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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Snoop Dogg Joins the Cast of ‘PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie'
PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie just announced its latest wave of star-studded voice talent, and Snoop Dogg is officially joining the pack. The upcoming third feature film in the wildly popular kid's franchise has added the legendary rapper to a cast that already includes EGOT winner Jennifer Hudson. The West Coast legend will be joined by Paris Hilton, Terry Crews, Jameela Jamil, Bill Nye, Meredith MacNeill, and returning cast member Ron Pardo. More from Billboard Natasha Bedingfield, BigXthaPlug & Ravyn Lenae Set for Northwestern University's Dillo Day Festival Lululemon's Viral $58 Purse Has Reviewers Ditching Their Designer Bags - and It's $10 Cheaper Than Last Year Pearl Talks Winning 'Masked Singer' Season 13 & Showing Viewers More Than 'This Redneck Y'all Keep Talkin' About' PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie arrives in celebration of the franchise's 10th anniversary. Building on the momentum of its previous two films — which earned over $350 million worldwide — the new installment marks the return of director Cal Brunker, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Bob Barlen. The fan-favorite PAW Patrol pups are back, voiced by a talented cast: Lucien Duncan-Reid as Rubble, Nylan Parthipan as Zuma, Carter Young as Marshall, Hayden Chemberlen as Rex, Rain Janjua as Chase, William Desrosiers as Rocky, and Henry Bolan as Ryder. 'This amazing assembly of performers is befitting of the dino-sized franchise that is PAW Patrol,' said Spin Master's president of entertainment Jennifer Dodge in a statement. 'Alongside the brilliant talent already involved in the film, these cast additions will make this a must-see adventure, as our beloved team of rescue pups enters its second decade of captivating kids and families worldwide.' PAW Patrol isn't the only thing Snoop is up to lately — the rapper recently announced a sweeping new partnership with NBCUniversal that will see the him return to The Voice as a coach alongside various other TV, film, sports and streaming projects. Best of Billboard Kelly Clarkson, Michael Buble, Pentatonix & Train Will Bring Their Holiday Hits to iHeart Christmas Concert Fox Plans NFT Debut With $20 'Masked Singer' Collectibles 14 Things That Changed (or Didn't) at Farm Aid 2021
Time of India
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
"He's not the guy"- Logan Paul reveals Steve Austin turning down his lucrative million-dollar deal
Image via WWE Logan Paul had once again offered Stone Cold Steve Austin a staggering deal, only to be turned down by him. Logan Paul has thrived as a worldwide celebrity, WWE superstar, and smart businessman. One of his major business ventures is PRIME Hydration , which has become a huge part of the energy drink market. The brand has sponsored many top sports entities, such as WWE, Football, Basketball, and more. Moreover, Logan Paul once wanted to bring Stone Cold Steve Austin on board for a PRIME campaign. He even made a highly lucrative offer to the Texas Rattlesnake, but the WWE Hall of Famer turned it down, as Paul himself revealed. Why did Steve Austin reject Logan Paul's offer? During the recent edition of the Impaulsive podcast, Logan revealed that he offered Stone Cold Steve Austin one million dollars to wear the PRIME bottle costume for a promotional stunt. However, the Bionic Redneck refused his offer and Paul also added that Austin would never be a part of his brand. He said, " Bro, we offered Steve a million dollars to be in the Prime bottle. He didn't do it. Oh, he's not the guy. I don't care what number it is—he's not getting in that bottle. Ever. " by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Free P2,000 GCash eGift UnionBank Credit Card Apply Now Undo Furthermore, Logan Paul believed that Austin rejected the offer for fear of the WWE Universe turning on him for partnering with him, as he himself is a controversial figure. "I mean, I don't think he even considered it for a second. The WWE Universe would kill him. Imagine it—he face-revealed the Prime bottle. It's f******* Stone Cold. He could have done anything, which is why I think it would have worked, ultimately. And maybe one year. But I'm just saying, bro.' Logan Paul's Backstage Fight with John Cena, Finding God w/ George Janko, Jake Paul's Next Fight 453 Both Logan Paul and Steve Austin were a part of WrestleMania 41 last weekend. The Maverick is coming off a huge win over AJ Styles in a blockbuster showdown. Meanwhile, Austin made an appearance at the show to announce the official attendance record of WrestleMania 41 for both nights. While Logan Paul did say that Austin would never consider becoming a part of PRIME, it seems he is right, as turning down a million dollars was a huge decision that the Texas Rattlesnake made. Also read: John Cena's Net Worth in 2025 after becoming the 17 time WWE World Champion
