Former American footballer Will Smith shot dead in New Orleans

Former NFL athlete Will Smith was killed and his wife injured by a gunman who shot the retired football player several times after ramming into his car in New Orleans, police and a local media report said on Sunday.
Suspected shooter Cardell Hayes, 30, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, the New Orleans Police Department said in a Tweet.

Smith, 34, a retired defensive end with the National Football League's New Orleans Saints, was traveling in a Mercedes in the city's Lower Garden District shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Saturday when his car was rear-ended by a Hummer.
Smith exchanged words with the driver of the Hummer, who took out a handgun and shot him several times, New Orleans Police Department spokesman Juan Barnes said in a statement.
Smith played American football for the Saints for a decade, including in the team that won the Super Bowl in February 2010. His professional football career ended in 2014.
During the Saturday night incident, a 33-year-old woman who was with Smith was shot in the legs and taken to the hospital, the statement said. The Times-Picayune newspaper identified the woman as Smith's wife, but did not name her.
Police said the shooter stayed on the scene after the incident and that they recovered the weapon used.
Smith's family posted a brief statement on his Facebook page expressing thanks for the outpouring of support and asking for respect for their privacy.
Smith had three children and was married to Racquel Smith, according to the ex-player's official website.

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NASA's racing against time to fix $600 million spacecraft

NASA is scrambling to save a $600 million spacecraft that's gone into "emergency mode."

Experiencing what one researcher called a "spacecraft emergency," the Kepler space telescope is now rapidly burning through fuel, and NASA is running out of time to save it.

Engineers first discovered the telescope was in emergency mode Thursday, and believe it actually entered that stage at least a day before.

One of the biggest obstacles engineers now face is Kepler is 75 million miles from Earth. Even at the speed of light, signals take 13 minutes to go between Kepler and NASA's home base.


It's unclear what's exactly wrong with the spacecraft, but it might not be an easy fix. NASA scientists will have to find a way to repair Kepler with whatever the spacecraft already has on it.


Engineers fixed a different major problem in 2013 by using pressure from sunlight to keep Kepler steady.
NASA's poured a huge amount of money into the Kepler project. The spacecraft launched in 2009 and was only supposed to take four years. But severe breakdowns and hard-to-read data have plagued the mission.


The space telescope's mission is to search for planets that could potentially hold life. By the beginning of 2016, Kepler had found 1,000 of those planets.

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The 17 best places to go this May

Looking for May vacation ideas? From art festivals to mega shark encounters, here are the best places to take a vacation in May.

Some of the world's biggest events, like the Cannes Film Festival, Kentucky Derby, Indy 500 and Cinco de Mayo take place this month. Other destinations, like Namibia and Western Australia, offer spectacular wildlife encounters. And then there's that crazy "chase a wheel a cheese down a hill" tradition in England.


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Janet Jackson announces 'my husband and I are planning our family'; postpones European tour

Janet Jackson has been forced to postpone the dates on her Unbreakable world tour once again. But on Wednesday morning (Apr. 6), the 49-year-old music icon gave a very happy reason for keeping her European fans waiting. "We're in the second leg of the tour and there actually has been a sudden change. I thought it was important that you be the first to know," Jackson announced in a nearly two-minute video posted on Twitter.
Pausing and taking a deep breath, Jackson, dressed all in white, revealed with a smile, "my husband and I are planning our family. I'm gonna have to delay the tour. Please if you can try and understand that it's important that I do this now. I have to rest up, doctor's orders." Jackson did not use the word "pregnant" in the clip. She and third husband, Qatari businessman Wissam Al Mana, 41, were married in 2012.


Jackson, was due to resume her tour in Birmingham, England, on March 30 after previously postponing a string of 29 U.S. dates to reportedly receive surgery for an undisclosed illness; Jackson denied rumors that she was suffering from cancer. One month ago, Jackson's European dates were suddenly removed from Ticketmaster's site and the dates were canceled.
The singer thanked her dancers, her band, her crew and promoter Live Nation, saying, "I can't wait for us to get started again."

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Want a better job? Make better Facebook friends

The strength of your relationships on Facebook could be important when it comes to your ability to find a job, a recent study published in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests, though the relationship is somewhat nuanced.
The study, published in January, looked at whether "strong" or "weak" personal ties on Facebook were the most useful when it comes to finding a job. Researchers used photo tags and walls posts to measure tie strength, or how close the relationships actually were.
So, the better friends you are with someone in real life, the more likely they are to help you out in your job search.
Here's where the data from this Journal of Labor Economics study gets tricky. Researchers noted that a person's Facebook network is not an exact representation of their real life network, and that a large amount of unobservable contact takes place outside of Facebook. However, despite these shortcomings, Facebook interaction is a good predictor of real-world tie strength. And while good friends are powerful, the "weaker" friends can be as well.
"When looking at the collective power of weak ties, we find weak ties matter most," researchers said. "But, when we look individually at all a person's social connections, we find that a single strong tie is more influential than a single weak tie."
How does that work?
The study concluded that there are actually very few strong ties on Facebook, but when they exist, they are "associated with a higher probability of job help."
"Weak ties are important in aggregate because they are numerous," researchers reported, "while single strong ties are scarce but associated with a higher probability of job help."
Researchers suggested there's an easy way to take advantage of this when looking for your next job.
"A person is more likely to work with a weaker tie because weaker ties collectively make up most of a person's social network," researchers said. "But, strengthening an existing tie should increase the probability that you will work with that specific friend."
If you are looking for a better job, it can be helpful to keep an eye on your credit reports as they may end up being part of your evaluation during the hiring process. It's a hotly contested subject, but employers are allowed to check your credit reports before they hire you. You can get started by checking out your free credit report summary every month on Credit.com. And you can get copies of your credit reports for free once a year from each of the major credit reporting agencies.

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Paris Jackson dedicates new tattoo to her father Michael: 'He was the king of my heart'

Paris Jackson rang in her 18th birthday with some fresh ink, dedicated to her famous father, Michael Jackson.
Paris, who celebrated the milestone birthday on Sunday, took to Instagram on Tuesday to show off her new tattoo, consisting of the words "Queen of my heart" in her dad's handwriting, inked down the side of her left wrist.
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"To everyone else he was the King of Pop. To me, well, he was the king of my heart," Paris captioned the sweet, black-and-white snapshot.
Justin Lewis, the tattoo artist who did the work, also shared a pic of Paris, who was accompanied by her cousin, singer-songwriter Austin Brown.
"Paris Michael Jackson got her tattoo today," Lewis wrote in the caption. "Letters from her father, so sweet."

Paris, who was 11 when her father died of a propofol overdose at age 50 in June 2009, has previously mentioned wanting to get a tattoo to honor her father.
Back in 2012, Paris -- then 14 years old -- wrote in a tweet that has since been deleted, "I kinda want to get August XXIX tatted on my back," in reference to Michael's birthday on Aug. 29, 1958.

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