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A 49-year-old Methuen man has died and a 47-year-old Methuen woman is in critical condition after several swimmers were rescued — some by a good samaritan from Boston — from a rip current Sunday off Seabrook Beach.

She’s a social media manager for an arts-and-crafts company, and somehow became a target of a secret TSA surveillance program.

Sheryl Waldman lived a reclusive life with her sister, Lynda, in their family’s old home on Clinton Road in Brookline. Over the years she faded from view until she vanished, and no one seemed to notice — until one cold evening last December.

Darren Beattie, who was a visiting instructor at Duke University before he joined the White House staff, was fired Friday after a media inquiry about his appearance at the 2016 H.L. Mencken Club conference.

Actress Asia Argento paid $380,000 to a man who said she sexually assaulted him when he was 17, according to court filings.