The Navy documents also list other ships that are being considered for renaming. They include USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez, and USNS Medgar Evars. All of the eponymous figures are prominent people of color, women, and/or civil rights leaders from American history.
Since Hegseth was sworn in, he has made it his personal mission to scrub all traces of diversity from the Department of Defense. This has included dismantling DEI hiring and recruitment initiatives and temporarily erasing posts about racial history from the department website.
He announced that the military would no longer recognize Black History Month, Women’s History Month, and other heritage months, declaring the observations “dead” on January 31. He also has happily carried out Trump’s executive order to ban transgender people from serving in the armed forces.
EDMONTON — Mattias Ekholm has defied the odds and will be in the lineup for the Edmonton Oilers in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers at Rogers Place on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, TNT, truTV, MAX).
An undisclosed injury prevented the 35-year-old defenseman from making his debut this postseason until Game 5 of the Western Conference Final on May 29, when he had an assist in a 6-3 win against the Dallas Stars to help the Oilers advance to the Cup Final for a second straight season.
“It’s amazing,” Ekholm said on Monday. “Six weeks ago, I had no clue where I was going to be at (in terms of recovery), and most people didn’t think I was going to be in this position. So, to be able to be part of this group, to be part of things on the ice and help this team win has obviously been the goal the whole time.
“And now that it’s reality, it’s awesome for me, personally.”
Ekholm averaged 22:12 during the regular season on the Oilers’ top defense pair alongside Evan Bouchard, but he reaggravated an injury that had him in and out of the lineup since February.
In all, Ekholm missed 17 of Edmonton’s last 31 regular-season games. He initially attempted to return on April 11 against the San Jose Sharks, but Ekholm lasted two shifts and 1:52, falling twice without contact before making his way to the dressing room, heading down the hallway with his season potentially hanging in the balance.
But he returned in time to help the Oilers secure their return ticket to the Cup Final.
“His first game, he exceeded expectations,” Edmonton coach Kris Knoblauch said. “And I say that because you never know what you’re going to get from a player coming back from an injury. He had been out for weeks, and then to come in to play against Dallas, who’s a good team, in a high-paced playoff game, he looked very comfortable and made a lot of nice plays and looked a lot like what we’re accustomed to seeing ‘Eky’ play, because he’s a heck of a player and you never know if he’s going to be able to pick that up right away.
“He played almost 16 minutes that night (15:52). Can he play some more? Absolutely. Can he play 30 (minutes)? Probably not there yet. But over 20, yes.”
Hot Toys first teased plans to release a line of Thunderbolts* 1/6th scale figures earlier this month. The first of those has been officially revealed today: Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, the fan-favourite Black Widow and Hawkeye character, who now leads the New Avengers.
The likeness is on point, and for many fans, this is the best costume Yelena has worn in the MCU.
Her look received another update in the movie’s post-credits scene, though we don’t anticipate any New Avengers (“New Avengerz”?) figures being released until post-Avengers: Doomsday.
Pugh wowed everyone in Thunderbolts* by legitimately jumping off the second-tallest building in the world. Discussing her 2,227 feet dive during the movie’s press tour, Pugh said, “I actually think stepping into the mind of Yelena saved me because in that scene she’s not supposed to be scared, she’s supposed to just be, like, chilling up there.”
“So I had to just pretend like I was her. ‘It’s fine, I’m just dangling with my feet off that insane height.’ So it actually saved me,” she added.
The teaser released by Hot Toys indicated that the Hong Kong-based company will also produce figures based on Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, and Taskmaster. We have to believe U.S. Agent and The Sentry are also somewhere on the horizon.
Check out this new Thunderbolts* Hot Toys figure below, along with an official product description.
Hot Toys is proud to introduce the 1/6th scale Yelena Belova Collectible Figure, the first member of our Thunderbolts* lineup. This figure features a newly developed head sculpt with movie-accurate facial expression, detailed make-up, and separate rolling eyeballs. Her blonde hair is sculpted precisely, capturing the character’s on-screen likeness.
