The most “prolific” White House leakers will impersonate each other so they won’t be suspected of leaking, according to Axios. The Daily Beast also confirmed the use of the tactic among leakers. “To cover my tracks, I usually pay attention to other staffers’ idioms and use that in my background quotes. That throws the scent off me,” one White House source told the site. Other leakers were quoted as saying they shared information with reporters as an easy way to settle scores within the White House, a way to act out on “personal vendettas,” and out of sheer frustration with the leadership. They also said there was a strategic element involved—whether it be getting an “accurate record of what’s really going on in the White House” out to the public, to “drive narrative,” or to give them an opportunity to win a policy debate. “By leaking the decision, the loser gets one last chance to kill it with blowback from the public, Congress or even the President,” a source said.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday he has instructed his Commerce Department to help get a Chinese telecommunications company "back into business" after the U.S. government cut off access to its American suppliers. At issue is that department's move last month to block the ZTE Corp., a major supplier of telecoms networks and smartphones based in southern China, from importing American components for seven years. The U.S. accused ZTE of misleading American regulators after it settled charges of violating sanctions against North Korea and Iran. ZTE, which has more than 70,000 employees and has supplied networks or equipment to some of the world's biggest telecoms companies, said in early May that it had halted its main operations as a result of the department's "denial order." Trump, who has taken a hard line on trade and technology issues with Beijing, tweeted on Sunday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping "are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!" ZTE has asked the department to suspend the seven-year ban on doing business with U.S. technology exporters. By cutting off access to U.S. suppliers of essential components such as microchips, the ban threatens ZTE's existence, the company has said. During recent trade meetings in Beijing, Chinese officials said they raised their objections to ZTE's punishment with the American delegation, which they said agreed to report them to Trump. The U.S. imposed the penalty after discovering that Shenzhen-based ZTE, which had paid a $1.2 billion fine in the case, had failed to discipline employees involved and paid them bonuses instead.

