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The gyrocopter pilot speaks out and Sen. Claire McCaskill critiques Marco Rubio.

ByABC News
April 19, 2015, 7:18 PM
Doug Hughes flies his gyrocopter near the Wauchula Municipal Airport, March 17, 2015 in Wauchula, Fla.
Doug Hughes flies his gyrocopter near the Wauchula Municipal Airport, March 17, 2015 in Wauchula, Fla.
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— -- 1. Sen. Marco Rubio Folded on Immigration Reform, Says Sen. Claire McCaskill

Coming to the defense of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill took aim at recently declared Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio, saying the Florida senator "folded" on immigration reform after coming under pressure from the conservative wing of his party.

PHOTO: Sen. Claire McCaskill | Sen. Marco Rubio
Sen. Claire McCaskill in Washington, March 3, 2015 | Sen. Marco Rubio in National Harbor, Md., Feb. 27, 2015.

"If you look at Marco Rubio's record, he took a principled, courageous stand on immigration reform and we passed a comprehensive bill in the Senate," she said. "Then, the minute his party's base started chewing on him about it, the minute Rush Limbaugh criticized him, he folded like a cheap shotgun."

2. North Carolina Man's Obituary: Don't Vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016

PHOTO: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local residents at the Jones St. Java House in LeClaire, Iowa, April 14, 2015.

A North Carolina man may influence the 2016 presidential election from beyond the grave if his family gets their way.

Larry Darrell Upright, an "avid golfer" who loved his family, died Monday in Concord, North Carolina. He was 81.

Upright didn't, however, apparently have any love for Hillary Clinton.

"The family respectfully asks that you do not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016," read the obituary, which ran in the local newspaper. "R.I.P. Grandaddy."

3. Gyrocopter Pilot Expected to Be Stopped on Way to Capitol Lawn

The Florida mailman who flew a gyrocopter through restricted airspace and landed on the Capitol lawn last week said he expected to be stopped along the way.

Doug Hughes told reporters outside his home in Ruskin, Florida, early Sunday that his flight from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., went mostly as planned. He called landing on the Capitol lawn Wednesday as onlookers waved to him "surreal."

"It was amusing because people were not frightened at all. They looked at it and people waved to me," Hughes said. "People waved to me and I waved back. That part was surreal."

4. Gorilla at Omaha Zoo Cracks Glass After Charging Towards Family

Some zoo-goers were in for a surprise when a fully-grown male gorilla charged at them, cracking the glass of its exhibit in Omaha, Nebraska.

Visitors at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium captured the encounter on video Thursday. The gorilla charged the glass shortly after video showed a young girl pounding her chest.

The zoo said Kijito, a 24-year-old, 375-pound western lowland gorilla, cracked the first of three panes of glass.

5. New 'Star Wars: Episode VII' Stormtrooper Uniform Is the Main Attraction at Celebration

VIDEO: New Star Wars Episode VII Storm Trooper Uniform is the Main Attraction at Celebration
VIDEO: New Star Wars Episode VII Storm Trooper Uniform is the Main Attraction at Celebration

Almost as soon as Imperial Stormtroopers blasted their way onto the big screen in 1977, Star Wars fans have wanted to know where and how to get their own suit of ultra-cool white armor.

But you either had to have the serious skills needed to build your own or had to deal with an often confusing web of unauthorized armor builders with wildly varying reputations and quality.

But now a company called Anovos is bringing both the classic and the new Stormtrooper armor from "Star Wars: Episode VII -- The Force Awakens" to the masses -- for a price.