The Daily Populous

Thursday April 19th, 2018 evening edition

image for Rio 2016: Of the 30 fastest 100m times ever, only nine were achieved by a clean athlete - and all were run by Usain Bolt

Bolt now stands on the verge of a historic triple triple (yes, you read that right).

Having already won the 100m, the 200m and the 4x100m relay at both Beijing and London, the Jamaican is looking to recreate the feat for a third, and probably final, time in Rio.

Of the 30 fastest 100m times ever, nine – including the top three – have been run by Bolt.

Incredible as it seems, the other 21 were run by athletes who have tested positive at some point in their careers for doping.

While the Jamaican turned to chicken nuggets, some of Bolt’s greatest rivals turned to drugs instead.

Indeed, Bolt’s main challenge in Sunday night came from America’s Justin Gatlin – the disgraced New York sprinter who tested positive for testosterone in April 2006.

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InfoWars' Alex Jones Says He's Been Defamed by Defamation Suits

Authored by bloomberg.com

Radio host Alex Jones is getting hit with a flurry of lawsuits over his conspiracy theories, including two defamation suits this week from parents of children killed at Sandy Hook elementary school in 2012.

“You’re allowed to question things in America, that’s not defamation,” Jones said Wednesday on his InfoWars broadcast.

Jones had derided the Sandy Hook shooting as fake and possibly staged by the government. »

911 operator who hung up on emergency calls is sentenced to jail

Authored by foxnews.com

A former 911 operator who hung up the phone "thousands" of times on people attempting to call in emergencies in Harris County, Texas has been sentenced to jail time.

She was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation.

Williams reportedly spent a year and a half at the Houston Emergency Center taking 911 calls. »

New drug uses antibodies to stop chronic migraines, without side effects

Authored by nbcnews.com

Of these, about 4 million have chronic migraine and suffer headaches for 10 to 14 days a month.

Researchers found that the drug reduced the average number of monthly migraine headaches by more than 50 percent for nearly a third of study participants.

She was put on Imitrex, a popular migraine drug that helps to quiet overactive pain nerves in the brain, but it didn't help. »