All Erika Zak wants to do is play with her daughter on the playground. Take her to the zoo. Walk her to school. She's never been able to be the mother she longs to be. At 38, Erika is dying. Her battle to live began almost as soon as her daughter, Loïe, was born four years ago, when Erika was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic colon cancer that had spread to her liver. The cancer was removed from her colon and, her doctors say, she responded well to treatment. But a microwave ablation surgery last year to remove two tumors from her liver went terribly wrong, leaving a fist-sized hole in her liver and destroying her bile ducts. Every day since has been a fight to survive. She's been hospitalized 19 times in Oregon over the last 12 months for infections, bleeding and an array of other health issues. She has high blood pressure in her liver, which backs up the veins in her esophagus and can be catastrophic. Her surgical oncologist constantly worries she will fall ill with a bad infection and die. "Every time she calls me and has a fever and some bleeding, we all hold our breath, worried: Will this be the time Erika bleeds to death?" says Dr. Skye Mayo, her surgical oncologist at Oregon Health & Science University. "This is kind of the end game of what liver failure looks like." Erika and Scott Powers met in college while they were both in school in Rhode Island. More than 100 doctors at three of the nation's top medical centers have weighed in on her case, which is complex and exceedingly rare. Their conclusion: The only way to save Erika's life is to give her a new liver. After weeks of evaluation at the Cleveland Clinic in December and January, Erika finally got her big break. On February 2, doctors there approved putting her on the wait list for a liver transplant. The news changed everything. Erika finally had hope. Around the house, 4-year-old Loïe would say, "Mommy, when you get a new liver, can you push me in the swing?" But Erika hit an immediate wall. Her insurer, UnitedHealthcare, denied coverage for the transplant, saying it would not be a "promising treatment." She appealed and was rejected again. The mom who desperately wanted to live looked into Oregon's Death with Dignity program. Erika had written a letter to her daughter months ago to be read after she died. Now she worried Loïe might receive it sooner than Mom had planned: Dear Loïe, If you're reading this, I'm probably not on this earth anymore. So please remember this: I am with you always; even if you can no longer see my face or feel my hands through your hair. I am with you when you look up to the sky and see tiny birds flying free or the stars twinkling in your eyes. I am with you when you feel a perfect, warm breeze upon your sweet face. Erika wasn't going to give up. Her little girl with bright blue eyes was a constant reminder of all that is precious. Outraged and heartbroken, Erika wrote a four-page letter to the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare (UHC), giving him a piece of her mind about what she felt was a rigged review process, riddled with errors, that determined her life wasn't worth saving. Weeks passed until the company reached a decision. Despite her plea, the answer was the same: Denied. Then, last week, an amazing thing happened. 'My life hangs in the balance' If it's true that opening your heart, revealing your feelings, unleashes freedom and makes you whole, Erika turned to one of the things she loves most in an effort to save her life. Writing. It was early April. She sat at her computer, her keyboard clacking. She wasn't going to leave her husband, Scott Powers, and their daughter Loïe behind without trying her damnedest to stay on this Earth for as long as possible. There was too much at stake. UnitedHealthcare had overruled her treating physicians and denied the transplant, saying "unproven health services is not a covered benefit." The words burned, like chemo. Her first appeal went nowhere, and she felt trapped in a labyrinth of red tape. The young mother — frail from having lost 20 pounds in the past year, her skin and eyes yellow from jaundice — felt the only way to get a new liver was to plead her case directly to the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, David Wichmann. Her frame may be tiny, but don't mistake that for weakness. She is one of the strongest women you will ever meet. As she typed, Erika bared her soul. Of longing to live. Of seeing her daughter grow up. Of the need for "my only option," a liver transplant. "Given that my life hangs in the balance based on this review," she wrote, "it is unconscionable that it has not been undertaken with the level of competence and professionalism anyone would expect of UHC." She blasted what she called the "shockingly incompetent manner" in which the country's largest insurance company handled her case. She outlined what she described as a series of errors made in the review process — ranging from UHC saying her liver failure stems from "chemotherapy toxicity" to an insurance medical director who erroneously said she had "life-threatening lesions." "Neither are true," she wrote Wichmann. "(UHC's) handling of my case has been plagued by unnecessary delays, incomplete responses, inept scheduling, contradictory statements, and worst of all repeated factual errors regarding my medical history. "Most importantly, decisions based on inaccurate information and analysis have already delayed my listing and transplant two months." One review doctor noted she had a "9cm tumor" in her liver, she wrote, apparently unaware that was actually the hole from the ablation surgery resulting in her chronic liver failure. "I have been doing every single thing I possibly can do to stay alive for these past four years, scratching and clawing by day and praying every night an opportunity like this would come along," Erika wrote. "Now, when the promise of my long-term survival is actually greatest, I need UHC's support more than ever." She sent the letter via FedEx on April 11. Her concerns were valid. Her transplant team at the Cleveland Clinic made clear to UHC's appeals unit the primary cause of her liver failure was not from chemo toxicity or cancer, but instead was the result of "a consequence of complications following microwave ablation." "Of note, what mainly drives the indication of liver transplantation in this case is liver failure and NOT liver metastases from colorectal cancer, which makes the patient's post-transplant oncologic outcome more encouraging," wrote Dr. Federico Aucejo, the director of the Cleveland Clinic's Liver Cancer Program, in an appeal on Erika's behalf on March 6. He did note that she had some chemotoxicity, which was a secondary cause of liver failure. "The opinion of the experienced Cleveland Clinic multidisciplinary liver transplant committee (is) that liver transplantation would prolong this young patient's life substantially, and that there is NO other treatment alternative that could match this outcome at this point in time." Two days after sending her letter, Erika and her husband were told the UHC executive team had received it and that her case was undergoing further review. Several times, the family said it was told a decision would be made by a certain date; those dates came and went without a decision. As time wore on, Erika grew ill with a high fever and was hospitalized for several days. It was the fifth time she'd been admitted since February 2, the day Cleveland Clinic doctors approved her for a transplant. On Instagram, she posted an illustration with the words "waiting, waiting, waiting" on a pink backdrop with black crosses. "Waiting for insurance to approve the only thing that will save me: a liver," she wrote. "Waiting for my liver to fail completely; waiting to die. Waiting to be saved." 'Wait or die' More than 100,000 Americans are on wait lists for organ transplants, and every hour someone dies while waiting for the life-saving surgery, said Dr. Andrew Cameron, the chief of transplant surgery at Johns Hopkins and the surgical director of its liver transplant program. For liver transplants, 20,000 Americans are on the wait list and only 7,000 will receive a new liver in 2018, according to Cameron, who is not connected to Erika's case. "The lucky few undergo a transformative life-saving procedure," he said. "Those who don't get that lottery ticket wait or die." Transplant teams at hospitals spend hours upon hours — months even — assessing and debating whether a patient is a good candidate for a transplant, Cameron said, typically with more than a dozen doctors weighing in. It is deeply disturbing, he said, when an insurance company overrules the "decision made by a thoughtful, careful transplant team to utilize one of society's limited resources — that precious gift to save somebody's life." The negotiated cost for a liver transplant for an insurance company is roughly $200,000, Cameron said, adding it is "exceedingly rare" for an insurer to deny a transplant. "That is highly unusual and highly undesirable," Cameron told CNN. In Cleveland, Dr. Aucejo is trailblazing the field for patients like Erika, having performed the only two transplants in America this century on people suffering from what is called unresectable metastasis in the liver from colorectal cancer. It's groundbreaking and could prove transformative. "I hope that we can achieve good results and set precedent," he said. When you're trying such a new approach, Dr. Aucejo said, it can be difficult getting insurers to agree to treatment and he wished getting them aboard could be done "in a more expeditious way." He explained that in the late 1980s and 1990s, surgeons tried transplants on patients like Erika with "unresectable metastasis in the liver from colorectal cancer," but the "outcomes were not good." Only 18% of the patients lived past five years, so the transplants were stopped, Dr. Aucejo said. But, he emphasized, most of the bad outcomes were the result of technical complications and post-transplant management, not from the cancer returning. The field of transplants has greatly improved in the decades since, he said. Doctors in Europe, primarily in Norway, have begun changing the field, he said, finding that about 50-60% of patients with Erika's condition survive a transplant past five years. That is a substantial difference, he said. Dr. Mayo, Erika's surgical oncologist in Oregon, said no one at the insurance company reached out to him during the review process "to help explain the facts of her case." That is troubling, he said, especially when it's one of the most complicated cases a doctor will ever see. "It is frustrating when it seems that the facts aren't all being considered," Dr. Mayo said. "Her life now is not limited by her cancer," he said. "It's limited by the fact she will go into liver failure and die within the next several months if she doesn't have a liver transplant." When opposites attract Erika was in the prime of her life. At 34, she'd given birth to her first and only child, Loïe, the little girl who Mom calls "my tiniest, most amazing companion." She'd been married to the love of her life for four years. She and Scott met in 1998 when he was at Brown University and she was at the Rhode Island School of Design, both in Providence. The two were polar opposites. He was the MVP of Brown's soccer team and majored in economics. She was into the arts and majored in textile design. He was from the tightly wound East Coast, she from the free-wheeling West Coast. The connection wasn't immediate, so Erika had a mutual friend slip a tiny drawing to Scott. It contained her phone number; he called it. Soon they clicked. Scott made her laugh and feel beautiful. Erika saw in him someone who was kind and devoted; in her, he found the woman who he'd always searched for, with a captivating sense of humor and a sailor's mouth. They tied the knot on Halloween in 2009 in the wine country of Healdsburg, California. Her career was taking off, too. She was working for Old Navy, choosing and designing the fabrics, prints and plaids for the company's baby and toddler division. While she was pregnant, she was promoted to senior textile designer. "It was all coming together," she wrote on her blog. "And then, like that, my foundation crumbled." During the final trimester of her pregnancy, she'd experienced pain in her stomach. It was thought to be nothing more than part of the difficulties of pregnancy. But in the weeks after delivery, the pain grew excruciating and she felt a lump on her side. On April 8, 2014, she received the awful news — that she had stage 4 metastatic colon cancer that had spread to her liver. Her daughter was just 3 months old. "Worst Day Ever" read the headline of her blog. She had survived cancer once before. At 28, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Her thyroid was removed, and life continued as normal. It was nothing close to a stage 4 diagnosis. In the years after her colon cancer diagnosis, she blogged about most everything. Of losing her father to Alzheimer's at age 83. Of the pain over two friends' deaths — including an oncologist she'd met in a cancer support group. "Have you ever cried and screamed so hard that the blood vessels around your eyes burst?" she wrote. In her blog posts, she was brutally honest about her cancer and the effects of chemotherapy. She'd sit on the shower floor in a fetal position, screaming and sobbing. It was "anguish and pain and longing for my former life and utter disbelief for the war my body was waging on itself," she blogged. Her fingertips felt like they had been "burned on a hot pan most of the time." Her hands cramped into weird, contorted positions. Her hair was dry and brittle, like straw. Her energy was so drained she felt twice her age. As a teen, she'd suffered debilitating depression and anxiety that was so bad at times, she said, "I hoped that I could just disappear forever." "It's funny how afraid I am of that now: disappearing. How much I want to live. How important it feels to be here," she wrote on December 1, 2016, two and half years into her cancer battle. She would face multiple surgeries and undergo more than 70 rounds of chemo. On February 28, 2017, she wrote: "This is chemo day. Scream in your pillow day. Hide in the shower day. Lie to your baby day. Tell her you're going to work day. Vials and vials of blood day. Tell your doctor you're angry day. Make your husband cry day. Poison your body day." On another day, she penned: "Cancer is a slow form of torture. It strips you of dignity; of peace of mind; of stability." On April 4, 2017, nearly three years to the day of her diagnosis, she and her daughter had a soul-crushing conversation. The cancer had been eradicated from her colon shortly after the diagnosis, but it remained in her liver. "Mommy, are you going to last?" Loïe asked. "What do you mean, Loïe?" "Will you be here forever and ever?" the girl asked. "I really don't know, babe." Six days later, Erika underwent the ablation surgery at a facility in New York to target two small tumors on her liver. Something went wrong. She ended up with the hole in her liver. To save her life, surgeons had to block off the veins and arteries going to her liver. The entire central part of her liver died, Dr. Mayo said. Two bags are now attached to her abdomen to drain the bile. With bile going immediately outside her body, instead of through the liver and her body, Erika was susceptible to extreme sickness and potential fatal bleeds. "All of those things culminated in what is now liver failure for her," Dr. Mayo said. "She's in this cycle right now where she's losing on a daily basis some of her body's most vital fluids." The cancer in her liver, meanwhile, was progressing on a path, he said, where "she would die of cancer." She could no longer tolerate any standard form of chemo treatment. Her doctors in Oregon last fall tried one last treatment to fend off her cancer: a groundbreaking immunotherapy cancer drug called pembrolizumab, known by its brand name Keytruda. Her sky-high tumor marker levels fell to normal. "She had an incredible response to this new drug," Dr. Mayo said. "I think all of the cancer remaining in her body is dead at this point. What she will die of is liver failure." With a new liver, he said, her problems with bleeding and high blood pressure could be resolved. Her jaundice would be gone, too. But transplant surgery is not without major risks. Most of those who've received a transplant with unresectable metastasis in the liver from colorectal cancer, Cleveland's Dr. Aucejo said, experience a recurrence of cancer within 12 months. Most of the cancers that return can be treated with standard care, like chemotherapy or surgery, he said, profoundly prolonging their lives. For a small subset of patients, though, the cancer comes back aggressively and it's not treatable with chemo or surgery, he said. "Unfortunately in that subset of patients, the survival is more dismal." While it's impossible to predict the outcome, he said, Erika shows "features that may do well." There's no evidence cancer has spread beyond her liver, he said. Plus, patients who had their colon cancer removed two years or more before the transplant, Dr. Aucejo said, tend do well. Erika had the cancerous portion of her colon removed in 2014: "That's a good indicator." Dr. Aucejo also emphasized the criteria for transplant qualification is stringent and that Erika shows promise. "We're talking about distributing limited organs," he said. "Again, we have to be very careful that we're not giving organs to people who are not going to benefit from it when there's people dying with standard indications because there's not enough organs." 'This is so messed up' In the days and weeks after Erika fired off her letter to the CEO, her husband, Scott, worked the phones. He felt lost in an endless loop of delays and broken promises as to when the insurer would reach its decision. Finally, they were told a decision would come May 2. Erika couldn't sleep the night before. She pulled out her phone and recorded a message, weeping for much of the video. "My life is literally in their hands, and every day I feel myself kind of fading away more and more," she says. "I don't want to leave. I don't want to die." The next day came. Each minute crept by. Shortly after 2 p.m., Scott's phone rang. It was their point of contact with UnitedHealthcare. He had crushing news: Denied. He explained Erika's case was sent back to the three reviewing doctors. One of them, he said, "changed his decision from 'not promising' to 'promising.'" However, the other two doctors ruled the transplant not to be promising: "The bottom line is they're upholding that decision." The doctor who sided in favor of the transplant, their UHC contact told them, was the only one of the three who talked directly with her transplant surgeon. Scott grew furious. "Honestly, you know that is messed up," he said. "I don't know who you've got to go to, but I would go to someone now and have someone call us, because this is so messed up." Scott pressed for more information. He got little. "Scott, I know what you've been through," the UHC rep told him. "I know what you're going through." Erika sat silently for the first 10 minutes of the conservation, absorbing the news and what it meant for her fate. But at those words, it was time to speak up. "Hey!" she shouted. "This is Erika, and you've never heard from me before. You don't know what we're going through. Because I'm dying." Through tears, she said, "I need a liver transplant, and I need it now." The UHC rep confided he "was not hoping for this outcome. I was hoping that I'd have good news." He suggested Erika and Scott fax over any new information they thought might be relevant. He also acknowledged the delays in recent weeks were not in keeping with the company's policies. "Someone needs to be accountable for this," he said. "You know, why, when we have these guidelines in place, did we not follow them? "That needs to be looked into," he said, adding, "I'm not trying to sweep anything under the rug." He apologized for having to be the bearer of bad news, saying his goal had been to end the day on a positive note. "Like I said, I wish I had better news." After more than 30 minutes, he ended with: "Have a good night, OK." Not the words the couple wanted to hear. Erika went numb. Heartbroken and angry didn't even begin to describe her feelings. Scott felt equally distraught. "I just want her to get a liver," he said. "She deserves that." The CEO never responded — not by email, phone or letter. A sudden change Five days later, on Monday, May 7, a surprise call came. Erika and Scott were preparing Loïe for school when Scott's phone rang. They had spent the weekend trying to figure out their next move, while trying not to focus too much on when Erika might need Death with Dignity. They knew they had one appeal left, and they didn't want to blow it. They hadn't sent any new information since the last call. It was their UHC rep on the phone. This time, he had good news: The insurer would cover Erika's transplant. When Scott heard she'd been approved, he jumped up and down. Erika watched him from across the room. There was no explanation for the change. They were told to focus on Erika's health and next steps. Erika called her mother, who unleashed a guttural scream at work. Dr. Mayo was preparing for surgery when he took Scott's call. Elation spread across the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University where doctors, nurses and staff celebrated. In Cleveland, Dr. Aucejo heard the welcome news from his transplant coordinator. He'd not spoken with anyone at UHC about the case in the five days since the previous denial. "They had decided on their own. We hadn't gotten back to them," he said. "I'm happy they ended up sharing our vision." I had been speaking with Erika and Scott for this story over the last month and had reviewed her medical records extensively. During the May 2 phone call in which Erika was told her transplant had been denied, Scott told the UHC rep that the couple had been speaking with a member of the national news media. I was on a flight to Oregon when they received the joyous news. "UHC just called and approved Erika. Unreal. Know you're in flight but call whenever," Scott texted. When we met a couple hours later, Erika's emotions were still raw. She thought this would be her last Mother's Day. Now, suddenly, she has hope for more. Glancing at her daughter and husband, Erika broke down in tears. "I can't imagine not being here," she said. "It's not because I keep the family together or anything. It's just the love I have for them." "Mommy, why are you crying?" Loïe said. "I'm crying because I love you." Loïe placed her fingers in her mother's right hand. "Love you," Loïe said. As she and Loïe locked hands, the tattoo on Erika's wrist displayed a fitting message: "Be brave." Epilogue UnitedHealthcare declined to answer CNN's questions about the handling of Erika's case, except to issue this one-sentence statement: "We had on-going conversations with her husband and contacted him as soon as the decision was made to approve the transplant request." Even after the approval, Erika said she still wanted to move forward with the story, to speak up for others who've experienced the pain of similar denials. To let them know they're not alone. To encourage them to be their own best advocates. It can mean the difference between life and death. "No one should have to fight and work that hard," she said, "especially when I have all these doctors saying it will save my life." Since the approval, the family has been preparing to move to Cleveland for Erika's surgery and recovery at the Cleveland Clinic. Erika was officially notified Friday morning she was placed on the liver transplant wait list. It's impossible to know how long the family will be in Cleveland or when the transplant will occur. Transplant candidates are given what is known as a "MELD score," ranging from 6 to 40. Those closest to 40 are given the highest priority. Erika's MELD score has hovered around 22. If her score is still in that range, Dr. Aucejo said, her transplant could be a few months away. "But this varies a lot," he said. "There are many variables at play here." A patient for a liver transplant, he said, is typically hospitalized 7 to 10 days for the procedure, with a recovery time of 4 to 8 weeks before the patient resumes normal activities. Would Erika have had the transplant by now if the surgery had been approved in February? "That is very speculative, at the least," Dr. Aucejo said. "I couldn't say that." He chose his words carefully, saying it's a "complex dynamic" between hospitals and insurance companies and he doesn't want to upset that balance. "She's been approved and that's what matters — and hopefully we can move forward with her transplant." Dr. Aucejo said he can somewhat understand the insurance company's initial reluctance at coverage because the procedure is so rare for patients with Erika's condition. "It's a new territory," he told CNN. "I can't blame anybody." If Erika receives her transplant and succeeds, Dr. Aucejo said, she could help set precedent for many others down the road.