Yelena’s combat costume is recreated with exceptional attention to detail, featuring a one-piece tactical suit with hand-sewn stitching details, complemented with shoulder armor and the signature Black Widow’s Bite wristlets on both wrists. Her gear is as deadly as it is iconic, including short batons and long batons with attachable scythe blades, alongside a pistol and combat knife for close-quarter encounters.
With nine interchangeable hands for varied poses, from relaxed stances to action-ready gestures and signature superhero landing poses, this release offers incredible display flexibility for dynamic and expressive poses.
“Thunderbolts* redefines superhero storytelling to deliver a moving and powerful story that does for the ‘Multiverse Saga’ what The Avengers did for the ‘Infinity Saga’ in 2012,” we said in our review. “These heroes have earned their place on a Wheaties box.”
After grossing less than $10 million at the box office this weekend, things are winding down for Marvel’s second movie of the year. Thunderbolts* debuted at the start of the month, and the film has managed to collect $358 million at the global box office, with a roughly even split of $175 million coming from domestic markets and $182 million internationally. Although Thunderbolts* perhaps hasn’t earned enough to be considered a colossal financial success, Hot Toys has celebrated it passing $350 million globally by releasing a new figure of Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova. The new collectible bears an uncanny resemblance to Pugh’s appearance in the film, and it includes her short and long batons, attachable scythe blades, as well as her pistol and combat knife for her close-quarters encounters.
Hot Toys announced shortly after Thunderbolts* hit theaters that a full line of collectibles was coming soon, and it’s no surprise…
The Dodgers’ lineup should be back at full strength soon.
When they’ll be able to say the same about their pitching staff is anyone’s guess.
First, the good news for the team: After fracturing the fourth toe on his left foot (the one closest to the pinky toe) last week and missing all three games against the New York Yankees, shortstop Mookie Betts went through a full slate of pregame hitting, baserunning and defensive drills on Monday and seemed probable to be available off the bench for the Dodgers in their series-opener against the New York Mets.
Assuming he continues to feel good, Betts should also return to the starting lineup on Tuesday, manager Dave Roberts said.
“That’s all contingent on if he recovers well tonight,” Roberts said.
Based on Betts’ activity level Monday, he certainly appeared to be ready to return. As one of the first Dodgers players on the field before the game, he spent several minutes running the bases, then went through a full session of infield grounders at shortstop. Betts also took batting practice, a day after Roberts said his swing in the batting cage “wasn’t compromised at all” by the freak injury.
“For me, I just want to make sure I move to make plays for those guys,” Betts said Sunday. “Hitting, hopefully that comes along. I just want to make sure I can play defense.”
As for the less encouraging update: A week after throwing his first bullpen session since going on the injured list in April with shoulder inflammation, Tyler Glasnow has been feeling general body discomfort, Roberts said.
Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow delivers against the Phillies on April 6, 2025 in Philadelphia.
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Glasnow has continued to play catch, including on Monday afternoon in the outfield of Dodger Stadium. But Roberts said he is “not sure when he’s gonna get back on a mound.”
“There was one ‘pen, and then [his] body didn’t respond,” Roberts said. “So we’re trying to figure out when we can ramp him back up.”
Given Glasnow’s extensive injury history, such a setback qualifies as only mildly surprising. The 31-year-old has never made more than 22 starts or pitched over 134 innings in a major league season. And while he set both of those high-marks in his first season with the Dodgers last year — arriving in Los Angeles via a trade from Tampa Bay two winters ago and an ensuing five-year, $136.5-million extension — he never returned from an elbow tendonitis injury he suffered in August, despite repeated attempts to comeback in time for the playoffs.
“I know he’s just as frustrated as we all are [that] the process since we’ve had him, it just hasn’t been linear, as far as getting him back,” Roberts said. “He’s champing at the bit, so that’s a good thing. He’s very anxious to get back out here and help his team.”
Of the Dodgers’ injured quartet of star pitchers — which also includes Blake Snell, Roki Sasaki and Shohei Ohtani — Glasnow was initially expected to return first.
Now, however, he and Snell might be on more similar timelines. Snell made notable progress in his throwing progression this week and could begin throwing bullpens early next week.
“He’s in a really good spot physically and mentally,” Roberts said of Snell.
