Sam Moore, one half of the 1960s duo Sam & Dave, has died. He was 89. 

According to Moore’s rep, the late singer – best known for hits such as “Soul Man” and “Hold On, I’m Comin,'” – died Friday morning in Coral Gables, Florida, due to complications while recovering from surgery.

His singing partner Dave Prater died in a car accident in 1988. 

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The soul and R&B duo performed together for nearly two decades starting in the early 1960s. Best known for their high energy and gospel-infused performances, the duo became an influence for a number of artists including Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and more. 

In the 1980s, the Blues Brothers – comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi – put soul and blues back on the map after covering Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man” on ‘Saturday Night Live’. They often paid homage to Sam & Dave during their act as well. 

Moore was born Oct. 12, 1935, in Miami, Florida and kickstarted his singing career in church. 

Moore battled a drug addiction in the 1970s. (Getty Images)

He and Prater performed in soul and R&B clubs in the 1950s, but didn’t meet until 1961 in Miami, according to the Associated Press. 

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The duo had a contentious relationship towards the end of their run. Moore sued Prater after Prater began touring with a new bandmate as the New Sam & Dave, according to the AP. 

Sam & Dave began their run in the 1960s.  (Getty Images)

Moore battled a drug addiction throughout the 1970s, which eventually impacted his career. His wife, Joyce, helped him get treatment for his addiction. After finding sobriety, Moore started taking jobs he never anticipated. 

“I did a lot of cruise ships, I did a lot of oldies shows,” he once told the AP. 

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“That’s funny to think back to it now. And I did a lot of shows where if I did a show with an oldie show, I had to actually audition,” he said. “But you know what? You keep your mouth shut and you get up there and you sing as hard and perform as hard as you can, and get the little money and go on about your business and try and pay those bills. I’m laughing about it now, but at that time, man, it was really serious.”

Moore is survived by his wife, Joyce, daughter, Michell, and two grandchildren.

It might be worth working a little bit harder to get that much-desired but often elusive good night’s sleep.

Deep sleep clears the mind of waste just as a “dishwasher” cleans dirty plates and glasses, just-published research suggests — and there’s more.

The findings also offer insights into how sleeping pills may disrupt the “brainwashing” system — potentially affecting cognitive function for people over the long run.

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Study senior author professor Maiken Nedergaard of the University of Rochester, New York, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, said norepinephrine (a neurotransmitter and hormone) triggers blood vessels to contract — generating slow pulsations that create a rhythmic flow in the surrounding fluid to carry away waste, news agency SWNS noted.

Said Nedergaard, “It’s like turning on the dishwasher before you go to bed and waking up with a clean brain … We’re essentially asking what drives this process and trying to define restorative sleep based on” this “glymphatic clearance.”

The brain has a built-in waste removal process – the glymphatic system – that circulates fluid in the brain and spinal cord to clear out waste, per the scientists. 

The process helps remove toxic proteins that form sticky plaques linked to neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease.

But the scientists indicated that what drives the system was unclear until now, according to the study.

Is all sleep created equal? The researchers wanted to find out.

To find clues, Nedergaard and her team looked into what happens in mice when the brain sleeps, as SWNS reported of the study. The team focused on the relationship between norepinephrine and blood flow during deep sleep.

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They found that norepinephrine waves correlate to variations in brain blood volume — suggesting norepinephrine triggers a rhythmic pulsation in the blood vessels. The researchers then compared the changes in blood volume to brain fluid flow.

The brain fluid flow fluctuates in correspondence to blood volume changes — suggesting the vessels act as pumps to propel the surrounding brain fluid to flush out waste.

During deep sleep, toxic proteins that form sticky plaques linked to neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease are removed, scientists say in a new study.  (iStock)

Natalie Hauglund of the University of Copenhagen and the University of Oxford, the study’s lead author, said, “You can view norepinephrine as [the] conductor of an orchestra.” 

She added, “There’s a harmony in the constriction and dilation of the arteries, which then drives the cerebrospinal fluid through the brain to remove the waste products.”  

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Hauglund said she wanted to understand if all sleep is created equal. 

To find out, the research team administered zolpidem, a common drug to aid sleep, to mice.

“If people aren’t getting the full benefits of sleep, they should be aware of that so they can make informed decisions.” 

They found that the norepinephrine waves during deep sleep were 50% lower in zolpidem-treated mice than in naturally sleeping mice. 