Percy Ronald Chess left home for good 20 years ago and made his way across America. He had served in the Air Force in the early 1970s, then rejoined relatives in Miami. But he struggled to hold a job, and his family believes he suffered from mental illness. At first he’d wander for weeks or months. But one day he didn’t come back. Over the years, Chess’s relatives scoured the Internet, tracking his travels through his arrest record of mostly petty crimes of loitering, prowling, stealing and receiving stolen property. They found signs he’d been in Florida, Alabama, Washington, Tennessee. Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia. They think Chess hitchhiked and earned a few dollars fixing cars and broken machines — skills he learned as a child. They tried to find him, to help him, but they were never able to catch up. His story came to a sad end on March 31, when a tourist in a paddle boat found his body floating in the Tidal Basin near the Jefferson Memorial. It took authorities two weeks to find his family. Chess was 65. D.C. police do not suspect foul play; his cause of death is pending. Chess’s family plans to bury him Tuesday at Georgia National Cemetery for veterans, outside Atlanta, where several of his relatives now live. “In different times and different circumstances, he could have had a really great life,” said his niece, Margaret Smith-Williams, 33, who lives in Miami and last saw her uncle when she was 13. “You don’t want your loved ones to pass away alone.” An obituary written by his family notes that Chess was received “with much excitement and great joy” when he was born in Miami on Aug. 21, 1952. Chess’s sudden death, his obituary says, “is most disquieting and without answers.” The family did not try to hide Chess’s troubles. They wrote that the man who had once coveted family and church had returned from military service a recluse, disappearing for long spells even as his parents kept a room for him. Not much is known about his military service, but records indicate he was never deployed overseas. “Percy lived his life out in the open,” the obituary says, “sometimes alone and sometimes sleeping in the rough terrors and fierce weather of the night. . . .We can only speculate what life may have been for Percy from day-to-day.” Relatives said they prefer to recall Chess as a youth — a boy who looked after his younger sister and an enterprising teen who would take the toaster apart and put it back together again. He read books on engineering, fixed his neighbor’s cars. Chess also set out to “master the game that matched his name,” said Smith-Williams, his niece. He spent hours studying strategy plotting moves far ahead in the game. His family said he used “his quick wit and charming savvy” to draw competitors into what he called “his game.” His family described him as a “cool dresser” who is “remembered for having ‘swag’ even before any of us knew what ‘swag’ meant.” Chess enlisted in the Air Force in May 1971 at the age of 19 after he had graduated from high school in Miami. What happened during those years remains a mystery to his family. From his discharge notice, it appears Chess never left the United States, although he served during the final years of the Vietnam War. The one-page form the Air Force provided his family after his death lists his service time as two years, eight months and 18 days, none overseas. It notes that Chess served in an engineering division as a tractor operator. He was honorably discharged in February 1974 from McChord Air Force Base, now part of Joint Base Lewis-McChord outside Tacoma, Wash. He went back to his family home in Miami, but seemed different. Relatives said he appeared to be suffering from mental illness, although they can’t recall a diagnosis. “He was very secluded,” said one of his sisters, Elouise Chess Williams, who lives in Atlanta. “It was as if he was in a totally different world.” He retreated to his room for dinner, eating whatever was served as long as it came with ketchup. He never married, and had no children. Over the next 20 years, he often left for weeks, sometimes months, but would return, sometimes with bruises from being beaten or bitten by dogs. He hitchhiked, carrying a mat to sleep on and a baseball bat. He went with Williams when she moved to South Carolina. He did odd jobs but couldn’t keep them. His father, retired from a gas company, started a yard service that could have meant steady work for Chess. But by then Chess was drinking and refusing to take his medication. He emerged from his room only at night. He walked away from programs his family had enrolled him in to help. His sister said she paid $500 to put him in a mental health facility but he didn’t stay long. “He would come out and say we were the ones who were crazy, he wasn’t,” Williams said. One day 20 years ago, Chess left. In the years that followed, if a family member lived close to a police station or a courthouse where they thought he might be, they’d speed over in hopes of finding him. They never did. One cousin, learning he had just been released from a jail in Jacksonville, Fla., drove around the city all night, but with no luck. One of Chess’s brothers is convinced he saw Chess walking along a highway in Atlanta, but by the time he reached the next exit and turned around, the man was gone. In mid-April, one of Chess’s brothers in Florida got a call from the police in Fort Lauderdale, who had been contacted by the police in the District. They had located Percy Chess. Though not an unexpected ending, it was still tragic. “We’re talking over 40 years of him coming and going, and us really wondering if he’s dead or alive,” said his sister, Williams. “In one way it’s a relief. But it’s sad because he was so much a part of us.”

As volcanic eruptions spew toxic gas into the air, some residents of Hawaii's Big Island are frantically searching for masks for protection. But the Hawaii Department of Health says "no commercial mask sold in stores" would actually do residents any good. "I'm just worried about, you know, the air quality," resident Clayton Thomas told CNN affiliate KHNL/KGMB. He wanted to get a mask for his nephew, who has asthma, but went to five different stores with no luck. By Sunday afternoon, 17 volcanic fissures had opened, pouring lava into the area, according to the Hawaii County Civil Defense Emergency System. And one of the biggest health and safety concerns is the sulfur dioxide in the "vog," or volcanic smog, coming from the vents. At high concentrations, vog can cause headaches and irritation to the lungs and eyes, according to the University of Hawaii at Hilo. It can induce asthma attacks and cause shortness of breath or other respiratory problems. That's why Myke Metcalf sold out of all his protective masks within 15 minutes of opening his store on Friday, according to KHNL/KGMB. He had lines of people wrapped around his shop, Pahoa Auto Parts, to buy the masks, which he's selling at cost. "Some people are just so tired of hearing 'no' that they just turn around and walk away," he said. "Some people say, 'Well just sell me some for my kids, I don't need one for myself.'" He wants the government to step in and help, the local station reported. But according to the Hawaii Department of Health, the masks — particularly the common N-95 or other dust masks — wouldn't help protect residents against sulfur dioxide anyway. In a statement earlier this month, the department cautioned consumers, saying "no mask sold in stores provides protection from the extremely dangerous volcanic gases that are being released from the current volcanic eruption." Even respirators and gas masks aren't recommended by health officials for use by the general public, in part because proper use of respirators requires correct filters and training to ensure proper fitting and use, according to the International Volcanic Health Hazard Network, Hawaii Department of Health and the US Geological Survey. The masks "don't work against gases," Hawaii County Mayor Harry Kim said on Twitter Sunday. "Please let your 'ohana (family) know that the best thing to do is to avoid the gases by staying indoors with your windows shut, or by vacating the area when you perceive the gas emissions are affecting your breathing," he wrote. Residents should simply stay away, the Department of Health says. "The best way to protect yourself and your family from the extremely dangerous volcanic gases is to leave the immediate area of the volcano defined by the police and fire department," it said in a statement.