Sasaki has also been throwing lately, though Roberts noted it has been low-intensity. Ohtani, meanwhile, threw his second live batting practice over the weekend, and remains on track to return sometime after the All-Star break.
In the bullpen, the Dodgers should get a couple of reinforcements in the coming days.
Hard-throwing right-hander Michael Kopech (out since the start of the season with a shoulder injury) will be in Los Angeles this week after completing a minor-league rehab assignment, though exactly when he will be activated remains to be seen. Kopech yielded 11 runs and 11 walks in 6 ⅓ innings with triple-A Oklahoma City, and Roberts said the club wants to “evaluate, see how he is” up close before having him make his MLB season debut.
Another veteran right-hander, Kirby Yates, threw his second bullpen session on Monday since suffering a hamstring strain last month. He will next throw a live batting practice on Wednesday, and could be activated as soon as next weekend.
New York Mets starting pitcher and former UCLA Bruin Griffin Canning is looking to get back on track Wednesday against the Los Angeles Dodgers after a disappointing last two starts.
Canning, a 29-year-old righty, signed a one-year, $4.2 million “prove-it” deal with the Mets after spending five seasons with the Los Angeles Angels. The pitcher has been having a solid year and is one of New York’s most trusted arms.
However, Canning is coming off his worst two starts if the season, one of them being against the Dodgers just over a week ago.
Canning is boasting a 5-2 record in 11 appearances for the Mets this season. He is tossing a 3.23 ERA in 53.0 innings to go along with a 1.40 WHIP.
His last appearance was against the Chicago White Sox a week ago, where he allowed five runs (three earned) and four walks in just 3.0 innings pitched. The effort gave Canning his second loss of the season and first since late March.
Five days prior, Canning was on the bump against the Dodgers in New York. He pitched two shutout innings before the ball got away from him in the third, allowing three earned runs and not making it out of the frame.
Canning finished that contest against the Dodgers pitching 2.2 innings, allowing four walks, one hit and three earned runs.
Before those last two starts, Canning flaunted a 2.47 ERA through nine games and had only pitched under 5.0 innings once all season, a four-inning outing against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 5.
Mets fans have been singing Cannings praises lately, mostly because of his contract. With the early exit and apparent arm injury of Arizona Diamondbacks ace Corbin Burnes, New York fans are glad they took Canning, and aging pitcher in his own right, on a much smaller deal than that of Burnes.
Canning has even gotten some light buzz as a potential All-Star for the Mets. It will be hard for the for Bruin, though, as he is competing with a pitching room consisting of Kodai Senga, Clay Holmes and David Peterson, who are all having great years as well.
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Betts broke his toe last Wednesday, reportedly by banging it against a wall while trying to make his way to the bathroom in the dark. While still dealing with the fracture, the injury is minor enough that he’s able to play less than a week later, as he said last week the main issue is pain management.
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While he missed more than his predicted two games, he successfully avoided the 10-day injured list.
Cameras caught Betts trying out some running with his bad toe Monday.
The Dodgers went 2-2 in their games without Betts, taking two out of three against the New York Yankees — one win via comeback, the other via unholy beatdown — before losing their series opener to the New York Mets on Tuesday in extra innings.
Mookie Betts will be playing through the pain for a while. (Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images)
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Betts is in his second season attempting to stick as the Dodgers’ full-time shortstop. Last season saw him struggle with errors before missing nearly two months with a fractured hand and reverting to right field upon his return. This season has been going better, with several advanced metrics rating him as a plus at one of baseball’s more difficult positions.
That defensive value has helped offset a step back from Betts offensively this season. All three numbers of his .254/.338/.405 slashline represent career lows, and his batted ball data indicates that’s not just a run of bad luck.
Tom Hanks is speaking out for the first time following the release of his daughter E.A. Hanks’ memoir, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road, which alleges that her mom was emotionally and physically abusive
“I’m not surprised that my daughter had the wherewithal as well as the curiosity to examine this thing,” he explained to Access Hollywood recently
E.A. Hanks’ memoir was released on April 8 and examines her childhood
Tom Hanks is sharing how he really feels about his daughter E.A. Hanks’ memoir, The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road — and the claims it brings forth that her mom, actress Samantha Lewes, was emotionally and physically abusive.