Although the zolpidem-treated mice fell asleep faster — fluid transport into the brain dropped more than 30%, as SWNS reported.

Two new studies indicate the importance of getting a good night’s sleep — with one study saying a lack of sleep may be sabotaging the brain’s ability to keep intrusive thoughts at bay. (iStock)

The researchers say their findings, published in the journal Cell, suggest that the sleeping aid may disrupt the norepinephrine-driven waste clearance during sleep.

Hauglund said, “More and more people are using sleep medication, and it’s really important to know if that’s healthy sleep. If people aren’t getting the full benefits of sleep, they should be aware of that so they can make informed decisions.” 

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The research team said the findings likely apply to humans, who also have a glymphatic system, although it requires further testing.

Nedergaard added, “Now we know norepinephrine is driving the cleaning of the brain, we may figure out how to get people a long and restorative sleep.”

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Meanwhile, a lack of sleep may be doing more damage than just making people groggy.

It could be sabotaging the brain’s ability to keep intrusive thoughts at bay.

Anyone who suffers from sleep deprivation may find that the brain’s defense against unwanted memories is weakened, say experts. (iStock)

Another new study, this one published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that sleep deprivation weakens the brain’s defense against unwanted memories, allowing them to flood the mind, according to the New York Post. 

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“We show that sleep deprivation disrupts prefrontal inhibition of memory retrieval, and that the overnight restoration of this inhibitory mechanism is associated with time spent in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep,” the scientists said.

As a former military intelligence officer, serving in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), I tracked foreign threats to the U.S. homeland, identifying adversaries’ plans, intentions and capabilities that could harm Americans. I predicted Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than a year before it took place. In March, in my Fox News Digital article titled “Ignore FBI director’s urgent warning about terrorist threats at our own peril,” I predicted terrorist attacks striking inside the U.S. homeland, the kind that took place on New Year’s Day in New Orleans and in Las Vegas.

Here are the top three reasons why we will likely face more terrorism in America this year. This time, it will be something we haven’t seen before.

Bureaucratic Inertia Stifles Defense Against Threats

Bureaucratic inertia prevents government agencies from acting on threats they themselves identify and warn about. During last year’s annual congressional briefing on the top “worldwide threats” facing the United States, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned that terrorist threats have reached a “whole other level” from the already heightened situation. Wray mentioned the “elevated” threat posed by “homegrown violent extremists, that is jihadist-inspired, extremists, domestic violent extremists, foreign terrorist organizations, and state-sponsored terrorist organizations.” 

He also specifically called out violent gangs and smugglers with ties to ISIS entering the country via the southern border. This was in March 2024. 

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Wray’s concerns, however, did not translate into an augmented security posture that should have been adopted by intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies, and could have avoided the tragic events in New Orleans and Las Vegas, and saved American lives. 

Millions of migrants, predominantly military-age males, including criminals, terrorists and foreign intelligence operatives, continued to pour into our country. The highly dangerous transnational criminal gang from Venezuela, Tren de Aragua, has established operations in 16 states, including New Jersey and New York, as of November. They’re attacking Americans, at will.

To this day, the border has not been fully secured, enabling millions of illegal crossings, straining local law enforcement and making communities unsafe. The notorious free mobile application called the CBP One app, continues to be widely available on the Apple App Store and Google Play. Foreigners of all stripes who wish to enter the United States use it to schedule interview appointments, conducted remotely, to qualify for asylum status and entry to our country. All of this is courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). 

Did the FBI implement any of the 18 recommendations made by the 2012 William Webster Commission to improve and detect terrorist threats? What actions, if any, were taken following Wray’s March warning? These are fair questions for Americans to ask of their government. Especially given that we’ve had two assassination attempts on President-elect Trump, mysterious drone overflights over our military installations, and rampant crime committed by members of a transnational criminal gang – all since March.

FBI Director Christopher Wray arrives to testify during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on June 4, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

‘Over-the-horizon’ threats seemingly ignored

There’s a whole new threat that is looming over the horizon. And it hasn’t even hit the government’s to-do-list yet. Drone warfare is a prime example of such an emerging threat, which is driven by the democratization of high-tech capabilities, such as uncrewed aircraft systems (UASs). UAS is a general term for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV – aircraft or drone), but it encompasses the UAV’s entire operating system, including a ground control station (hosting the pilot operating the UAV); communication hardware (linking the UAV and controller); payload (cameras, sensors, explosives, etc.); and flight planning software.

