Cruise ship worker accused of stabbing multiple people with scissors on board vessel bound for Alaska

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Early sales of the new phones were down 13% compared with last year's launch of iPhone 15. Analysts say it's because iPhone 16 lacks AI.

Ten people were killed in March 2021 at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colo. The gunman has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Hochul, who infuriated the lefty wing of her party by refusing to raise income taxes in this year’s state budget, says she wants to keep holding that line in 2025.

Kevin Mohatt/ReutersRobert F. Kennedy Jr is often described a black sheep amid the sprawling Kennedy family, but he has one thing in common with the men who made the Kennedy name: his reputation as a womanizer. That characterization rang true yet again Thursday when a report alleged that New York magazine’s star reporter, Olivia Nuzzi, engaged in a “personal relationship” with Kennedy after she penned a splashy profile of him in November, when his presidential run still had a glimmer of hope.Nuzzi, 31, has been emphatic that she and Kennedy, 70, never got physical with each other. She’s stopped short of detailing what their relationship entailed, but sources have told multiple outlets—including the New York Post—that it was “digital cheating.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

An illegal migrant punched and took a bite out of a US Border Patrol agent's face Thursday -- as the brave men and women on the frontlines of the Harris-Biden border crisis battle a "significant rise" in assaults.

Antes de llegar a Los Ángeles con Angel City, la costarricense Rocky Rodríguez lo había ganado todo en el fútbol profesional de Estados Unidos.

Harris has been using abortion rights as one of her key arguments for why voters should choose her over Trump in what is shaping up to be the closest election in decades..

In the stunning footage, cops are shown trailing Derrell Mickles, 37, after he hopped a turnstile at the L line station on Sutter Avenue — then shouting “drop the knife!” and “put the knife down!” on Sunday.

YouTube/Law&CrimeCarly Gregg, the Mississippi teen who shot her mother dead and wounded her stepfather, weeped as she was was found guilty Friday in the pair of ruthless shootings.The 15-year-old is set to spend the rest of her life in prison after being convicted on all charges, which included first-degree murder, attempted murder and tampering with evidence.The jury deliberated for two hours after watching home surveillance footage that shows Gregg, with a handgun tucked behind her back, darting into her mother Ashley Smylie’s room. Moments later, three shots could be heard ringing out followed by a scream.Read more at The Daily Beast.

NY Post readers discuss a new federal indictment filed against rapper Sean Combs for sexual abuse and trafficking.

Elijah Nouvelage'Kamala Harris fired up the Democratic base Friday as she blamed Donald Trump for women’s suffering under the “Trump abortion ban.”Speaking at a rally in Atlanta, Harris faulted Trump for the fall of Roe v. Wade and the abortion restrictions that states subsequently enacted. And she ridiculed her opponent’s debate performance, in which he touted his record on abortion.“In our debate last week—” Harris said before she was interrupted by laughter and applause. “Well, that was fun,” she said, before turning serious, saying, “But I know everyone here paid attention to the words, though, the words, right?”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Former GOP hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy took questions ahead of a town hall he hosted in Springfield, Ohio where residents have been outraged by the influx of migrants.

Smythe, now in her 40s, left a good job and her marriage for Martin Shkreli.

As Pat Sajak has left "Wheel of Fortune," Vanna White is reflecting on her position with the game show and feels that "they could do it without me." However, there is one reason why the acclaimed show still "needs" her.

Atlanta Falcons star safety Jessie Bates III said he might talk some trash about Taylor Swift to Travis Kelce during the Falcons' game against the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday.

The mother-daughter duo was spotted exactly one month after Banderas announced her engagement to her childhood sweetheart.

Former President Trump tells an Israeli American group that if he loses the election, 'the Jewish people would really have a lot to do with that.'

For her first album in four years, Katy Perry reteams with producer and songwriter Dr. Luke, with whom she made many of her biggest hits.

The CEO of Triton Submarines criticized OceanGate’s approach to safety in a hearing about the submersible disaster that killed five people last year.