The Forrest Gump star, 68, addressed the abuse allegations E.A.’s book — which was published April 8 — during a conversation with Access Hollywood on Wednesday, May 26, at the red carpet premiere of his new film, The Phoenician Scheme.
“I’m not surprised that my daughter had the wherewithal as well as the curiosity to examine this thing that I think she was incredibly honest about,” Hanks told the outlet. “We all come from checkered, cracked lives, all of us.”
“She’s a knockout, always has been,” he continued. “If you’ve had kids, you realize that you see who they are when they’re about 6 weeks old.”
E.A. Hanks.
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In the memoir, E.A., whose real name is Elizabeth Anne, details experiencing “emotional violence” and “physical violence” from her mother, whose real name Susan Dillingham, after her parents’ divorce.
Hanks and Dillingham tied the knot in January 1978, and their divorce was finalized in 1987. Dillingham got primary custody, and the kids had designated weekend and summer visits with Hanks.
“I would visit my dad and stepmother (and soon enough my younger half brothers) on the weekends and during summers, but from 5 to 14, years filled with confusion, violence, deprivation, and love,” E.A., 43, wrote in an excerpt previously obtained by PEOPLE.
She added, “As the years went on, the backyard became so full of dog s— that you couldn’t walk around it, the house stank of smoke. The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible.”
E.A. said she moved to Los Angeles after her mother’s alleged abuse took a turn for the worse.
“One night, her emotional violence became physical violence, and in the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, right smack in the middle of the seventh grade. My custody arrangement basically switched — now I lived in L.A. and visited Sacramento on the weekends and in the summer.”
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She said during her senior year of high school, her mother called to tell her she was dying. Though her mother was never diagnosed, E.A. believes Dillingham was bipolar with episodes of extreme paranoia and delusion.
E.A. Hanks memoir.
Hanks’ latest film, The Phoenician Scheme, centers around a wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda (played by Benicio Del Toro), who “appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins,” per IMDb. Hanks plays Korda’s business associate, Leland. The film also stars Mia Threapleton, Michael Cera, Willem Dafoe, Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson and more.
It was released in limited theaters on May 30 and will see a wide release June 6.
Three Britons could face the death penalty in Bali after appearing in court charged with smuggling nearly a kilogram of cocaine into Indonesia.
Jonathan Christopher Collyer and Lisa Ellen Stocker were arrested on 1 February after customs officers stopped them at an X-ray machine after finding suspicious items in their luggage, prosecutors claimed.
A lab test result confirmed that 10 sachets of Angel Delight powdered dessert mix in Collyer’s luggage and seven similar sachets in his partner’s suitcase contained 993.56g, or over 2lbs, of cocaine, worth an estimated 6bn rupiah (£272,000), prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara told the District Court in the regional capital Denpasar.
Image: Britons, from left, Phineas Float, Jonathan Collyer, and Lisa Stocker appear in court in Bali accused of drug smuggling. Pic: AP
Image: Pic: AP
Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, was arrested two days later after police set up a controlled delivery in which the other two suspects allegedly handed him the drug in the parking area of a hotel in Denpasar. He is being tried separately.
The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia via Qatar, Mr Umbara said.
The group had successfully brought cocaine into the country twice before, Ponco Indriyo, the deputy director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit, told reporters in February.
Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad.
The trial was adjourned until next week, when the three-judge panel will hear witness evidence.
About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, according to figures from the country’s ministry of immigration and corrections.
Image: (L-R) Phineas Float, Jonathan Collyer, and Lisa Stocker. Pic: AP
One of them, Briton Lindsay Sandiford, now 69, has been on death row for more than a decade after 3.8kg of cocaine was found in her luggage in 2012.
Despite its strict laws, Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub, the UN has said, partly because international syndicates target its young population.
Last week, Thomas Parker, from Cumbria, was sentenced to 10 months in jail in Bali for drug offences after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped. He was accused of collecting a package containing MDMA from a motorcycle taxi driver on a nearby street.