The Broward County, Fla., school district's repeated, emphatic - and it turns out, false - statements that Nikolas Cruz had not been in a controversial disciplinary program fit a pattern of an institution on the defense and under siege. Facing significant legal and political exposure over the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the district has tried to keep information from the public and put out untrue and misleading statements, frustrating parents who say this is the time for maximum transparency. The district is fighting in court against the release of school surveillance video. It flatly refused to provide any records regarding the shooting to the news media, in a possible violation of the state's open-records law. Superintendent Robert Runcie has blocked critics, including parents, from his Twitter account. More than two months after the shooting, a Broward sheriff's detective told a state commission on school safety that he was still waiting for the district to provide all of Cruz's disciplinary records. The worst came last week, when Runcie acknowledged that his forceful denials that Cruz had been involved in the Promise program, which is intended to provide an alternative to the arrest of students for minor offenses, were wrong. "It would appear that the district is more interested in protecting their programs than they are the students and teachers in our schools," said Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter, Alaina, was killed by Cruz during his rampage through the school. "As a father, I would ask the district to please be completely transparent so we can make sure this doesn't happen to any other children in any other schools in Florida." School district spokeswoman Tracy Clark said the district has provided accurate information to investigators, the press and the public as fast as possible and "any suggestion that the district is not being forthcoming is either based on a misunderstanding or misinformation." "The district continues to focus on responding in a timely and accurate manner to the unprecedented number of public records requests, media requests and subpoenas related to the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School," she said in an email. "In addition, we have coordinated numerous interviews with employees as part of the various ongoing investigations. Both the State Attorney's Office, through the Broward Sheriff's Office, and the Public Defender's Office have been given complete copies of the records related to Nikolas Cruz that have been gathered to date." Andrew Pollack, whose daughter Meadow was killed in the shooting, said he was surprised to learn that the district still has not provided all of Cruz's records to investigators. At a meeting of the state commission set up after the shooting to improve school safety, Pollack asked a Broward sheriff's detective whether all of the records had been provided. "I believe that some of the items we are seeking to get from the school board, we have received some," Detective Zachary Scott said. "But I do not believe we've received everything yet." "It caught us all off guard," Pollack said in an interview last week. "We didn't believe it. It's past two months now already. A lot of the people on the committee couldn't believe it." From the school district, Pollack said, "there's no honesty at all." Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright declined to say whether the school district has supplied the records and whether it is cooperating with the investigation. School district spokeswoman Clark said the district provided investigators with all of the records it could find so far. Although the Broward Sheriff's Office has not produced every record requested by the news media, the agency has released dozens of documents, including reports of incidents at Cruz's home and documents on its own flawed response. But the school district has issued a blanket refusal to release any documents, including emails about the shooting among the district's leadership and notices of intent to sue by victims and their families, despite Florida's broad public records law. The school district, joined by the Broward Sheriff's Office, tried to stop the release to the media of surveillance video from the school. The district's lawyers argued in court that the videos would threaten school security by revealing blind spots in the surveillance system. The district partially dropped its opposition after all sides agreed to an initial release of videos that showed the inaction of a Broward sheriff's deputy who resigned after the incident. And the district lost in court when Broward Circuit Judge Jeffrey R. Levenson ordered the release of more videos, saying any "potential harm" to the school's security system was "outweighed by the strong public interest in disclosure." The school district, along with the state attorney's office, is appealing. Runcie's Twitter account contains fewer critics of the district, now that he's blocked several of them. "He blocked me," Diana Alvarez, whose son is a 10-grader in the Broward system and who had served as an elementary school PTA president, posted on Twitter. "NOT good to block a parent in your district." Among others shut out of Runcie's account was Tim Sternberg, a former district administrator who had run the Promise program before resigning a year ago. Now a critic of how the district runs the program, he was blocked last month. Runcie said he won't tolerate "profanity, hate speech or false information" on his Twitter account. "Negative commentary from constituents is part of a public official's job," he said in a statement emailed to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. "However, the heightened political climate our community is currently experiencing has inspired some individuals to cross a threshold in terms of vitriol." Questions about the Promise program had been a source of frustration for district officials, as well as students and parents. Many felt that the program had been unfairly seized upon as a distraction by conservative opponents of gun control, who preferred to focus on blundering by the district and the sheriff's office. At a Feb. 28 news conference, Runcie insisted that Cruz had no connection to the program. "This particular individual was never a participant in the Promise program. He wasn't eligible for it," Runcie said. "There's no connection between Cruz and the district's Promise program." In a March 24 column in the Sun Sentinel, Runcie called the reports of a Promise connection to Cruz "fake news," lumping them with the false charges that Stoneman Douglas survivors were "crisis actors." Later the standard answer developed a nuance, with Runcie claiming that Cruz had not been in the program "while in high school." "Once he said that comment, I knew the guy was lying and being deceitful," Pollack said. "Once he shaded it that way, I knew it." County Commissioner Michael Udine, a former mayor of Parkland, said the hedged responses from the district are a disservice to the community. "People want the whole truth, they want the whole truth quickly and they want the complete truth out in the open," he said. "Everything's coming out at some point. The half-answers that have come out - whether he was in the Promise program at one time or not completely in the program - is not the right way to handle it. Full and complete transparency is what's called for here."

Video game dads might be all the rage in gaming of late, but there are plenty of great female characters as well. Seeing how it's Mother's Day in the United States, it only seems natural to shine the spotlight on one of them. Out of all of the iconic digital moms, Life is Strange's Joyce Price might just be the best. While teenage antics and complicated relationships drive the drama of Dontnod Entertainment's Life is Strange, it's a mother's warmth that provides the heart. Joyce is the mother of Chloe Price, who serves as a crucial character in both the 2015 original and its recent prequel, Before the Storm. At first, they seem like tonal opposites; Chloe is a rambunctious teenager rebelling against societal norms, while Joyce is the kind diner worker that exemplifies small town kindness. Over time, though, it's shown that both mother and daughter share a strong moral compass, and a drive to do what's right for their loved ones. The maternal relationship between Joyce and Chloe is one of the most interesting aspects of Life is Strange. Flashbacks and objects found around the Price household paint a portrait of the two being incredibly close until the tragic death of Chloe's father, William. This serves as a dividing point, as Chloe has never been able to move past the tragedy, and part of her begins to resent her mother for moving on and marrying her often misunderstood stepfather, David. Despite these struggles, and having to deal with her own heartbreak, Joyce always does her best to stay composed in order to keep the household together. This isn't an easy task, as Chloe begins to get into recreational drugs and goes from a great student to a trouble child that gets expelled from school. Her strength as both a woman and mother is shown as she constantly serves as the mediator between David and Chloe, and she always shows understanding towards her daughter acting out when it'd be so much easier to simply cast blame towards Chloe's rash actions. Joyce Price shows truly unconditional love and an incredible spirit to keep everything together after the death of her husband. She always has the best in mind for her daughter, and she never even thinks of giving up on Chloe. These qualities not only give her depth and make her a character worth celebrating, but they also indisputably earn Joyce a place as one of the best video game moms.

The season finale of Young Sheldon dropped an exciting reveal for fans of The Big Bang Theory, as Sheldon (played by Iain Armitage in the series, with Jim Parsons providing narration) revealed in a voiceover that he eventually goes on to have children. This came immediately in the wake of The Big Bang Theory's season 11 finale, in which Sheldon finally married his long-time girlfriend, Amy (Mayim Bialik). We knew early on that Young Sheldon would have strong links to The Big Bang Theory, with showrunner Chuck Lorre saying last year that "the stories we tell on Young Sheldon can echo on The Big Bang Theory... We’re definitely discussing the ripple effect that the shows can have going forward in time." So far Young Sheldon has explained some of the older Sheldon's quirks, like where the "Soft Kitty" song comes from, but now the prequel series has revealed where the original show could be heading next. In Young Sheldon's season 1 finale, Sheldon's grandmother, Meemaw (Annie Potts), became annoyed by her grandson's interference in her relationship with Dr. John Sturgis (Wallace Shawn), and insisted on laying down some "ground rules" for both Sheldon and John. After hearing some of her demands, John says, "This list is getting long, maybe we should write it down." An idea occurs to Sheldon, and in voiceover Parsons says, "In that moment, I had an epiphany. I could draw up a contract for any social relationship." He writes up a contract for himself and Meemaw, and then the narration continues with the big reveal... Barring an unfortunate turn of events for Sheldon and Amy, it's pretty safe to assume that the children referred to in the voiceover will be their kids. After all, it's no accident that Young Sheldon dropped this bombshell right after The Big Bang Theory's big wedding episode. We learned this week that The Big Bang Theory has been renewed for season 12, which isn't at all surprising given the show's ratings; the wedding episode was watched by 15 million viewers. Meanwhile, Young Sheldon was renewed for a second season back in January. In the wake of Young Sheldon's exciting revelation, the big question on fans' minds is whether or not we'll get to see Amy and Sheldon's kids soon on The Big Bang Theory. Incorporating babies and child characters into sitcoms about young adults without dragging the show down is a tricky thing to pull off, but now that fans know Sheldon will eventually have kids, many will no doubt be eagerly awaiting a reveal that Amy is pregnant in The Big Bang Theory season 12.