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Yahoo
Texas Game Wardens Are Too Smart for Porta-Potty Poachers and Hay-Bale Blinds
Using patience and a trail camera, Texas Game Wardens arrested a trespasser on his way to a blind on private property he didn't have permission to hunt. The arrest was made in November, but Monday's announcement signals the conclusion of the multi-year investigation. The case started in 2023, when wardens discovered a deer blind converted from a Porta-Potty on private land in Henderson County in East Texas. Unable to catch the trespasser that season, law enforcement set a trail camera on the property line and waited. Sure enough, on opening day of the 2024 season, the wardens nabbed the trespasser on camera. The man had been walking to his stand, which overlooked a feeder he had also snuck onto the property. Confronted by the wardens, he confessed, was charged, and removed the stand and his feeder from the property. His name was not publicly released. Mainstream media outlets, which ordinarily wouldn't care about a trespassing deer hunter, fixated on the Porta-Potty part and ran with it. It prompted cute headlines like 'Wardens Flush Out Poacher' for instance, although I'd have gone with 'Possum Police Pinch Porta-Potty Poacher' because alliteration is fun. Local news had a potty-humor field day, as you would expect from local news outlets. Those of us who get out a little, however, know that Porta-Potty blinds are a thing. They have been for a while and, if you make your own, it doesn't have be as ratty-looking as the one the Texas wardens discovered. You can buy a Redneck blind for a few thousand dollars, or you can be redneck and make your own from a converted portable toilet. A decommissioned porta-john can cost $100 or less if you look around, or it might be free if you know a guy. After that, it's up to you what you make out of it. Plow Boy Engineering and Lady Kountry have ideas. Just be sure to put it on property you're actually allowed to hunt. In another bizarre blind case of a more serious nature also announced Monday, wardens assisting with Operation Lone Star, a long-running Texas border security program, responded to a call about a pickup truck bailout. A K-9 officer and his black Lab, Jake, responded. Officials found the truck with at least one hay-bale in the bed and the driver gone. Jake was very interested in the bale, but his handler called him off to search for the missing driver. Jake and the officer got their man, because Texas wardens and Good Dogs usually do. Read Next: Kreed the Conservation Dog Is a Poacher's Worst Nightmare In the meantime, other officers responding to the call were surprised when that same 'bale' that had caught Jake's attention rolled out of the truck. The bale turned out to be hay on the outside of a frame of woven wire, with 10 undocumented men hiding inside. A hay-bale blind might fool people, but it did not fool Jake. And this is yet another reason why you should always trust the dog.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
American fighters are dying in Ukraine in growing numbers. Bringing their bodies home is a complex task
Editor's Note: This report contains details of death and injury that some may find distressing. More than 20 Americans are missing in action on the front lines in Ukraine, with a spike in casualties over the past six months as foreigners fill urgent gaps in the country's embattled defenses, according to a CNN investigation. The bodies of at least five American volunteers who signed up to the Ukrainian military could not be retrieved from the battlefield after being killed in action in the past six months, CNN found. Two of these were repatriated from Russian-occupied territory on Friday to Ukrainian soil after lengthy negotiations. The stark testimony of their surviving colleagues, and the growing toll, portrays the obscure yet important role of American frontline fighters in a war President Donald Trump has called 'ridiculous' and has pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin to