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An off-duty NYPD officer rescued her 4-year-old son from a would-be kidnapper who snatched him from his grandmother outside a Brooklyn McDonald’s, authorities said Wednesday. The boy’s 66-year-old grandmother had been standing with the child outside the fast food restaurant…
A bone discovered on a Northern California beach in March has been identified through DNA testing as belonging to a commercial fisherman who vanished more than 25 years ago when a rogue wave destroyed his vessel in Humboldt Bay. Jonathan…
King Charles III has pushed back against explosive allegations from Princess Diana’s younger brother in a forthcoming memoir. The monarch’s spokesperson issued an unusually sharp statement after Charles Spencer, 60, the 9th Earl Spencer, claimed in “Swan Song: Diana, My…
A White House spokesperson is blasting a California college counselor who cheered as students decapitated a Donald Trump piñata in a video that spread online last week. Davis Ingle, a spokesperson for the Trump administration, ripped the scene at Contra…
NBC LA’s Chopper 4 was a Eurocopter AS 350 B2 Ecureuil, the same helicopter family involved in at least six fatal crashes worldwide this year. The aircraft, registration N358TV, went down last week while covering a collision between an SUV…
Chilling onboard footage has captured Los Angeles photo journalist Eliana Moreno’s final words before the NBC news helicopter she was riding in plummeted to the ground. Moreno, whose age was not reported, died Tuesday evening alongside pilot George Marciniw when…
Patrick Clancy is breaking his silence in a “60 Minutes” interview airing Sunday, his first since the hung jury in ex-wife Lindsay Clancy’s triple murder trial. CBS announced the exclusive sit-down with correspondent Ross Douthat, 45, and released a brief…
KJ Biermann’s release from jail will come with a stripped-down life under court order. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Melynee Leftridge amended the 15-year-old’s bond conditions on Sept. 15 to require he surrender his passport to his pretrial officer before…
Bailee Lynn Rios, 36, has been identified as the SUV driver accused of killing two people in a violent collision with a Los Angeles Metro bus. Rios was booked in connection with the deadly Tuesday crash and is being held…
H&M executives have agreed to sit down with PETA after a runway protest turned physical at New York Fashion Week. The meeting was secured Monday, a day after COS managing director Daniel Hermann, whose upscale label sits under the Swedish…
Newly surfaced photos show extensive destruction at American military installations across the Middle East, including the wreckage of a $270 million surveillance aircraft. The images, provided by active-duty personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, reveal shattered aircraft, flattened camps,…
A Georgia judge halted Stacey Humphries’ execution with hours to spare, granting him a chance to argue under a new state law. Cobb County Superior Court Judge Tyler Browning issued the stay late Tuesday after ruling that Humphries, 53, could…
Nicholas Brandram, 44, was found dead at his West London home while awaiting trial in the notorious “Putney Pusher” case. The former HSBC Private Bank senior manager and ex-British Army captain was discovered unresponsive inside his Chiswick property at approximately…
FBI Director Kash Patel defended eliminating bestiality as an automatic hiring disqualifier during heated Senate testimony this week. Patel, 45, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, September 15, where Republican senators pressed him on the policy shift. The…
Federal authorities say they have disrupted a Russian intelligence plot to assassinate a prominent dissident believed to be living in Washington, DC. Five people, all assumed to be living abroad, were charged in the conspiracy according to an indictment unsealed…
Philadelphia police are now examining more than one million images seized from a home once owned by an infamous pornographer, as a fifth missing woman has been identified in the sprawling investigation. The FBI has increased its agent count on…