Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) As the NFL draft kicks off this week, President Joe Biden s campaign is launching a new digital ad on Thursday taking aim at former President Donald Trump s past comments disparaging football and the league, the Biden campaign told ABC News.The short, 20-second ad, on YouTube, features a montage of Trump previously attacking football, calling it "boring as hell" and saying "nobody cares about football," juxtaposed with Biden greeting and touting his relationship with football players.The ad the latest skirmish in the early part of Biden s general election fight against Trump, which is expected to be close ends with the message: "Make the right pick in November."The ad plays into the longstanding feud between the NFL and Trump, who had once owned rival United States Football League team the New Jersey Generals in the 1980s and reportedly tried to buy the Buffalo Bills in 2014 but was unsucces
Netflix/Ed AraquelOn Thursday, Netflix dropped all eight episodes of the supernatural series Dead Boy Detectives, based on the beloved comic series from The Sandman s Neil Gaiman.Edwin Payne (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) are best friends and as the title suggests, they re dead. However, as ghosts, they re tasked with solving paranormal mysteries.One of their allies in their quests is Tragic Mick, sort of the Q to the specter sleuths James Bond.The actor who plays him, Michael Beach, says there s more to the eccentric character, however."He s a man who used to be a walrus, but because of some mystical thing and it will come up in the show he has been a human for 200 years," Beach says. "And he spent that time, all of that time trying to find potions and spells . to turn him back into a walrus, because he misses living in the sea."Beach explains, "He s developed this shop where people can come and get potions and spells
Getty Images - STOCK(LONDON) Days of torrential rain have triggered widespread flooding across parts of Kenya, turning roads into raging rivers and claiming dozens of lives.Half of Kenya s 47 counties have been affected by the flooding, which has killed at least 32 people and displaced more than 40,000 others from their homes, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which cited the Kenya Red Cross Society.The ongoing El Nino, a warming of the equatorial Pacific Ocean that increases wind shear over the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, has brought higher-than-average seasonal rainfall to East Africa. The heavy rain began in Kenya in March during the start of the country s so-called long rains season and worsened over the past week, according to the Kenya Meteorological Department.The Kenya Red Cross said its staff have rescued at least 188 people since the onset of the long rains, which typically last from March through May. Near
DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) Public health officials are continuing to monitor as an outbreak of avian flu, also known as bird flu, continues to spread across the country.The strain, known as H5N1, has sickened several mammals this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).Several dairy cows have been infected, resulting in milk samples showing inactive remnants of the virus, and one human case has been confirmed.Health officials say the food supply is safe and the risk to the general public is currently low.Here s the latest to know on the outbreak:What is bird flu?Avian influenza, or bird flu, is an infectious viral disease that primarily spreads among birds and is caused by infection with Influenza A viruses.These viruses typically spread among wild aquatic birds but can infect domestic poultry and other bird and animal species, acco