end diplomatically. The relatives of the missing Americans have told CNN of the distressing lack of closure in not being able to bury their sons, of the legal limbo of not being able to officially declare their loved ones dead, and also of the torment inflicted by Russian internet trolls who harass them online. The intensity of fighting across Ukraine's front eastern lines means the corpses of soldiers from both sides often cannot be collected and litter the battlefield. Two American volunteers were killed in a single incident just outside Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine in late September, according to survivors and relatives. Neither's body has been recovered. Former US soldier Zachary Ford, 25, from Missouri, and another American without military experience, whose family requested to be identified only by his callsign 'Gunther,' were killed by a drone while tasked with blowing up a bridge near the village of Novohrodivka. The surviving American, who asked to be known by his callsign 'Redneck,' described a mission with a limited chance of success, where the group of three US volunteers were swiftly trapped by Russian fire in a trench about 500 meters from their bridge target. 'Russian drones start coming down the treeline, to try to crash through the roof of the bunker,' he recalled in an interview with CNN last week from the United States. A log in the roof fell and hit him in the face, he said. 'I had the shotgun, I was trying to shoot these things down.' Ford told his commanders on the radio they would abort the mission but was instructed to continue and that no evacuation was possible for another day, Redneck said. As the assault began, Redneck said he fired his machine gun at Russians directly in front of him, and that Ukrainians manning a grenade launcher and anti-tank Javelin weapon system died while holding back Russian armor. He said he stepped into a bunker to get ammunition, narrowly missing the drone strike that wounded Ford and Gunther. Ford's injuries required two tourniquets to stem the bleeding, Redneck said, which he applied before rejoining the defense and seeing a Ukrainian soldier fatally shot in the face in front of him. Minutes later, he heard Ford yell, 'Gunther is dead,' he told CNN. 'I came down to check, and the Ukrainian that was in there, and just looked at me and said, 'friend dead.'' Redneck said Ford remained stable, and their commander warned on the radio that another Russian attack was imminent. 'He knew we weren't going to make it through another attack,' said Redneck of Ford, 'so he started asking me to kill him so he wouldn't be captured.' Redneck said he refused and told Ford they would find a way through this, before continuing to reload their weapons ahead of the anticipated assault. 'He went really quiet,' said Redneck of Ford. 'A couple minutes later, (he) called me over and said he had loosened his tourniquets.' Redneck said he reapplied them, but Ford had lost too much blood. Redneck said Ford's last request was to see the sunlight as he died. 'I laid him down with his head towards the door, so he could look out, see the sun, and I just held his hand. The last really intelligible thing he said was, 'never let it be said that the bastards killed me.'' Redneck said Ford had expressed a sentiment common among foreign fighters. His most vivid memory of Ford was the tiny blue speaker he carried with him, on which he would constantly play the UK artist Artemas' song, 'I like the way you kiss me.' 'He always was playing music and dancing around that speaker,' he said. He said the likelihood of foreign volunteer fighters surviving on the front line depended on their level of experience but also on the tasks given by the brigades they joined. While some officers gave foreigners and Ukrainians equal tasks, he said, others 'will sell you out and get you killed just as quick.' 'At this point, you cannot say it's not America's fight,' he said. Critics of the war are 'trying to say, 'well, this is Ukraine's problem. If we can just make peace now, we won't have to deal with this.' The truth is, it's not going to stop,' Redneck added. He blamed the losses in his brigade on a 'bad officer… who didn't really see a difference between anyone. It was meat for the grinder, and he just sent whoever he could get.' Redneck, speaking from the United States, said his unit was evacuated from the area and he later saw drone footage of Ford and Gunther's bodies. The area where they fought is now under Russian control. The process of retrieving the dead from the front