/



Watch Biden’s full Oval Office address about the debt ceiling deal

President Joe Biden gave the first Oval Office address of his presidency to speak about the debt limit bill passed by Congress. #CNN

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[Rick Plant]

Bodies of 3 men recovered from Davenport, Iowa, building collapse site, officials say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/davenport-building-collapse-branden-colvin-ryan-hitchcock-daniel-prien/


Surveillance video shows Davenport building collapse

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[Rick Plant]

The article in the link below has an even more detailed account of officials claiming the U.S. recovered a non human aircraft.


Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/


Military Whistleblower Comes Forward to Allege U.S. Has Alien Craft: Report

A whistleblower on the U.S. government’s “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” task force is coming forward to allege that federal agencies have secretly recovered and studied alien craft—a claim that NASA and other departments deny strenuously. Dave Grusch, an Air Force veteran and former member of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, is identifying himself publicly for the first time Monday after the story was first reported by The Debrief. Following the piece, he’s made bombshell claims during an interview with NewsNation’s Ross Coulthart, set to air Monday night. He claims that a number of high-level intelligence officers approached him with evidence, including oral testimony and physical documentation of a crash-retrieval program that was being hidden from the UAP task force. “These are retrieving non-human origin technical vehicles, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human exotic origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed,” Grusch told NewsNation. He claims to have filed a whistleblower complaint with Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General that includes classified “proof”—though he declined to provide any of the evidence to NewsNation.

Watch: https://twitter.com/i/status/1665755658074095616

https://www.thedailybeast.com/military-whistleblower-comes-forward-to-allege-us-has-alien-craft-report-says

[Richard Smith]

Leftist, state arm propaganda network CNN is breathlessly covering the fact that the pool at Mar-a-lago apparently flooded a room while being drained.  They are spinning this as some type of conspiracy.  LOL.  This is what they now consider to be news.  The only thing under water is CNN's ratings which are sinking faster than the Titanic.