Gil Gerard, Star of ‘Buck Rogers,’ Dies at 82

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Podcast host says left-leaning politicians not doing enough to stop ‘monsters’ mauling cats, dogs and livestock

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Football fans won’t have to worry about missing kick-off while travelling

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With a blend of retro-futurism, moral ambiguity and monster-filled wastelands, Fallout season 2 became an unlikely prestige television favourite. Now there is something a bigger, stranger and funnier journey ahead
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The Fallout TV series returns to Prime Video today, and it’s fair to say that everyone was pleasantly surprised by how good the first season was. By portraying Fallout’s retro-futuristic, post-apocalyptic US through three different characters, it managed to capture different aspects of the game player’s experience, too. There was vault-dweller Lucy, trying to do the right thing and finding that the wasteland made that very difficult; Max, the Brotherhood of Steel rookie, who starts to question his cult’s authority and causes a lot of havoc in robotic power armour; and the Ghoul, Walton Goggins’s breakout character, who has long since lost any sense of morality out in the irradiated wilderness.
The show’s first season ended with a revelation about who helped cause the nuclear war that trapped a group of people in underground vaults for a couple of centuries. It also left plenty of questions open for the second season – and, this time, expectations are higher. Even being “not terrible” was a win for a video game adaptation until quite recently. How are the Fallout TV show’s creators feeling now that the first season has been a success?
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Former WBRC sports reporter Christina Chambers and her husband were found dead in their home in Hoover, with a family member raising the alarm around 9am on Tuesday

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Melinda Pereira says that she knew ‘something felt off’ before falling unconscious and waking up in the hospital

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The Northern Irishman held off DeChambeau before a nail-biting finish in a play-off with Justin Rose to win the green jacket and complete the career grand slam

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The duke, a relative of Sir Winston Churchill and Princess Diana, is due to appear in court on Thursday

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