lines is arduous and emotional. Former US Marine Corey Nawrocki, 41, from Pennsylvania, died fighting in Russia's Bryansk region in October. His body was paraded by Russian soldiers on Telegram, but after complex negotiations was one of nearly 800 dead returned to Ukraine by Russia on Friday, as was that of another missing American. His mother, Sandy Nawrocki, wept as she described feeling a 'whirlwind of emotions – relief, but sadness. A weight is lifted off my shoulder because now I don't have to worry about what they might be doing to him over there.' She described Nawrocki, a marine veteran of two decades with six tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, as a 'smartass' who loved to make her laugh and was driven to fight in Ukraine because of the toll he had seen on civilians. 'Innocent people getting killed, babies being slaughtered,' she said. 'I think that really bothered him.' Nawrocki died after being shot while trying to help an injured colleague, his mother said she was told. Images of his body and weapons were widely shared on Russian social media and she says her address and video of her home, were also posted. When she tried to notify Nawrocki's Marine friends on social media of his death, pro-Russian trolls 'would post all these nasty comments and, smiley faces,' she said. She did not want her son to go to Ukraine but this 'was an unprovoked war,' she said. 'This is everyone's war. If Russia wins, wins over Ukraine, that affects Poland, that affects all the European countries.' The repatriation of dead Americans is the culmination of a complex and emotional path for those involved. Lauren Guillaume, an American living in Kyiv and working for the non-profit RT Weatherman Foundation, assists foreign families in finding their loved ones, often by trawling through morgues with the foundation's Ukrainian investigator, Iryna Khoroshayeva. Positive identification is possible through a combination of visual identification methods and DNA testing, Guillaume said. Ukrainian officials said the task of identifying the dead is more complex when remains are returned from the Russian side. 'After a body swap, we may be given a bag with 10 body remains belonging to different people,' said Artur Dobroserdov, Ukraine's commissioner for missing persons under the Ministry of the Interior. Dobroserdov confirmed that more than 20 Americans were missing in action, and said they could only release any part of the remains for repatriation once they had identified all of them, as they did not want families to bury part of a loved one only to be later given more remains. One of the first cases in which Guillaume was able to assist was that of US Army veteran Cedric Hamm, from Texas, who was killed in the northern border region of Sumy in March. Hamm's family were able to identify the unique mixture of Aztec and US military tattoos on his body in a video livestream Guillaume set up from the morgue. The body was then repatriated to San Antonio in December. 'I'm very proud of my son,' said his mother, Raquel Hamm, who said he had fought in Ukraine as he was keen to use his military past to travel. 'His composure, even to the very end' had struck her, she said, describing how she was told 'he saved another young man' during the gunfight that killed him. 'My expectation, honestly, was that my son was never going to be found,' said Hamm. 'My son paid the ultimate price on the battlefield for Ukrainian freedom and that's forever going to live with me. My child did not die in vain.' 'He was very selfless,' said a fellow American fighter injured in the battle that killed Cedric Hamm, speaking to CNN from the US where he is recovering. He asked to be referred to by a pseudonym, Mitchell, for security reasons. Guillaume said foreigners can be declared dead through physical confirmation, like DNA testing on their remains, or through a court ruling, if there is significant evidence of their death. 'It takes time,' she said. In March, her organization had a caseload of 16. It is now dealing with 88 dead or missing foreigners across 18 nationalities – half of them Americans. 'Most of that is missing in action cases,' she said. The true death toll among American volunteers in Ukraine remains unclear, Guillaume said. She believes the rising number of dead and missing is down to foreigners being sent to tough, frontline areas where their prior military experience is needed. 'We find that foreign operators do fill the gaps of very difficult, high-risk, high-reward operations. Their lives and their sacrifice are not wasted.'
