2024 NFL Mock Draft: Raiders swing late-round deal to land QB; Jayden Daniels nearly falls out of the top 5

USC • Jr • 6’1″ / 215 lbs Projected Team Chicago PROSPECT RNK 2nd POSITION RNK 1st PAYDS 3633 RUYDS 121 INTS 5 TDS 41 The easiest mock draft pick to project since the Jags taking Trevor Lawrence. A no-brainer at No. 1. North Carolina • Soph • 6’4″ / 230 lbs Projected Team Washington PROSPECT RNK 5th POSITION RNK 2nd PAYDS 3608 RUYDS 449 INTS 9 TDS 33 The betting markets have shifted to Daniels going second overall but we still thought C.J. Stroud was going first overall around this time last year. Michigan • Jr • 6’3″ /…

residents warned to clear land

80 firefighters deployed to stop blaze spreading due to strong wind The fire was declared between Perpignan and Villeneuve-de-la-Raho on April 16BAO-Images Bildagentur / Shutterstock / Googlemaps A wildfire broke out yesterday (April 16) in the south of France requiring 80 firefighters and several fire trucks to prevent it from spreading due to the strong north-westerly wind. The fire started between Perpignan and Villeneuve-de-la-Raho in the Pyrénées-Orientales just before 17:00. One year ago to the day, on April 16, 2023, similar conditions helped to spread a devastating wildfire near the Spanish border at Cerbère Pyrénées-Orientales, which destroyed 1,000 hectares of…

2024 Toyota Land Cruiser First Drive Review: Brief taste shows promise, but 1958 questionable

BARRETT JUNCTION, Calif. – This may be our literal first drive of the all-new 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser, but we’ll be trying to get one for a more substantive test as soon as possible. Our drive was limited to a few laps of a specially created off-road course, and not even an especially long one, plus a half-hour of road time on a winding rural highway with long sweepers and hefty grades. In short, this was not the venue for a thorough or fair evaluation, even within the usually limited scope of a typical first drive event. The story of…