Iowa State running back Breece Hall is The Associated Press Big 12 offensive player of the year for the second year in a row.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ousted vaccine specialist Rick Bright, Ph.D., is making more bombshell comments as he prepares to testify before Congress Thursday. Bright has already claimed he was retaliated against for recommending against the use of Hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug pushed by the President Trump. Trumps has said he does not know of Bright, one of the Trump Administration's top researchers. Model predicts jump in deathsMeanwhile, as 45 states are easing restrictions to re-open, a new model used by the White House is now showing 147,000 COVID-19 deaths by August. From the safety of the White House where testing is available every day, Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, dismissed the warnings.

(CNN) - A unique species of crocodile lives in New Guinea, but in 1989, a researcher suspected that there may be more to the story on the tropical island. But the large island north of Australia is divided by a mountain range, creating distinct habitats in the north and south. They attended a talk that raised Hall's research and asked for help to finish the investigation distinguishing between the New Guinea crocodiles. "Our work adds to this with additional morphological insight into how distinctive these two species of crocodiles." The crocodile species in the south has now been declared a separate species and the researchers named it Crocodylus halli in honor of Philip Hall.