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
American fighters are dying in Ukraine in growing numbers. Bringing their bodies home is a complex task
Editor's Note: This report contains details of death and injury that some may find distressing. More than 20 Americans are missing in action on the front lines in Ukraine, with a spike in casualties over the past six months as foreigners fill urgent gaps in the country's embattled defenses, according to a CNN investigation. The bodies of at least five American volunteers who signed up to the Ukrainian military could not be retrieved from the battlefield after being killed in action in the past six months, CNN found. Two of these were repatriated from Russian-occupied territory on Friday to Ukrainian soil after lengthy negotiations. The stark testimony of their surviving colleagues, and the growing toll, portrays the obscure yet important role of American frontline fighters in a war President Donald Trump has called 'ridiculous' and has pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin to end diplomatically. The relatives of the missing Americans have told CNN of the distressing lack of closure in not being able to bury their sons, of the legal limbo of not being able to officially declare their loved ones dead, and also of the torment inflicted by Russian internet trolls who harass them online. The intensity of fighting across Ukraine's front eastern lines means the corpses of soldiers from both sides often cannot be collected and litter the battlefield. Two American volunteers were killed in a single incident just outside Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine in late September, according to survivors and relatives. Neither's body has been recovered. Former US soldier Zachary Ford, 25, from Missouri, and another American without military experience, whose family requested to be identified only by his callsign 'Gunther,' were killed by a drone while tasked with blowing up a bridge near the village of Novohrodivka. The surviving American, who asked to be known by his callsign 'Redneck,' described a mission with a limited chance of success, where the group of three US volunteers were swiftly trapped by Russian fire in a trench about 500 meters from their bridge target. 'Russian drones start coming down the treeline, to try to crash through the roof of the bunker,' he recalled in an interview with CNN last week from the United States. A log in the roof fell and hit him in the face, he said. 'I had the shotgun, I was trying to shoot these things down.' Ford told his commanders on the radio they would abort the mission but was instructed to continue and that no evacuation was possible for another day, Redneck said. As the assault began, Redneck said he fired his machine gun at Russians directly in front of him, and that Ukrainians manning a grenade launcher and anti-tank Javelin weapon system died while holding back Russian armor. He said he stepped into a bunker to get ammunition, narrowly missing the drone strike that wounded Ford and Gunther. Ford's injuries required two tourniquets to stem the bleeding, Redneck said, which he applied before rejoining the defense and seeing a Ukrainian soldier fatally shot in the face in front of him. Minutes later, he heard Ford yell, 'Gunther is dead,' he told CNN. 'I came down to check, and the Ukrainian that was in there, and just looked at me and said, 'friend dead.'' Redneck said Ford remained stable, and their commander warned on the radio that another Russian attack was imminent. 'He knew we weren't going to make it through another attack,' said Redneck of Ford, 'so he started asking me to kill him so he wouldn't be captured.' Redneck said he refused and told Ford they would find a way through this, before continuing to reload their weapons ahead of the anticipated assault. 'He went really quiet,' said Redneck of Ford. 'A couple minutes later, (he) called me over and said he had loosened his tourniquets.' Redneck said he reapplied them, but Ford had lost too much blood. Redneck said Ford's last request was to see the sunlight as he died. 'I laid him down with his head towards the door, so he could look out, see the sun, and I just held his hand. The last really intelligible thing he said was, 'never let it be said that the bastards killed me.'' Redneck said Ford had expressed a sentiment common among foreign fighters. His most vivid memory of Ford was the tiny blue speaker he carried with him, on which he would constantly play the UK artist Artemas' song, 'I like the way you kiss me.' 'He always was playing music and dancing around that speaker,' he said. He said the likelihood of foreign volunteer fighters surviving on the front line depended on their level of experience but alsoon the tasks given by the brigades they joined. While some officers gave foreigners and Ukrainians equal tasks, he said, others 'will sell you out and get you killed just as quick.' He blamed the losses in his brigade on a 'bad officer… who didn't really see a difference between anyone. It was meat for the grinder, and he just sent whoever he could get.' 