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UFC fighting cage rises on White House lawn for bout celebrating America's 250th anniversary

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Yet another White House construction project is underway, though this one is meant to be only temporary. Crews are erecting an octagon-shaped cage on the South Lawn that will host next month's UFC bout, helping mark the nation's 250th anniversary — and President Donald Trump 's 80th birthday. Online renderings depict what the completed, wire-mesh-fence-ringed fight space is expected to look like ahead of the June 14 event. It will be ringed by a red, white and blue stage under a towering arch featuring stars and stripes patterns and two large screens carrying ...

Claude Lemieux, four-time Stanley Cup champion for Avalanche, dies at 60

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Claude Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup champion whose ferocious, hard-hitting style of play angered opponents and sometimes overshadowed his prodigious skills and ability to deliver in the biggest games, has died after taking his own life, according to authorities. He was 60. The Palm Beach County Sherriff's Office said Thursday that deputies responded just after 3 a.m. to the scene of an apparent suicide at the family's furniture store in Lake Park, Florida. The office said the victim was believed to be Lemieux, who was found in a rear warehouse by one of his sons. The NHL Alumni ...

Kyle Busch had pneumonia for 'days to weeks,' according to his death certificate

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch died last week from hemorrhagic shock and disseminated intravascular coagulation after complications from bacterial pneumonia led to sepsis, according to the former NASCAR star's death certificate. Busch had been experiencing symptoms of bacterial pneumonia for "days to weeks" before sepsis set in, according to the certificate obtained by The Associated Press in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The manner of death was listed as "natural." The death certificate also said Busch, who was 41, was cremated in Mooresville, North Carolina, following ...