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June 26, 2016 1:55 PM EDT Michael Phelps praised fellow Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky in a new interview published Sunday, comparing the 19-year-old competitor to a younger version of himself. Phelps, who is 30 and a 22-time Olympic medalist, complimented Ledecky’s skill and focus and said the “strong swimmer” is ready to take on the U.S. Olympic trials in Omaha, USA Today Sports reports. “You can tell she is very goal oriented, and for me it brings me back to kind of what I was like way, way, way back in the day,” Phelps told the outlet.

Born. To Patricia Neal, 39, earthy, Oscar-winning Hollywood actress (Hud, In Harm’s Way), and Roald Dahl, 48, British mystery writer: their fifth child, fourth daughter; in Oxford, England. Six months ago, Patricia Neal suffered three paralyzing strokes that threw her into a coma for ten days (TIME, March 26). In a remarkable display of courage, she tackled a tough rehabilitation program, now walks (with the aid of a leg brace), is learning again how to talk.

Trains bound for New Orleans carried many an extra coach last week. Steamships had full lists. Air passengers coasting down toward the city at twilight saw its bright crescent glittering with extraordinary brilliance. Mississippi Valley farmers, fun-hunters from the North, socialites from the South, soldiers, sailors, beggars, gamblers, sportsmen and bootleggers packed together in broad Canal Street, looked up at huge electric signs forming the letters K O M (Krewe of Momus, Son of Night & Lord of Misrule).

Nick Cannon hosted thePeople Magazine Awards a few days ago and his date for the evening was Amber Rose. The two have been reported to be going out with each other since they separated from their different spouses. The duo has however shut down those reports insisting that they just have a working relationship-Nick Cannon is the manager of Amber Rose. According to Amber Rose during her red carpet interview, Nick Cannon didn't decide on who he would take as his date until a few hours prior to the show.

President Barack Obama did his best on Tuesday to remind Wisconsonites why they twice elected him President, only this time he turned on the full court press for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke. “She will be your next governor as long as folks vote,” Obama told an overflow crowd before the event. “We need you to go talk to your friends, your neighbors, you coworkers. You got that cousin on the couch who’s watching the ol’ Packers games, but doesn’t always vote during the midterms.

An ordained minister says the issue of oral sex, should be looked at from 4 cardinal perspectives in other to ascertain whether it is wrong or right. He insists that if oral sex is to be judged right or wrong, it has to pass a self-test. The four self-tests are 1.Is it prohibited in the Bible? ADVERTISEMENT 2.Is it un-natural? 3.Is it unhealthy or harmful? 4.

April 1, 2014 1:55 PM EDT Are you known for wearing nothing but a gym sock in public, whipping out wild bass licks, playing unplugged instruments at the Super Bowl and winning seven Grammy Awards? If you fit that bill, you should definitely write a memoir. Currently, however, there’s only one man who fits that description: Michael Balzary, better known as Flea, the bassist and founding member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

It took long enough to get here, but Star Fox Zero for Nintendo’s beleaguered Wii U finally arrives April 22 with newfangled controls as divisive as expected. It’s better than you’ve heard, and that’s partly because it’s bolder than anyone imagined—just not in the ways Star Fox nostalgists were hoping. The Star Fox games were never much for story: some earnest animals in spaceships battles with geometric enemies in space or on the ground capped by maniacal, bodiless villains.

January 11, 2018 1:59 PM EST Warning: This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Luke Skywalker’s final scene in The Last Jedi saw the Jedi master — or at least a Force projection of him — face off with Kylo Ren on the salt fields of the planet Crait. But instead of wielding the green lightsaber fans became accustomed to in the original trilogy, Luke fought his former apprentice with the blue lightsaber that belonged to his father, Anakin Skywalker, before he became Darth Vader.