'At this point, you cannot say it's not America's fight,' he said. Critics of the war are 'trying to say, 'well, this is Ukraine's problem. If we can just make peace now, we won't have to deal with this.' The truth is, it's not going to stop,' Redneck added. Redneck, speaking from the United States, said his unit was evacuated from the area and he later saw drone footage of Ford and Gunther's bodies. The area where they fought is now under Russian control. The process of retrieving the dead from the front lines is arduous and emotional. Former US Marine Corey Nawrocki, 41, from Pennsylvania, died fighting in Russia's Bryansk region in October. His body was paraded by Russian soldiers on Telegram, but after complex negotiations was one of nearly 800 dead returned to Ukraine by Russia on Friday, as was that of another missing American. His mother, Sandy Nawrocki, wept as she described feeling a 'whirlwind of emotions – relief, but sadness. A weight is lifted off my shoulder because now I don't have to worry about what they might be doing to him over there.' She described Nawrocki, a marine veteran of two decades with six tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, as a 'smartass' who loved to make her laugh and was driven to fight in Ukraine because of the toll he had seen on civilians. 'Innocent people getting killed, babies being slaughtered,' she said. 'I think that really bothered him.' Nawrocki died after being shot while trying to help an injured colleague, his mother said she was told. Images of his body and weapons were widely shared on Russian social media and she says her address and video of her home, were also posted. When she tried to notify Nawrocki's Marine friends on social media of his death, pro-Russian trolls 'would post all these nasty comments and, smiley faces,' she said. She did not want her son to go to Ukraine but this 'was an unprovoked war,' she said. 'This is everyone's war. If Russia wins, wins over Ukraine, that affects Poland, that affects all the European countries.' The repatriation of dead Americans is the culmination of a complex and emotional path for those involved. Lauren Guillaume, an American living in Kyiv and working for the non-profit RT Weatherman Foundation, assists foreign families in finding their loved ones, often by trawling through morgues with the foundation's Ukrainian investigator, Iryna Khoroshayeva. Positive identification is possible through a combination of visual identification methods and DNA testing, Guillaume said. Ukrainian officials said the task of identifying the dead is more complex when remains are returned from the Russian side. 'After a body swap, we may be given a bag with 10 body remains belonging to different people,' said Artur Dobroserdov, Ukraine's commissioner for missing persons under the Ministry of the Interior. Dobroserdov confirmed that more than 20 Americans were missing in action, and said they could only release any part of the remains for repatriation once they had identified all of them, as they did not want families to bury part of a loved one only to be later given more remains. One of the first cases in which Guillaume was able to assist was that of US Army veteran Cedric Hamm, from Texas, who was killed in the northern border region of Sumy in March. Hamm's family were able to identify the unique mixture of Aztec and US military tattoos on his body in a video livestream Guillaume set up from the morgue. The body was then repatriated to San Antonio in December. 'I'm very proud of my son,' said his mother, Raquel Hamm, who said he had fought in Ukraine as he was keen to use his military past to travel. 'His composure, even to the very end' had struck her, she said, describing how she was told 'he saved another young man' during the gunfight that killed him. 'My expectation, honestly, was that my son was never going to be found,' said Hamm. 'My son paid the ultimate price on the battlefield for Ukrainian freedom and that's forever going to live with me. My child did not die in vain.' 'He was very selfless,' said a fellow American fighter injured in the battle that killed Cedric Hamm, speaking to CNN from the US where he is recovering. He asked to be referred to by a pseudonym, Mitchell, for security reasons. Guillaume said foreigners can be declared dead through physical confirmation, like DNA testing on their remains, or through a court ruling, if there is significant evidence of their death. 'It takes time,' she said. In March, her organization had a caseload of 16. It is now dealing with 88 dead or missing foreigners across 18 nationalities – half of them Americans. 'Most of that is missing in action cases,' she said. The true death toll among American volunteers in Ukraine remains unclear, Guillaume said. She believes the rising number of dead and missing is down to foreigners being sent to tough, frontline areas where their prior military experience is needed. 'We find that foreign operators do fill the gaps of very difficult, high-risk, high-reward operations. Their lives and their sacrifice are not wasted.'
