The TikTok recounting the moment is captioned, “#greenscreenvideo a year ago today we busted our [peach emoji] #smoothlikenitropepsi,” and has been viewed 517,800 times and liked 39,700 times since it was shared on March 16. According to The Knot’s Real Weddings Study in which around 15,000 couples were surveyed in the United States, the national average price of a wedding in 2021 was $28,000. If you include the engagement ring, the cost rises to $34,000....

I love your character on “Big Love” because she’s sort of a bitch. Do you think she’s a bitch? I do, but I think that’s kind of a simplistic view. I get that a lot in the street—that she’s a bitch—and I think it tells a lot more about the person’s character who’s saying that than about her even. Are you saying that I’m a bitch for saying that? No, it is true that she’s very manipulative and jealous and has lots of traits that you could say are bitchy, but of course playing the character, you have to love her and believe that everything she does is right....

So is this your country album? It’s almost like my country album. Are you going to start wearing a cowboy hat? Didn’t I do that in the ’80s? At least it wasn’t to cover up a bald spot. I was just going to say that. Some of those guys do it for that reason. Like Dwight Yoakam. Yeah. And he wore tighter jeans than I did. Did you have to lie in bed and pull them up?...

Sacramento Superior Court Judge Laurie Earl made the tentative ruling just days after top supporters of the recall filed a lawsuit to block him from using such language. Earl wrote in her decision that Newsom persuasively demonstrated that the recall effort “was clearly spearheaded by Republicans,” noting that the two of the petitioners—Orrin Heatlie and Mike Netter—describe themselves as “lead proponents” of the recall and are registered Republicans. Both sides in the recall effort were invited by California’s secretary of state to submit 500-word arguments that will appear in official voter information guides sent to all registered voters ahead of the September 14 vote....

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Brazil are one of a six-team group competing for the title, with the top four securing a place at the World Cup in South Korea later this year. Olympic gold medal-winning coach Rogerio Micale boasts a talented squad which includes the likes of promising youngsters Lyanco, Felipe Vizeu and David Neres, and is hoping to secure what would be the first Under-20 South American title since Neymar hit nine goals to take the crown in 2011....

Hahn was suspended indefinitely after the game for a making an objectionable remark while updating listeners on the score of the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas. MORE: Maryland’s Mike Locksley reluctantly doused in mayo “Amongst all the illegal aliens in El Paso, it’s UCLA 14 and Pittsburgh six,” Hahn said. Hahn’s suspension was announced less than 90 minutes after the Duke’s Mayo Bowl ended. “Learfield has suspended Wolfpack Sports Network play-by-play announcer Gary Hahn from his agreement indefinitely following comments made during today’s Duke’s Mayo Bowl radio broadcast,” Wolfpack Sports Properties general manager Kyle Winchester said in a statement through the university....

“If you ask me today, right now, my two cents would be it would be impractical to do the game,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Thursday morning, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. ProFootballTalk.com reports that options for the game include playing in Detroit, Toronto or New Jersey. The day before, Cuomo had declared a state of emergency and toured western New York to see the vast damage from storms that dumped six feet of snow on the area, including Ralph Wilson Stadium and the area around it....

Firefighters were called to the Landmark Theatre in Syracuse, New York, at around 7:30 a.m. after employees heard the man screaming for help. Syracuse Fire Deputy Chief John Kane told Syracuse.com that the 39-year-old man, whose name has not been released, got into the building on or around Tuesday. Mike Intaglietta, executive director of the Landmark Theatre, said that employees had noticed the man wandering around the building earlier in the week....

The former England captain has announced the arrival of Lio George Gerrard on social media. Gerrard to take Liverpool U18 post Gerrard is already the proud father of three daughters: Lilly-Ella, Lexie and Lourdes. Keen to stick with the ‘L’ theme, the 36-year-old and his wife Alex appear to have looked to the world of football for a suitable moniker. Lio will have a lot to live up to if he is to follow in his father’s footsteps and carve out a career as a professional footballer....

“I wouldn’t go anywhere near the White House,” the California Democrat said on ABC’s The View. “It’s one of the most dangerous places in the country both in terms of the assault that it makes on truth as well as health.” Pelosi’s comments come amid at least 19 people in Trump’s orbit testing positive for COVID-19 since Thursday, with the latest addition being senior White House adviser Stephen Miller on Tuesday....

The Democrat has previously opposed a ban on the controversial practice, which has come under fire in recent months, arguing the U.S. was a free market. At her weekly press conference on Wednesday, however, Pelosi revealed she had asked the House Administration Committee to produce new stock-trading legislation. She expected “they will have it pretty soon,” she said. In addition, Pelosi said she wanted any stock-trading limitations to also apply to the judicial branch of government, including the Supreme Court....

On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that Biden had obtained 264 electoral votes to President Donald Trump’s 214. A candidate must achieve 270 electoral votes to be declared president. Six states have yet to report a final voting result. The Trump administration has promised to legally challenge the results in some states. Pelosi said in her Wednesday letter that Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris had “made it clear” that the Democratic ticket would have enough electoral votes to win the presidency....

Pelosi, a Democrat, would become the first sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives to travel to Taiwan in 25 years following Republican Newt Gingrich’s visit in 1997 during the Clinton administration. Reports from earlier this year said she’d planned to fly to Taipei in April but postponed her trip after a COVID scare. The Chinese government, which says the island is a part of China, issued stern warnings about Pelosi’s travel plans at the time, which in the end were never officially confirmed....

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARTING SHOT WITH H. ALAN SCOTT ON APPLE PODCASTS OR SPOTIFY How does it feel to be in one of the most anticipated movies of the year? I’m not used to it. It feels very outside of my comfort zone. I won’t lie to you. Part of me always likes to approach every project like it’s an indie, this was very hard for me to pretend like it was....

In the past few days, the two agencies have been monitoring the hurricane, providing fascinating insights into the storm’s terrifying power. American astronaut Christina Koch—who is currently resident on the International Space Station (ISS)—captured these photos from an altitude of around 250 miles above the Earth early on Monday morning, revealing the vast scale of the storm as it battered the Bahamas. The image below shows infrared observations collected by the NOAA-20 satellite, which circles our planet from pole-to-pole, crossing the equator about 14 times every day....

In a mission by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope will launch from the coast of French Guiana in South America. The $10 billion, 7-ton telescope will have to be folded into the nose cone of a rocket. It will then unfold as it heads to its destination. Upon arrival, it is supposed to keep with Earth’s orbit around the sun, constantly staying on the planet’s nightside....

The photo of the stringy object (seen below), nestled in the sand between some unassuming Martian rocks, was taken by Perseverance on July 12, 2022, the 495th day of the rover’s ongoing mission to study the red planet. The photo can be seen below, in addition to another image taken from a different vantage point that helps convey the scale of the object as it sits directly beneath Perseverance, close to its wheels....

The Associated Press reported that NASA is working with U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to create the power source, independent from the sun, for missions to the moon by the end of the decade. “Providing a reliable, high-power system on the moon is a vital next step in human space exploration, and achieving it is within our grasp,” Sebastian Corbisiero, the Fission Surface Power Project lead at the lab, said in a statement....