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Adm. Brad Cooper praised the USS Abraham Lincoln crew as “tired” but still “firing on all cylinders” after reports of sailors attempting to jump overboard. Cooper, 59, the head of Tampa, Fla.-based U.S. Central Command, visited the aircraft carrier in…
Hayden Panettiere’s final interviews about her custody decision are resurfacing after her death at age 36. The “Heroes” alum, 36, spoke extensively about giving up custody of daughter Kaya, 11, to ex-fiancé Wladimir Klitschko, 49, in the months before she…
The family of a missing Brooklyn woman says someone is using her phone to demand bitcoin after she vanished in Las Vegas. Alisa Goods, 63, was reported missing on August 10 after leaving her friend’s apartment near the Las Vegas…
First Lady Melania Trump has facilitated her 34th family reunification of children displaced by the Russia-Ukraine war, her office announced Monday. The latest reunion involved a Ukrainian girl and her family, bringing the total to 34 children returned through the…
A 19-year-old Australian tourist was stabbed and critically wounded during a scuffle at a Midtown Manhattan McDonald’s early Monday, law enforcement sources said. The victim was sitting and eating inside the Eighth Avenue fast food eatery around 2 a.m. When…
A California special education teacher is on leave and under police investigation after posting videos of herself with firearms and calling for a “black militia.” Kenisha Daily, who worked at Lincoln Elementary School in the Madera Unified School District near…
Hayden Panettiere’s father has spoken out following the release of 911 dispatch audio from the day the actress died. Skip Panettiere, the father of Hayden Panettiere, 36, issued a statement through the actress’s publicist, Kasey Kitchen, after his daughter was…
Ryder Williams, 16, is scheduled to meet President Trump in the Oval Office on Monday. The rookie lifeguard from Santa Cruz, California, will sit down with the president at 1 p.m. ET, accompanied by his family and potentially the 10-year-old…
Trump threatened to bomb Oman during an interview on August 17. The president, 80, issued the warning to the longtime US ally during a morning appearance on the network, stating he would “bomb the [expletive] out of” the Gulf nation…
Police have ruled out foul play in the death of Hayden Panettiere after the actress was found unresponsive at a South Carolina apartment. The ‘Heroes’ star, 36, was discovered at around 1:50 p.m. Sunday in Greenville, South Carolina, according to…
Nick Reiner’s request to access his $1.5 million trust has been formally blocked by trustees citing California’s slayer statute. Nick, 32, the son of director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner, petitioned in June to tap the trust to…
Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly has spoken out about a fatal wrong-way motorway crash, linking the deadly trend to social media stunts. The five teenage males who died were all in one car travelling along the M9 in Co Kildare at…
President Donald Trump blamed vandals for dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial in a Truth Social post on Sunday. Trump, 78, shared a photo showing large patches of brown and dead grass across the…
A Louisiana man arrested in Memphis with his wife’s body in the passenger seat is due in court Monday as he awaits extradition. Tyronne Brazille, 50, was pulled over Thursday night in downtown Memphis for a traffic violation when officers…
Walter Lee Muhammad, 46, was arrested on new federal drug trafficking charges less than two years after former President Joe Biden commuted his decade-long sentence for fentanyl distribution. The Atlanta man appeared in federal court in the Northern District of…
Venice Beach property owners have begun paying a private security firm staffed by former gang members to clear homeless encampments from their streets. Rick Swinger, a Venice apartment owner, is among roughly 250 locals and businesses who now pay monthly…