FOX has renewed Lethal Weapon for season 3 but with Seann William Scott starring in a co-lead role opposite Daymon Wayans. Lethal Weapon has had quite a storied history in Hollywood, beginning with the blockbuster buddy comedy in 1987 starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover as detectives Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, respectively. Directed by Richard Donner, the film's success led to a highly lucrative franchise that ran for four films over an 11-year period, adding the likes of co-stars Rene Russo, Joe Pesci, and Chris Rock along the way. Despite Donner and the film's leads enjoying all that success together, the franchise went dormant for 18 years after Lethal Weapon IV released in 1998, until FOX revived Lethal Weapon as an hour-long crime comedy TV series in 2016. Keeping with the spirit of the films, the slightly crazy Riggs and grounded Murtaugh were back – but this time played by Clayne Crawford and Wayans – and the series ran for two seasons before the idea of a third season was suddenly thrown into limbo because of the shaky future of Crawford on the show. But, it seems FOX has worked out the situation. THR reports that FOX has renewed Lethal Weapon for season 3, but with Seann William Scott replacing Clayne Crawford as the co-lead character, following Crawford's reported firing last week. Scott will play a new character in the series that begins a partnership with Murtaugh; however, sources told THR that Scott may play Martin Riggs' brother to keep the Riggs' name. This news comes two weeks after it was revealed that Crawford had been reprimanded twice for his behavior on set. The show's production studio didn't go into details as to why they parted ways with Crawford, only saying in a statement Sunday: "Warner Bros. Television has decided not to renew Clayne Crawford’s contract for 'Lethal Weapon.'" Crawford previously addressed the issues on his Instagram account, saying there were on set issues “over working conditions that did not feel safe or conducive to good work under the leadership of a guest director and assistant director.” The actor also said he met with human resources and completed "studio-appointed" therapy. While this news may disappoint his fans, there's no question that he's being replaced with a solid comedy actor. Not only was Scott hilarious in the American Pie series, but he also carved out a following as the lead in the cult indie sports comedies Goon and Goon: Last of the Enforcers. Scott has never had a problem establishing a winning presence on-screen, and he will no doubt easily slip into his first role as a series lead opposite the always entertaining Wayans, but audiences will determine that for themselves when Lethal Weapon returns for season 3. As for Crawford, it will be interesting to see how his career unfolds considering losing a slot on a hit series is a blow for any actor.

Disney and Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. The superhero feature topped the domestic box office for the third weekend in a row, delivered the second largest opening in China ever*, became the eighth largest domestic release of all-time, fifth largest global release and became the first superhero film to ever top $1 billion internationally. Beyond Infinity War's continued success, the weekend's two new wide releases saw Life of the Party and Breaking In finished in second and third place respectively as films such as A Quiet Place, Black Panther and the limited release documentary RBG were just some of the fellow standouts in the top ten. At the top, Avengers: Infinity War delivered an estimated $61.8 million this weekend, pushing the film's domestic gross to $547.8 million. Rival estimates have the film performing $2-4 million higher for the weekend, which should make Monday's actuals something to look out for and see if the superhero flick managed to cross $550 million domestically after just 17 days in release. At this time Infinity War ranks as the eighth largest domestic release ever and it will be interesting to see how the film holds up next weekend once Deadpool 2 debuts. Internationally, however, is where Infinity War made the most noise this weekend as it debuted in China and delivered an estimated $200 million, the second largest debut in the market ever based on local currency. By comparison, The Fate of the Furious brought in RMB 1.352 billion versus what Disney is reporting as RMB 1.266 billion for Infinity War, which edges out Monster Hunt 2 at RMB 1.204 billion. The three-day performance also exceeded the lifetime runs of The Avengers, Captain America: Civil War and Iron Man 3 in the market and it has already become the ninth largest western release all-time in China. As it stands, Infinity War is now the highest grossing superhero release internationally of all-time with its $1.059 billion topping the $946.4 million for Avengers: Age of Ultron. The film also now ranks as the fifth largest global release of all-time with $1.6 billion, just behind Jurassic World at $1.67 billion. In second is Warner Bros. and New Line's Life of the Party, delivering an estimated $18.5 million. The performance comes in on the lower end of industry expectations as the PG-13 comedy became Melissa McCarthy's smallest opening as a film's lead behind Tammy's $21.57 million opening back in July 2014. The film received a "B" CinemaScore from opening day audiences and played to a crowd that was 70% female and 80% of the overall audience was over the age of 25. Internationally, Life of the Party opened in eight markets and grossed an estimated $2.9 million including a $1.5 million second place debut in Australia and an $858k fourth place opening in the UK. Universal's Breaking In finished in third position with an estimated $16.5 million. We were anticipating a little more out of this title, but it still managed to outperform the studio's expectations and nearly triple its reported $6 million budget in its first three days of release. Starring Gabrielle Union, who also produces alongside Will Packer, the film received a "B" CinemaScore from opening day audiences and played to a crowd that was 65% female and 53% of the audience was 30 years of age or older. Additionally, Breaking In opened in five international markets this weekend with an estimated $1 million, including a fifth place finish in the U.K. with an estimated $609k. MGM and Lionsgate's Pantelion Films' release of Overboard dipped just 31% in its second weekend delivering an estimated $10.1 million, pushing the film's domestic cume to $29.5 million after ten days in release. The film also debuted in Mexico this weekend where it brought in an estimated $10.5 million, the highest opening in Mexico ever for star Eugenio Derbez. One of the best holdovers in the top ten lands in fifth position with Paramount's A Quiet Place delivering an estimated $6.4 million, dropping just 18% in its sixth weekend in release, finishing the weekend with a domestic cume totaling $169.5 million. The film also enjoyed a solid weekend internationally where it brought in $2.8 million from 55 markets as it passed $100 million internationally with releases in China, France and Japan still to go. Outside the top five, and landing in the top ten for the 13th consecutive week, is Disney and Marvel's Black Panther. The film brought in an estimated $1.9 million this weekend, pushing its domestic cume to $696.2 million, leaving less than $4 million before the film becomes only the third domestic release to ever top $700 million at the domestic box office. And just narrowly rounding out the top ten is Magnolia's RBG, which expanded into 180 locations (+146) for its second weekend and brought in an estimated $1.16 million for a domestic cume that now tops $2 million. The film will expand to 350 theaters next weekend. In limited release Swen's Nothing to Lose opened with an estimated $646,421 in 69 theaters ($9,368 PTA); Sony Classics's The Seagull debuted with an estimated $80,607 in six theaters ($13,435 PTA); Lu Over the Wall from GKIDS delivered an estimated $66,067 from 97 locations ($681 PTA); 30 West and Roadside Attractions's Beast opened with an estimated $52,078 from four theaters ($13,020 PTA); Neon's Revenge delivered an estimated $46,023 from 36 locations ($1,278 PTA); Magnolia's Boom for Real opened with $22,500 in one theater; Well Go's Champion brought in $18,200 from two theaters; Parade Deck's Goodland opened with $16,545 from two locations; Oscilloscope's Sollers Point brought in an estimated $10,850 from one theater; Good Deed's Always at the Carlyle opened in one theater with an estimated $9,209; Kino Lorber's Filmworker brought in $9,109 from one theater; and Greenwich's Mountain opened with $6,064, also from just one location. Next weekend will see the release of Fox's Deadpool 2 into a massive 4,250 locations, which will make it the widest R-rated release ever, surpassing the 4,103 locations It opened in last September. Additional releases include Paramount's Book Club into ~2,500 theaters; Global Road's animated release Show Dogs into approximately 3,000 theaters; and Focus will debut their documentary Pope Francis - A Man of His Word into ~350 theaters.

Neill Blomkamp's upcoming disaster thriller Greenland has cast Chris Evans in the lead role. This will mark one of Evans' first major projects following his concluding arc as Captain America in Anthony and Joe Russo's untitled Avengers 4 next year, which is supposed to be the actor's final appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Blomkamp originally made a splash with his directorial debut District 9, which combined social commentary with bug-like aliens. He then followed that up with Elysium and Chappie before shifting focus to his Oats Studios company, which produces online shorts. Over the last few years, Blomkamp has been very vocal in his desire to direct an Alien sequel that would bring back Ripley and Hicks, but despite a great deal of online support for the project, Blomkamp confirmed that he has 'moved on' from it. While he's remained out of the spotlight for a while now, he boarded the sci-fi thriller The Gone World last year and then even tried to get the online-short Firebase developed into a feature production. At the moment, it's unclear what's happening with those projects, but it seems that Blomkamp is set on returning to the big screen sooner rather than later. Deadline reports that Neill Blomkamp's next film is Greenland, which will star Chris Evans as the head of a family that finds themselves fighting "for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster." Production group Anton is producing and co-financing the film alongside Thunder Road Pictures and Riverstone Pictures, with STX International handling the overseas distribution. Speaking about the deal, David Kosse, President of STX International said; “Greenland is the kind of highly commercial genre fare that sees Neill Blomkamp doing what he does best: delivering a smart, fresh, high concept narrative in a world we can easily recognize. We were immediately attracted to this talent-driven, wide release, theatrical title that is so distinctive of the STX brand." The lack of details and a synopsis makes it difficult to gauge what to expect from the film, but Evans' casting and Blomkamp's commitment to the project is encouraging. It's not linked to any Oats Studios short, so it must have attracted the filmmakers attention away from the studio for valid reasons. Given the obvious nods to global social issues in his past films, and the references to a "cataclysmic natural disaster," it's likely that this will be more than a simple effects-driven movie; it might hold some references to climate change or something similar. Even the title could be a hint towards that theme. In the meantime, Greenland is expected to enter production later this year, which means audiences should learn more about the project before then. Furthermore, if filming wraps by the end of 2018 or in early 2019, it's possible that the movie could hit theaters in early 2020.

