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Naomi Osaka.Photo: Clive Brunskill/GettyNaomi Osakais ready to keep winning.Osaka, who is competing for Japan, won her second-round match at the Tokyo Summer Olympics on Monday, defeating Switzerland’s Viktorija Golubic in two sets, 6-3, 6-2.“Honestly, I feel like I was a bit more nervous before the match,” Osaka told reporters afterwards. “I felt a lot of butterflies, but I think as I started playing and feeling more comfortable, I knew that no matter what it would be a great match....

Nastia Liukin.Photo: Jamie Schwaberow/Getty Images for USOPC Nastia Liukincalls Team USA’s women’s gymnastics roster the “hardest team to make in the world” — and she should know. Liukin, as a five-time Olympic medalist, is more than qualified to help audiences understand the scores and routines of Team USA’s gymnasts. On top of that, the NBC Sports broadcaster, 31, often uses her own experience as a former all-around champion to inform fans of what the gymnasts might be thinking as well as what pressures the athletes could be feeling....

Photo: Chris Unger/Getty Las Vegas Raiders rookie Nate Hobbs was arrested for misdemeanor DUI early Monday morning, according to reports, following his team’s win against the Indianapolis Colts. He was arrested after he failed a field sobriety test, ESPN andLas Vegas Review-Journalreport. A spokesperson for the Raiders toldNFL.comthat the team is “aware of the incident.” “The organization has been in communication with local law enforcement and is in the process of gathering more information,” the statement read, per NFL....

Photo: Mitchell Layton/Getty It’s family first for Daniel Hudson. The Washington Nationals pitcher, 32, was notably absent for Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Friday. Multiple outlets report that the athlete went home to Arizona towitness the birth of his third daughter, Millie, with wife Sara, before hopping on an early-morning flight Saturday to play in Game 2 in St. Louis. Aside from Ohanian, 36, many others jumped to Hudson’s defense....

Porsche Williams.Photo: Courtesy Porsche Williams A Navy veteran who struggled with her own mental health has launched asuicideprevention organization to help others who may be experiencing the same challenges. Porsche Williams tells PEOPLE she startedRestore Life Globalin 2018 after experiencing her own mental health challenges stemming from her time serving in the Navy during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom war. “Between trauma from deployment and military sexual trauma, I developed PTSD,” she explains....

Neil deGrasse Tyson is once again criticizing films from a scientific lens, this time setting his sights onthe biggest animated film of all time, Disney’sFrozen 2. On Sunday, the acclaimed astrophysicisttweeted, “Not that anybody asked, but if Elsa from “Frozen” has a Human-sized Head then she has Horse-sized Eyeballs — occupying 4x the normal volume within her cranium.” The tweet was met with criticism with many pointing out that the film is simply an animated feature and does not need to be 100% accurate....

NeNe Leakesmight not be done withThe Real Housewives of Atlantaafter all! Leakes, 53,revealed her interestin returning to the Bravo show on Thursday during an appearance onThe Real, noting that she has some “unfinished business” to address. “Yeah, sure. I’ll return to the show,” Leakes told hosts Loni Love andReal Housewives of Beverly HillsstarGarcelle Beauvais. “I’m okay with returning to the show as long as we can work through a few things....

NeNe Leakesfinally made her first appearance in season 12 ofThe Real Housewives of Atlantaon Sunday — though the reality star was in a much better space than she was when viewers last saw her. “I am definitely not the same NeNe as I was last year,” NeNe, 51, said in the episode. Much of that had to do with the fact that NeNe’s husband, Gregg Leakes, was finally cancer-free aftera grueling battle with stage 3 colon cancerthat nearly ended their marriage....

Byron Manning.Photo: North Las Vegas Metropolitan PoliceLate last week, authorities in North Las Vegas arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly killing his ex-girlfriend’s brother, then calling her to torment her about it.Through online records, PEOPLE confirms that Byron Manning was charged on Friday with a single count of murder.Manning remains in police custody without bail, and his public defender could not be reached for comment Friday.Manning had been a suspect in the shooting death of Ronald Moore, 34, according to North Las Vegas Police....

Netflix isn’t waiting to reveal the fate of the original yellow power ranger Trini inMighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always. The trailer also shows the moment Trini dies, with Rita telling the heroes, “After all these years, I’ve got a new body. It’s time for revenge.” NETFLIX She uses a weapon to to create a shock and blast that leads to Trini’s final breath. Later in the trailer, the Blue Power Ranger (David Yost) discovers that Rita has created a time portal so they can go back in time before they had powers....

Photo: Escondido Police Department/Facebook Things recently came full circle for Natalie Young, a new deputy with Colorado’s El Paso County Sheriff’s Office. Officer Jeff Valdivia was on a routine call to arrest a parole violator at a residence where conditions were so dire that he filed for protective custody for an infant he encountered there. “You hope there are no gaps in the system and you hope everything works the way it’s supposed to,” he added of the decision to remove the child from the home....

Photo: Courtesy Bill English Bill English, of Bellmawr, New Jersey, has a new lease on life after a stranger saw his wife’s desperate Facebook plea for a kidney donor and stepped up to help the ailing father of two. English, 35, says he was prepared for the worst in 2015 when he learned his kidneys were failing. That’s when his wife, Laura English, stepped up and started a Facebook page, then-called “Be Our Daddy’s Hero” in an effort to find a kidney donor for her husband....

Tahesha Way.Photo:Kevin R. Wexler/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK Kevin R. Wexler/NorthJersey.com / USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey Gov.Phil Murphynamed a new lieutenant governor on Friday, roughly one month after former Lt. Gov.Sheila Oliverdied in the hospital from an undisclosed medical issue. “With Sheila gone, it is now our turn to keep her legacy alive,” Murphy said in astatement announcing his pick to fill the role: New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way....