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UASs easily present the most dangerous threat our homeland has ever faced for three reasons. They are commercially available, relatively inexpensive, highly maneuverable, extremely difficult to identify and characterize, and have virtually unlimited payload capacity. You can outfit a UAS with a non-kinetic payload, such as a sensor or a camera, or with a kinetic or lethal capability, such as an explosive device, a bomb, or a WMD (chemical, biological, radiological). 

A masked Islamic State terrorist holds the ISIS flag in 2015.  (History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Originally employed by our military for surveillance purposes and then later as a counterterrorism tool to eliminate terrorist leaders, drones are now widely available and used, including by terrorists. Drone warfare is being operationalized and perfected in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and in combat zones in the Middle East.

Drones are a perfect capability to strike soft targets and crowded places, which the homeland is full of. Here’s what a 2023 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security noted: “The growing use of UASs in both the private sector and government operations likely means that more people will have access to these systems in the future and the expertise to operate them, making the use of UASs for attacks increasingly likely.” The study highlighted the fact that “UASs can also give the operator the ability to act anonymously and a greater chance to avoid detection and capture.” This characteristic can be very attractive to terrorists as well as state actors who are U.S. adversaries.

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As early as 2018, the U.S. government knew about the drone threat. Kirstjen M. Nielsen, then secretary of Homeland Security, wrote in a Washington Post article, “The U.S. isn’t prepared for the growing threat of drones,” and was defenseless against them. She even revealed that “terrorist groups such as the Islamic State aspire to use armed drones against our homeland and U.S. interests overseas.” 

And yet, to this day, we remain vulnerable to drone attacks. It became very obvious to everyone just how defenseless we still are to such attacks during the recent mysterious drone incidents. For weeks since November, unidentified drones were reportedly flying over military sites and critical infrastructure facilities in multiple East Coast states, including New Jersey and New York, and neither federal nor state security agencies put an end to it. The White House and the Pentagon even admitted not knowing the origin of those drones.

A Ukrainian air intelligence soldier carries a drone in the direction of Bakhmut, Ukraine, on May 10, 2024. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Politicization of intelligence drives shift to the wrong targets

The entire government security apparatus is now politicized, having shifted its focus from foreign threats, such as terrorists, to American dissidents. Instead of identifying and stopping those who are hell-bent on harming Americans, our government agencies have been targeting our own citizens who oppose the spread of woke ideologies in our society. Catholics, whose religious convictions prevent them from accepting things like transgenderism, and parents, who protest against the brainwashing of their children in leftist ideologies, such as the critical race theory (CRT), engulfing our public schools, are now viewed by government agencies as domestic threat actors.

This heinous politicization comes from the very top. President Biden has been minimizing the terrorist threat to the homeland, including that emanating from ISIS. In June 2021, Biden said: “According to the intelligence community, terrorism from White supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al Qaeda – White supremacists.” Is it any wonder that the FBI agent-in-charge initially ruled out any links between the New Orleans attacker and terrorism or ISIS? That despite the fact that the attacker, 42- year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas, had an ISIS flag installed on his Ford pickup, which he intentionally rammed into a group of civilians celebrating the New Year in the French Quarter, killing 14. 

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor convicted in the shooting deaths of 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 5, 2009. (U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences via Getty Images)

Similarly, the FBI failed to identify an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan, who in 2009 shot and killed 13 people and injured 31 at Fort Hood, Texas, as someone involved in terrorist activities – despite the fact that Hasan was in regular contact with a known terrorist, Anwar al-Awlaki. In his correspondence, Hasan, an American-born Muslim, discussed suicide bombers, and whether it is permissible for “the killing of innocents for a valuable target.” 

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According to a 2012 Report of the William Webster Commission on the FBI, Counterrorism, Intelligence and the Events at Fort Hood, Texas on Nov. 5, 2009, the FBI agents on the San Diego Joint Terrorism Task Force were aware that Hasan had contacted al-Awlaki numerous times before the shooting spree. Nevertheless, the FBI field office in Washington determined that Hasan “was not involved in terrorist activities.” The FBI therefore did not issue a warning about Hasan’s terrorist links to the Department of the Army and the Pentagon, both of which classified the incident as workplace violence and not an act of terrorism. The 2012 report made 18 formal recommendations to the FBI to improve and detect terrorist threats.