Brie Larson has her work cut out for her in 'Avengers 4,' but her character's comic book roots prove she is up for the task. [This story contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War] Brie Larson's Captain Marvel hasn't yet made her big-screen debut, but as audiences continue to process and debate the events of Avengers: Infinity War, it's time to take a closer look at Marvel Studio's next hero. First, a refresher on the final moments of Infinity War: Continuing the grand Marvel Cinematic Universe tradition of teasing future films in post-credits clips, Infinity War dropped the briefest possible glimpse at the arrival of Captain Marvel, who is slated for her own solo debut in March 2019. The tease was brief — a split second look at the blue, gold, and red Captain Marvel logo on the screen of a device carried by Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) which looked suspiciously like a 1990s beeper — and that was it. The world continued to spiral into post-Infinity War chaos as Fury himself vanished into dust. Not exactly the most hopeful proclamation for the future — especially if you're not totally sure who Captain Marvel actually is or what she can do. Thankfully we've got several decades worth of comics history to look at as we start making some guesses. The Captain Marvel in question in the live-action universe is a woman named Carol Danvers, and though she's currently the most well known and commercially successful hero to hold the title, she's far from the first. The legacy of Captain Marvel stretches all the way back to the 1960s, beginning with a character named Captain Mar-Vell who started his superheroic career as a military defector from the alien race called the Kree. Mar-Vell is slated to get an MCU debut in Captain Marvel as well. Jude Law is plains Mar-Vell's human alter-ego Dr. Walter Lawson, though it's unclear if he'll remain an ex-officer in the Kree army in this incarnation. Carol herself didn't actually take the name Captain Marvel until 2012, though she's existed in Marvel Comics for nearly as long as Mar-Vell himself. Originally introduced as a normal, human officer in the US Air Force, her powers were the result of an extremely '70s sci-fi accident where she was caught in an explosion that resulted in her DNA merging with Mar-Vell's genetic code, making her a Kree-Human hybrid. She came out of the experience with a whole range of metahuman abilities like flight, enhanced strength and super speed — you know, the works. Over the years as she experimented with her new powers she adopted superhero names like Ms. Marvel, Binary, and Warbird and served on just about every team you could think of, from the Avengers to the Guardians of the Galaxy. Identity crisis became a central theme in Carol's stories as she tried to figure out just where her loyalties lied and what her responsibilities were now that she was, in point of fact, a literal child of two worlds. It was this undercurrent of existentialism, expectation, and self discovery that eventually drove her to take on the Captain Marvel mantle for good as she set out to see where she fit in the name's long, complicated legacy. Now what that history might mean for Carol's live action incarnation is hard to say. Because we know the bulk of her solo film is going to be taking place in the 1990s (complete with a younger, two-eye Nick Fury as a supporting cast member) it's pretty safe to assume that her pre-Captain Marvel superheroic life isn't going to make it on to the screen. There just wouldn't be enough time to establish multiple identities in the space of a single movie -- and the complications that would bring for the MCU's overall timeline would most likely be more trouble than they're worth. So, smart money is on live action Carol being Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel only. That being said, her spot on the timeline pre-Iron Man does beg a fair amount of questions. Namely, if she's been active as a hero and known to Nick Fury for close to thirty years, where has she been? Why has Nick waited all this time to call her in? We can venture a guess that the answer to both of those questions is going to be some variation on "she's been in space." Set photos of Brie Larson in costume make it seem like Carol has been training directly with the Kree Army as well as with the US Air Force, meaning that while her child-of-two-worlds existential crisis is likely still going to be a major element of her character's identity, she's not going to spend too much time on Earth debating her place in things. It's very likely we're going to be left with a Carol Danvers who commits to joining and training with the Kree wholeheartedly — though whether that's a choice she makes herself or one that gets made for her is still up in the air. But don't panic. That doesn't mean she's a traitor to humanity, or even disinterested in the proceedings on Earth. The MCU has spent some time building up its version of the Kree Empire over the years, most directly with the Kree zealot Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) in Guardians of the Galaxy — who, if you can recall all the way back to 2014, spent some time working directly under Thanos (Josh Brolin) himself. Pace is set to reprise his role as Ronan in Captain Marvel, making it entirely possible we're going to see the seeds of a very personal beef between Carol and Thanos (or, at least Thanos's followers) start to form in her solo movie. Of course that doesn't necessarily spell out what Carol is going to be able to do in the face of Thanos' universal genocide. Make no mistake, Captain Marvel's abilities and intergalactic origins make her the closest approximation to a hero like Superman in the MCU roster next to the likes of Thor, but even a person with that kind of power can't exactly remake reality with their bare hands. So here's hoping she's spent the last twenty-some years out in space not only honing her craft and metahuman abilities but also studying up on both Thanos and the Infinity Stones — the future of the MCU is going to depend on it. Captain Marvel rolling up to Earth after half the galaxy turned to dust will be cool no matter what, but she's going to need more than super strength and speed to sort out this problem.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s vow to destroy his country’s nuclear-testing site is “a good first step” toward a summit agreement between Kim and President Trump, but repeated that both sides will have to take unprecedented steps. “Kim understands this will have to be big and special,” Pompeo told “Fox News Sunday.” “I think Kim appreciates the fact this is going to have to be different. . . . If we can achieve an historic outcome, both sides have to come to play.” However, he suggested that a phased-in or action-by-action type of negotiation between the leaders, as Kim has suggested, has historically failed. “We’ve seen this before, and it’s failed,” Pompeo said. Pompeo spoke after traveling last week to North Korea to negotiate with Kim on his final detail of the summit with Trump and to secure the release of three Americans imprisoned in the country. Trump announced Thursday that the summit will be held June 12 in Singapore. The president will trying to get Kim to give up his nuclear arsenal in exchange for economic support. Pompeo also suggested Sunday, in his first interview since returning from North Korea, that the United States seeks a long-term agreement with Kim, not a so-called “regime change to replace him. “Our hope is that Kim wants a strategic change, and President Trump is prepared to help,” the secretary said. Pompeo also provided some specifics about how the U.S. might help North Korea, saying it would be through private-sector investment, not taxpayer money, and that it would focus on improving the country’s power grid and improve the Koreans’ food supply Pompeo said last week that he told Kim while in Pyongyang that the United States aspires to have North Korea as a "close partner," not an enemy. Pompeo, a Harvard Law graduate and former Kansas congressman, was Trump’s CIA director until the president nominated him in March to be secretary of state. The Senate last month confirmed Pompeo to the post as the country’s top diplomat. On Tuesday, Trump said the United States was withdrawing from the international Iran nuclear deal, brokered in 2015 by the Obama administration. The U.S. will now re-impose sanctions on Iran, which remains in the deal with five other nations. Pompeo has said talks last week with Kim were "warm," ''constructive" and "good" and that he made clear that if North Korea gets rid of its nuclear weapons in a permanent and verifiable way, the U.S. is willing to help the impoverished nation boost its economy and living stands to levels like those in prosperous South Korea. "If North Korea takes bold action to quickly denuclearize, the United States is prepared to work with North Korea to achieve prosperity on the par with our South Korean friends," he said. Pompeo repeated that position Sunday. Since Trump announced plans to hold a summit with Kim, questions have been raised continually about whether the two leaders have the same objective in mind when they speak about "denuclearization." To the U.S., that means the North giving up the nuclear weapons it has already built. But North Korea has said it's willing to talk now because it's already succeeded in becoming a nuclear-armed state, fueling skepticism that the North would truly be willing to give up those weapons. Pompeo said there would need to be "complete" and "verifiable" denuclearization that would remove North Korea as a threat to the rest of the world. He said a major inspection and monitoring regime would be required to ensure the North's compliance.

Former NFL coach Chuck Knox died after battling a lengthy battle with dementia. He was 86. Knox's granddaughter, Lee Ann, confirmed his passing Sunday morning on Twitter. Known as "Ground Chuck" for his team's emphasis on running the ball, Knox is best remembered for coaching the Los Angeles Rams (1973-77, 1992-94), Buffalo Bills (1978-82), Seattle Seahawks (1983-91). He recorded a 186-147 record in the regular season, however his clubs combined for just a 7-11 mark in the playoffs. Knox was a three-time Associated Press NFL Coach of the Year (1973, 1980, 1984) and was also inducted into the Seahawks' Ring of Honor on Sept. 25, 2005. John Turney posted a story on Pro Football Journal early Sunday morning recalling a memorable exchange involving Knox, as told to him via Jack Youngblood. "Jack Youngblood once told me this story -- In 1976 during what would now be called a rookie camp Youngblood walked up to Knox who was watching a field full of rookie draft picks and free agents practice. Knox, with his steely gaze set towards the action, muttered to Youngblood, 'They switched the baby'. Youngblood had no clue what he was talking about, asked Knox what he meant. Knox nodded toward the Rams first-round draft choice Kevin McLain and said 'McLain ... they switched the baby. They told me he was 6-3, 230. He's barely 6-1 and not even 220.' "When I met Knox I asked him for more details. He responded that McLain had size 9 feet and Knox knew he would never be a good linebacker with feet that small. 'I got stuck with another one in Seattle --Brian Bosworth. He had feet this big,' stated Knox. He amplified his point by holding his hands maybe 10 inches apart to show the smallness of Bosworth's feet."

LeBron James will almost certainly assess whether he feels the Cleveland Cavaliers are in position to contend for championships when he makes his latest free agency decision this offseason, but that does not mean he is going to tell the team what needs to happen in order for them to re-sign him. While LeBron could make it easier on the Cavs by explaining exactly what he wants, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst said on “The Woj Pod” this week that he does not expect James to do that. “Unless LeBron breaks from his past, when the season ends there’s not going to be an exit interview,” Windhorst said. “He’s just gonna leave. There will be no conversations with LeBron James about what to do with the draft pick or, ‘Hey LeBron, what about your option you have for next year? Are you gonna pick that up? What if we trade the No. 8 pick for Player X?’ Unless LeBron changes his modus operandi, he will go dark.” Windhorst also said the narrative of LeBron basically being the general manager of the Cavs is overblown. “There are times when LeBron exerts pressure on the Cavs franchise and tries to leverage them into doing things. At the same time, he runs away from that at times,” Windhorst said. “He doesn’t want to take ownership of decisions because he wants to be able to have the freedom to blame the organization and/or leave the organization.” This is the problem the Cavs have with LeBron. He basically leaves the team in limbo, so they have to tread the line between doing enough to convince him to stay and not risking their entire future if he bolts again. That’s the reason we have heard reports that Cleveland is hesitant to trade the Brooklyn Nets’ first-round pick that they acquired in the Kyrie Irving deal. LeBron’s easiest path to the NBA Finals is remaining in the Eastern Conference, so he will probably end up sticking with the Cavs. However, a lot of speculation is swirling about him potentially joining an up and coming team in the East.