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During the police inquiries, the 32-year-old electrician was able to prove he did not order the package but that it was sent by a drug dealer friend, identified only as Nicky, whom Parker had known for about two years and with whom he communicated via the Telegram messaging app.
Police reduced the initial charge of drug trafficking, which potentially carries the death sentence, to the less serious offence of hiding information from authorities.
An Australian man, Lamar Aaron Ahchee, 43, from Cairns in north Queensland, was arrested on 22 May after police allegedly seized 1.7kg (3.7lbs) of cocaine during a raid on his rented home in Kuta Beach.
A police chief said anti-drug surveillance teams reported Ahchee had received two suspicious packages sent by mail to Denpasar from England. He too could face the death penalty.
Tom Hanks has spoken out on daughter E.A. Hanks’ bombshell memoir about her troubled childhood.
The “Forrest Gump” actor, 68, opened up about the book, “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road,” for the first time during the red carpet premiere of his film “The Phoenician Scheme.”
Tom Hanks spoke about his daughter’s book. Sonia Moskowitz Gordon/ZUMA / SplashNews.comHanks opened up about his daughter’s surprising book. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
“I’m not surprised that my daughter had the wherewithal as well as the curiosity to examine this thing that I think she was incredibly honest about,” Hanks told “Access Hollywood” May 26. “We all come from checkered, cracked lives, all of us.”
“She’s a knockout, always has been,” he continued. “If you’ve had kids, you realize that you see who they are when they’re about 6 weeks old.”
Hanks has his daughter with his late ex-wife Samantha Lewes. Bei/Shutterstock
“Their personality is on display right there,” the “Cast Away” actor added, “their temper, the way they see the world is demonstrated in their body language and on their face.”
E.A. Hanks, who the “Big” star had with his late ex-wife Samantha Lewes, published her surprising memoir in April.
“I am a kid from the First (non-famous) Marriage,” Hanks’ 43-year-old daughter wrote. “My only memories of my parents in the same place at the same time are Colin’s high school graduation, then my high school graduation.”
E.A. opened up about her rocky early years and the “violence” and “deprivation” she experienced growing up. Instagram/eahanks
“I have one picture of me standing between my parents,” she added. “In it, my mother’s best wig is slightly askew.”
E.A.’s actress mother, whose real name was Susan Dillingham, passed away from cancer in 2002 at 49.
Dillingham and Hanks married in 1978 but separated in 1985, at which point she took E.A. and son, Colin to live in Sacramento. The couple officially divorced in 1987.
Hanks’ only daughter claimed that her mother physically abused her when she was a teenager. Instagram/eahanks
Although E.A. and Colin initially lived with their mother, the “custody arrangement basically switched” after Dillingham allegedly began physically abusing her daughter.
“The fridge was bare or full of expired food more often than not, and my mother spent more and more time in her big four-poster bed, poring over the Bible,” Hanks’ daughter wrote.
“One night, her emotional violence became physical violence,” she claimed, “and in the aftermath I moved to Los Angeles, right smack in the middle of the seventh grade.”
Hanks and E.A.’s mother divorced in 1987 after nine years of marriage. Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images
As for the title of her bombshell memoir, E.A. revealed that it was inspired by a six-month transcontinental journey she took in 2019 following a similar trip with her mother along the same route years before.
“When I was 14, my mother and I drove across America along Interstate 10 to Florida,” she explained, “in a Winnebago that lumbered along the asphalt with a rolling gait that felt nautical.”
“The 10” also followed E.A. as she sought to learn more about her late mom’s complicated life.
Hanks married Rita Wilson in 1988, and the couple welcomed Chet in 1990 and Truman in 1995. Getty Images
Hanks’ daughter also touched upon her relationship with her stepmother, Rita Wilson, and her half-brothers, Chet and Truman, in the book.
Hanks and Wilson, 68, married in 1988, one year after his divorce from Dillingham was finalized. They welcomed Chet, 34, in 1990 and Truman, 29, in 1995.
“Rita’s not really a stepmother, she’s my other mother,” E.A. told People shortly before her memoir was published. “When I say my parents, I really mean my dad and Rita, because they’ve been together since before I can really remember. They’ve been together since I was 4 or 5.”
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