The incoming Trump administration promised to de-politicize government agencies. Nominating Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat, as the Director of National Intelligence, as part of a Republican administration is a step in the right direction. Intelligence is supposed to be nonpartisan. Intelligence officers should not fear to speak truth to power even if their analytic line contradicts the sitting president’s policies. But eradicating government’s inertia will be a much taller order. Let’s see, if DOGE can compel government bureaucrats to mount defenses against the drone threat and save Americans.

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A company that monitors electrical activity says faults along the Los Angeles power grid skyrocketed in the same areas where three of this week’s major wildfires are currently raging.

Bob Marshall, the chief executive of Whisker Labs, told Fox News Digital that the company recorded sharp increases in faults in the hours prior to the Eaton, Palisades and Hurst Fires.

Marshall said that his company has a network of around 14,000 sensors known as “ting” sensors across Los Angeles that can pinpoint and identify faults generated by electrical arcs. Through its network of sensors in homes, Whisker Labs is able to monitor the electric utility grid with “extraordinary precision and accuracy.”

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“Faults are caused by tree limbs touching wires or wires blowing in the wind and touching. That creates a spark in a fault, and we detect all of those things,” Marshall explained. 

Other causes include faulty electric equipment igniting, a sudden surge in demand or earthquake tremors. At the time the fires ignited, intense Santa Ana winds were blowing across Los Angeles.  

The company’s data, which was shared with Fox News Digital, is startling. 

In the Palisades area, the largest of the fires currently raging, there were 63 faults in the two to three hours prior to the ignition of the fire, Marshall said. There were 18 faults registered in the hour it began on Tuesday. 

The blaze has so far torched 12,300 homes and buildings across the area. Across the county, the death toll has risen to 11 people, and authorities anticipate that number rising.

“In the case of the Eaton Fire near Altadena, there’s 317 grid faults that occurred in the hours preceding the ignition,” Marshall said. “And then in the Hurst Fire, there’s about 230 faults that occurred that we measured on the sensor network.”

He said on a typical day there are very few faults.

Bob Marshall, the CEO and co-founder of Whisker labs, holding a “ting” sensor. (Fox News Digital)

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Sparks from faults can fall to the ground and ignite vegetation, essentially setting a match on the landscape. High winds then carry the flames at rapid speeds.

Investigators have yet to determine what sparked the raging wildfires that have decimated large areas of Los Angeles, but a jump in faults on the power grid may serve as vital clues. 

“Importantly, what we cannot say is one of those is whether one of those faults caused the fire. We don’t know that,” Marshall said. “What we know from our data is that there were increasing faults in the grid in the area around where those fires ignited.”

He said the data shows that the power was not shut off immediately when the faults were rising. 

“But again, we can’t say definitively at all whether one of those faults caused a fire. I do want to be very, very clear about that,” he added.

Marshall said that Whisker Labs has had discussions with utility companies about using its data, but currently, the data is not being shared.

Right now, ting sensors notify homeowners of a surge in power so they can take preventative measures to prevent house fires. Marshall said the company has a network of about one million ting sensors across the U.S.

“A power surge can cause damage to appliances and devices. In the worst case, it can cause a fire in a home,” Marshall said. 

He said the “smart and super sophisticated” technology can prevent 80% of potential house fires.

A home is engulfed in flames during the Eaton Fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles County, California, on Jan. 8, 2025. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

When the sensor picks up a fault, the home sensor is notified via an app, and then they can arrange for an electrician to call and make the necessary fixes.

“We take 30 million electrical measurements every second. There’s AI (artificial intelligence) in the sensor, [and] we stream data to a cloud that is specifically designed to detect electrical faults inside of homes,” he continued. “And then the network of sensors detects faults on the grid because when there’s a fault on the grid it is simultaneously measured by many ting sensors in a community. So if there’s a fault in your home, that fault doesn’t propagate out to the whole community, we only detect it on one single thing sensor in your home.”

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Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power didn’t proactively turn off the power to mitigate the risk of starting a fire ahead of this week’s devastating wildfires, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing regulatory filings.

The preventative measure is in place with every other big California power company after utilities have sparked wildfires in the past, the Journal reported.

An LADWP spokesperson told the Journal that they have other safety precautions in place, such as disabling technology that automatically restores power after an outage. She added that widespread preventative power outages could also be harmful to emergency services.

Fox News’ Brie Stimson contributed to this report.