CONWAY, Ark. — To many Democratic leaders, the path to power in Washington looks like Clarke Tucker. He supports the Affordable Care Act, but not a single-payer system. He signals misgivings about Nancy Pelosi as the next House speaker. And even when addressing an audience of Democratic Party regulars, he does not attack President Trump by name. In short, he comes across as a moderate — and exactly the kind of candidate who leading Democrats believe the party should field in Republican-leaning districts to bolster the majority they hope to win in the House in November. Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter But that strategy frustrates the party’s liberal supporters, who feel the wind at the Democrats’ back and worry about using it to crowd their House caucus with members who may feel inclined to buck the party leadership and stray from its policy agenda. Though much of the Democratic energy nationally is coming from the party’s left, Mr. Tucker appears to be running well ahead of a clutch of more liberal rivals in the May 22 primary for a seat in Central Arkansas. “There’s, in my view, an overly simplistic characterization of Democrats now into one of two camps: either centrist and unenthusiastic or liberal and passionate,” Mr. Tucker, a state legislator, said in an interview after he spoke at a Faulkner County Democratic Women lunch on May 7. “I have a lot of passion about the issues that I really care about. At the same time, I realize that making any progress is better than making no progress at all.” His broad, incremental approach can feel unsatisfying to more confrontational Democrats. Even more aggravating for them is the support Mr. Tucker has received from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington, which anointed him as its preferred candidate to challenge the district’s Republican incumbent, French Hill. “Is it really worth the win to keep pushing back against the people you’re supposed to be serving?” said Paul Spencer, one of Mr. Tucker’s primary opponents. “The party used to stand for something. At some point, you’ve got to stand up, and you’ve got to move the party in the right direction.” In a string of important races across the country, national Democrats have been embracing recruits near the political center, hoping they will give the party the chance to compete in states like Utah and Kansas where a liberal Democrat might stand little chance of winning. About a dozen crucial House races this fall are likely to feature Democratic nominees who are positioned markedly closer to the middle than the national party’s activist base — more than enough to determine control of the House. The party scored an early upset with just such a candidate, Conor Lamb, in a Pennsylvania special election in March. Mr. Lamb, a veteran, opposed Ms. Pelosi, single-payer health care and most new gun regulations, but with a populist economic message captured a district Mr. Trump carried easily in 2016. Democratic voters have largely been going along in the primaries held so far in these districts, which are often in rural areas. In Illinois the voters chose Brendan Kelly, a prosecutor with a mend-it, don’t-end-it message on the Affordable Care Act, to take on a conservative Republican in a rural district. And on Tuesday, Democrats in several states that President Trump carried in 2016 selected ideological mavericks to carry their banner in difficult House races. One was in Indiana, where Mel Hall, a businessman and former minister who has made political donations to Republicans, dispatched rivals on the left who called him an unreliable Democrat. Another was in West Virginia, where Richard Ojeda, a fiery populist running for an open seat in the southern part of the state, has boasted of having voted for Mr. Trump in 2016. Representative Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, a first-term Democrat who wrested his closely divided district from a hard-line Republican in 2016, said his party should strongly back moderate candidates who have the potential to compete in areas that often prove politically grim for Democrats. Mr. Gottheimer, who is backed by the conservative-leaning U.S. Chamber of Commerce, urged liberal Democrats to accept some ideological dissension in the party’s ranks in order to achieve a congressional majority. “If we’re going to win some of the places we can win, in redder parts of the country, it’s with people who may not be aligned on certain issues with some other Democrats,” Mr. Gottheimer said. Lawmakers and advocacy groups on the left object that recruiting a generation of less-than-liberal Democrats might cripple the party’s ability to enact sweeping policy changes in Washington. If Democrats capture the House in November by only a narrow margin — perhaps half a dozen seats or fewer — a small cluster of stubborn centrists could wield enormous influence. Liberal resistance to that scenario may become a more serious obstacle for moderate Democrats later in primary season, when bluer-tinged states select candidates. For example, in California, which votes next month, Democrats are waging fierce left-versus-center primary fights in many of the 14 Republican-held districts. And in many contested suburban districts, Democrats appear likely to nominate candidates well to the left of center. Mr. Gottheimer acknowledged “tension within the ranks in the party” over whom to back in high-profile House races. He said he had spoken personally with centrist candidates in his own state and in Minnesota, California and elsewhere to urge them on. He paraphrased his message: “You can win, and you’ll be welcome in the caucus and in the party.” The House Democrats’ campaign committee has not hesitated to back relatively moderate candidates, even in less red areas, when the group concludes that a less strident nominee would give the party its best chance of winning. The committee has backed centrist state legislators for Congress in upstate New York and southern New Jersey, and anointed Gil Cisneros, a former Republican and military veteran, in Orange County, Calif. In Central Arkansas, its seal of approval went to Mr. Tucker. His district, the Second, stretching from the small towns of Saline County through Little Rock and toward the strawberry stands around Bald Knob, has tilted toward Republicans in recent years, but it is not inherently safe territory: A Democrat held the seat as recently as 2010, and Mr. Trump won only a bare majority there in 2016. The incumbent, Mr. Hill, whose campaign did not respond to a request for comment, is increasingly seen as vulnerable, particularly against Mr. Tucker, whose personal struggle with cancer has come to define his campaign. Even so, Arkansas Republicans say they have confidence in Mr. Hill’s well-financed campaign. “Any time you have Democrats almost singularly focused on that race, then that is naturally going to generate a more competitive race,” Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican seeking re-election, said over breakfast at the State Capitol. “It’s something to watch, but I do believe the potential for an upset is overblown.” Poll results suggest that Mr. Tucker, 37, may advance to the general election without a runoff. The Democratic maneuvers in the race reflect a sometimes-grudging consensus among many donors and strategists that a more liberal candidate would falter in Arkansas. Mr. Tucker said he wanted “to appeal to different kinds of people,” from his party’s most progressive voices to disgruntled Republicans, and he defended his record in the state legislature, which he portrayed as both proudly Democratic and bipartisan. “It’s important to recognize that when you say, ‘Oh, here’s a candidate who could win,’ it’s not about being moderate enough to attract moderates,” he said. “It’s about being visionary and innovative and passionate enough to excite people, to get them out and vote as well.” His rival Mr. Spencer, a high school teacher, chafed at the national party’s intervention in the primary: “I’ve taught the Constitution for 20 years. I never saw any place in that document that said I had to ask permission of the party elite if I could run for public office.” Mr. Spencer, whose campaign office in North Little Rock is filled with young workers and a decidedly grass-roots, upstart sensibility, insisted that a liberal platform would fare well among Arkansans if given the chance. For plenty of Democrats, though, that seems too big a gamble. They say that in a place like Arkansas, their party must play a long game, and not expect voters to swing all the way from Republicanism to a Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren-style liberal platform in a single election. “Maybe we can get to that later, but you don’t build Rome in a day,” said Marion Baker, a 93-year-old stalwart of Democratic politics in Arkansas. “When you do a little thing, and it works, and people see that you do what you say you’ll do, then they’ll go along.”

BANDUNG, Indonesia — At least 11 people were killed on Sunday morning after suicide bombers detonated explosions at three churches in Surabaya, Indonesia’s second-largest city, as worshipers gathered between services, the police said. More than 41 other people were wounded by the attackers, at least one of whom was disguised as a churchgoer, said Frans Barung Mangera, a police spokesman. He said the number of casualties could increase as the police were still investigating the blasts. Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter Mr. Mangera said the bombs had been detonated in different parts of the city within minutes of one another. He said the victims included many worshipers who were entering and leaving the churches between services. Two police officers were among the victims, he said. Indonesia’s police chief, Tito Karnavian, said at a news conference that the bombings had been the work of one family, who set off three different kinds of bombs. The forensic laboratory is investigating what kind of explosives were used, he said. He identified the man only as Dita and the woman as Puji Kuswanti, and said two sons, Yusuf, 18, and Alif, 16, were also involved. Two younger children were also seen in the company of the woman at one bombing site, the police said. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombings, according to the Islamist militant group’s news agency Amaq, but did not provide any evidence. a group of people standing on top of a car: Police officers were among the victims. Officials said at least one of the attackers was disguised as a churchgoer. Police officers were among the victims. Officials said at least one of the attackers was disguised as a churchgoer. In one attack, footage posted on YouTube showed what appeared to be an attacker on a scooter suddenly turning off a street and speeding toward a church before exploding. [Video: CCTV Detik-detik Ledakan Bom Surabaya Watch on YouTube.] The police said the father, driving a Toyota minivan, had dropped off the mother and the two younger children, ages 12 and 9, at the Indonesia Christian Church. Kumparan News, an online news site, quoted the deputy police chief of Surabaya as saying that a woman with two children tried to force her way into the church after being stopped by a security guard. The woman then detonated the bomb in the yard outside the entrance, killing herself and the two children, the deputy police chief said. The police chief said the sons had detonated a bomb at Santa Maria Church. Photographs from the site showed several people lying on the ground outside the church gate. Other images showed scattered debris and the police cordoning off the site. The father crashed his vehicle into Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church, detonating an explosion, the police said. Investigators said they believed the bomb had been in the vehicle. It was not immediately clear if the official death toll included the attackers, along with the younger children. The bombings came as professed followers of the Islamic State have begun to make their presence felt in Indonesia, a Muslim-majority nation that is proud of its diversity and tolerance. Surabaya, located on the eastern side of the island of Java, has a significant Christian minority that is about 11 percent of the city’s population of almost three million. This month, inmates who said they were followers of the Islamic State rioted in a high-security detention center outside of Jakarta, the capital. Five guards were killed before counterterrorism officers stormed the compound. In 2016, the Islamic State claimed its first attack in Southeast Asia, when militants attacked a police post and shopping center in downtown Jakarta with homemade guns and bombs. Churches have also been targeted by other extremists. On Christmas Eve in 2000, nearly simultaneous attacks on churches in Jakarta and several other cities killed about 20 people. A local group with links to Al Qaeda later claimed credit. Ansyaad Mbai, a former leader of Indonesia’s counterterror agency, said he believed that the tight coordination of Sunday’s attacks suggested that they were the work of a single group, which might have sleepers cells in Indonesia. “This is a series of planned attacks that are aimed at delegitimizing the government,” he said. He suggested that the attacks might have been the work of local extremist groups like the Jamaah Anshar Daulah, which have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

Tiger Woods hopes to build on an entertaining Saturday. The 42-year-old rocketed from T-68 to T-9 in Round 3 with a 7-under 65 - tied for the round of the day. He's 11 shots off the lead, but if Woods gets hot again Sunday and Webb Simpson (the leader by seven) seriously falters … you never know. Whatever happens, we will follow Woods' final-round progress shot-by-shot. Keep up with our Tiger Tracker below… Hole No. 2: Par 5, 533 yards OFF THE TEE (2:19 p.m. ET): That's not good. Tiger takes 3-wood and he loses this one right. He actually reaches the pinestraw and it's possible this could be in a bush. We don't know, but if Tiger missed that bush, this will be a pitch out anyway. SECOND SHOT (2:24 p.m. ET): Oh, Tiger caught a break. The ball stopped a yard from going into a bunch of bushes. He has to crouch down to hit this one and maybe advances it 100 yards down the fairway, but Tiger is out and will be in the fairway for his third. Remember, a yard or so farther right on that drive and Tiger is taking a penalty drop. Hole No. 1: Par 4, 423 yards OFF THE TEE (2:07 p.m. ET): Driver. Twirl. Right down the middle. Perfect opening tee shot. APPROACH SHOT (2:12 p.m. ET): Not his best. A wedge from 108 yards lands about 20 feet short of the pin and spins a bit back just off the front edge of the green. He'll have about 30 feet for birdie right in front there. Not ideal after that drive. AROUND THE GREEN (2:14 p.m. ET): Tiger putts this beautifully. A perfect lag just left and beyond the hole. This will be a tap-in par. OFF THE TEE (2:16 p.m. ET): Yep, opening par. TIGER ON THE DAY: Even thru 1 (8 under overall, T-16)

The latest data from the Social Security Administration shows the name Donald saw no change in popularity in the U.S. in 2017 from the year before. Donald remains No. 488 on the SSA’s official list of the most popular baby names of 2017, the same position it occupied in 2016, according to Friday’s release. Donald fell 45 places in 2016 ― the year Donald Trump was elected president ― to 488 from 433 the year earlier. Social Security officials reported that 690 Donalds were born in 2015, and 621 were given that name in 2016. In 2017, the number fell slightly, with 594 newborn Donalds. The SSA draws its name data from applications for Social Security cards based on year of birth (as long as the name is at least two characters long, and the sex and state where the birth took place are known). There were 2,017,790 newborn males registered with the SSA in 2016, and 1,963,290 in 2017. Thus, the percentage of baby boys named Donald in each year was 0.03 percent. Prior to 2017, the current U.S. president’s name had been declining in popularity for some time, though it showed a slightly larger drop in 2016 from the year before. The name Donald peaked at the sixth-most popular for boys in 1934. Trump was born in 1946, when the name ranked as 13th-most popular. The names of presidents tend to fall in the popularity charts during their administrations. The name Ronald gradually declined in popularity throughout the Reagan era. The same pattern was true for the Nixon and Ford administrations. The year after George W. Bush was elected president, the name George jumped up one spot on the popularity list, though the subsequent years showed decline. The name George also fell in popularity during George H.W. Bush’s administration. The name Lyndon saw a major boost in popularity in 1964, the year after President Lyndon B. Johnson took office, but it plummeted for the remainder of his administration. The name Bill dropped off the Top 1,000 list after President Bill Clinton took office, though the name William generally increased in popularity. The name Barack did not appear in the SSA’s records, which document the names given to five or more newborns each year, until 2007, when five baby Baracks appeared on the scene. The year Barack Obama became president, 52 newborn babies were named Barack, and the number jumped to 69 in 2009. © Official White House Photo By Pete Souza The name Barack rose in popularity after Obama appeared on the scene, though the number of babies named Barack declined throughout much of his presidency. The number of baby Baracks declined throughout Obama’s presidency ― with 28 in 2010, 15 in 2011, 16 in 2012, 11 in 2013 and 2014, and eight in 2015. However, in 2016, the final year of his second term, the number rose again with 19 newborn Baracks. In 2017, there were 11. The name Donald is certainly more loaded these days, as the name of one of the more controversial U.S. presidents. However, controversy or bad press don’t necessarily cause a name to plummet. In fact, Cleveland K. Evans, a Bellevue University psychology professor and former president of the American Name Society, told The Associated Press in 2007 that publicity around a particular name, whether positive or negative, usually boosts its popularity. “So many parents are looking for a new, unusual name, there are always a few of them who are going to take it from any cultural event,” said Evans. Will Donald maintain its ranking in 2018, or will it see a boost or decrease? We’ll have to wait another year to find out.

The body of a 10-year-old girl who has been missing for nearly ten years has been found in Washington State. Lindsey Baum disappeared in 2009 when she was walking to a friend’s house. Her body was found last fall but the remains weren’t identified as hers until this week by authorities due to a delay in DNA testing. Baum’s body was found by hunters on rocky terrain, 180 miles east of where she disappeared from her McCleary home. Her mom vehemently denied her daughter ran away at the time of her disappearance. Kittitas County Sheriff's Office led a search Saturday of the terrain that Undersheriff Clay Myers described as "steep, heavily timbered with large cliffs and deep ravines." The case has now been ruled a kidnapping and homicide investigation, police said. "For the last nine years we've not been able to definitively say what this was, beyond this was a missing child," Sheriff Rick Scott said. "...Now, the reality is we need to find a homicide suspect." He said the family is "understandably devastated" at the news. It was not immediately clear when Lindsey died, police said

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NBC has unveiled its 2018-2019 primetime schedule, with plans to add five new dramas and two new comedies to its entertainment roster. Here is NBC’s full fall 2018 schedule: NBC FALL 2018-19 SCHEDULE (New programs in UPPER CASE; all times ET) MONDAY 8-10 P.M. — The Voice 10-11 P.M. — MANIFEST TUESDAY 8-9 P.M. — The Voice 9-10 P.M. — This Is Us 10-11 P.M. — NEW AMSTERDAM WEDNESDAY 8-9 P.M. — Chicago Med 9-10 P.M. — Chicago Fire 10-11 P.M. — Chicago P.D. THURSDAY 8-8:30 P.M. — Superstore 8:30-9 P.M. — The Good Place 9-9:30 P.M. — Will & Grace 9:30-10 P.M. — I FEEL BAD 10-11 P.M. — Law & Order: SVU FRIDAY 8-9 P.M. – Blindspot 9-10 P.M. — Midnight, Texas 10-11 P.M — Dateline NBC SATURDAY 8-10 P.M. — Dateline Saturday Night Mystery 10-11 P.M. – Saturday Night Live (encores) SUNDAY 7-8:20 P.M. — Football Night in America 8:20-11 P.M. — NBC Sunday Night Football Coming for midseason: comedies “A.P. Bio,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” and newcomer “Abby’s,” dramas “The Blacklist,” “Good Girls” and newcomers “The Enemy Within,” “The Village” and “The InBetween.”

“Avengers: Infinity War” has maintained its staying power at the domestic box office. The Disney and Marvel blockbuster earned a huge $61.8 million in its third weekend. Combined with its $200 million launch in China, “Infinity War” earned $343.1 million worldwide this weekend, for a global cume of $1.6 billion. On Saturday, it became the second-fastest film to cross the $500 million mark at the domestic box office. The superhero adventure has passed “The Avengers” ($1.519 billion), “Furious 7” ($1.516 billion), “Avengers: Age of Ultron” ($1.405 billion), “Black Panther” ($1.229 billion), and “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” ($1.332 billion) to become the fifth-highest grossing global film of all time. Two mom-led opening releases got a Mother’s Day boost. Melissa McCarthy’s comedy “Life of the Party” debuted in second with $18.5 million from 3,656 locations. The Warner Bros. and New Line film is currently averaging a 41% on Rotten Tomatoes, as well as a B CinemaScore. Meanwhile, Gabrielle Union’s “Breaking In” launched in third with $16.5 million in 2,537 locations. The thriller from Universal has a 27% on Rotten Tomatoes. The second weekend of Lionsgate and Pantelion’s comedy “Overboard” landed in fourth with $10 million, while the sixth weekend of Paramount’s “A Quiet Place” secured No. 5 with $6.3 million. The thriller directed by John Krasinski has made $169 million at the domestic box office. The year-to-date box office is up 4.9% from 2017, according to comScore. The box office is likely to see a boost in coming weeks as “Deadpool 2” opens May 18 and “Solo: A Star Wars Story” bows on May 25.