In conversations caught on hidden camera, New York City’s former COVID czar said that he’d organized a pair of sex parties in the second half of 2020, as New Yorkers coped with peak pandemic social isolation. “The only way I could do this job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam every now and then,” Jay Varma told an undercover reporter with whom he thought he was on a date. In a video compiled from several recordings taken this summer, the onetime senior public-health adviser to city hall describes the two events that took place in August and November of 2020. He also talked about his work promoting vaccination in the city by making it “very uncomfortable” for those who wanted to avoid the shots.“I stand by my efforts to get New Yorkers vaccinated against COVID-19, and I reject dangerous extremist efforts to undermine the public’s confidence in the need for and effectiveness of vaccines,” Varma said in a statement to The Atlantic. He acknowledged having participated in “two private gatherings” during his time in government, and said he takes responsibility “for not using the best judgment at the time.” The statement also notes that the taped conversations were “secretly recorded, spliced, diced, and taken out of context.”It’s not clear whether Varma personally violated any COVID rules. The sex parties involved, by the account he gave to the podcaster Steven Crowder in a companion video, “like, 10 people.” At the time, New York’s guidelines—which Varma was promoting far and wide—limited gatherings to 10 people or less in an effort to curb the spread of the virus. Separate city guidance on “Safer Sex and COVID-19” discouraged—but did not forbid—group sex. (“Limit the size of your guest list. Keep it intimate,” the guidance said.) Varma explained that he’d sex-partied responsibly, noting, “Everybody got tests and things like that.” He also said that he’d attended a dance party with hundreds of others in June 2021, after he’d left government (but while he was still consulting for the city on COVID policies).Still, you might think that a public-health official would do better to skip out on all of these events while other city residents were encouraged to minimize their social interactions. Even if Varma did not personally buck official guidance, others in his family may have crossed the line. He says in the videos that his family traveled to Seattle for Christmas in 2020, and that he didn’t join because the mayor was concerned about the optics: Public-health officials were actively encouraging people to avoid traveling for the holidays to avoid a winter surge. The following January, the U.S. reported a then-record number of COVID deaths.In June 2021, around the time that he attended the dance party with hundreds of others, Varma wrote an article for The Atlantic about the tricky calculus behind vaccine mandates and related COVID policies. “Many academic public-health experts favor more stringent restrictions than public-sector practitioners, including me, believe are realistic,” he wrote. He argued instead for what he called “a more targeted approach—one that neither requires universal sacrifice nor relieves everyone of all inconvenience.”Perhaps it would have helped if he’d shared his own struggles with that tension at the time. Social-science research tells us that public-health messaging wins trust most effectively when it leads with empathy—when leaders show that they understand how people feel and what they want, rather than barraging them with rules and facts. Clearly Varma struggled in the way that many others did as he tried to navigate the crushing isolation of the pandemic. In preparation for the holidays, his family was faced with tough, familiar choices, which resulted in his being separated from his loved ones.The end result may seem hypocritical, but it’s also relatable. (Well, maybe not entirely relatable, but in principle.) “We know that transparency can increase public trust in public health and medical experts,” Matt Motta, who studies vaccine hesitancy at the Boston University School of Public Health, told me. What if Varma had been forthright with the public from the start, even on the subject of his sex parties? Perhaps he could have shown that he understood the need to get together with your friends as safely as you can, in whatever ways make you happy. Even now, his description of that moment strikes a chord. “It wasn’t so much sex,” he told the woman who was trying to embarrass him. “It was just like, I need to get this energy out of me.” So did the rest of us.

Maryland officials closed the island’s beaches last Sunday when about 50 used needles, feminine hygiene products and other debris rolled in with the tide.

Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris attended a town hall style forum hosted by Oprah Winfrey in Michigan Thursday night. Harris received questions on most of the 2024 campaign cycle’s top issues, including guns and immigration — but a segment on abortion proved to be an emotional centerpiece that has continued to generate conversation. That moment largely focused on a 28-year-old Black woman from Georgia named Amber Thurman, featured in a recent ProPublica report. Thurman died in August 2022 after doctors hesitated to treat her following a complication from a medication abortion. After that year’s Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the right to an abortion guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, Georgia implemented a strict abortion law that severely limited the abortion-related care available to anyone more than six weeks pregnant.  Thurman was at least nine weeks pregnant; state law allows Georgia doctors to perform the procedure she required — a dilation and curettage, or D&C — only when the mother’s life is in danger. Doing so before then could result in a doctor going to prison for up to 10 years. At the time, the hospital reportedly had no guidance or policy in place about how to navigate the law and ascertain whether a pregnant person’s life was in danger. However, the ProPublica report suggests Thurman’s doctors waited too long — 20 hours after she went to her local hospital — before beginning to operate on her. A state review found Thurman’s death was “preventable,” and that’s a theme her family stressed as they spoke with Harris and Winfrey. “They just let her die because of some stupid abortion ban,” Thurman’s older sister said. “They treated her like she was just another number.” Harris offered her condolences to Thurman’s family, and used the moment to argue that Thurman’s story underscores the need for a change for greater abortion rights — as well as the sort of abortion policy Democrats are running on. Democrats are running on expanding abortion rights In the wake of Dobbs, more than a dozen states have passed strict abortion bans; nearly a dozen others, including Georgia, have laws that severely limit who is able to access an abortion.  Georgia’s law, the LIFE Act, was initially passed in 2019 and upheld last year. It outlaws abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detectable, something that usually occurs around five or six weeks of gestation. It does allow abortions past that point for “medical emergencies,” but is vague about when doctors should declare an emergency, other than defining them as a “condition in which an abortion is necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant woman.” In many states, there have been efforts to overturn abortion laws — or keep them from being instituted. In Michigan, where the town hall was held, voters enshrined the right to abortion into the state’s constitution in 2023. In the wake of Dobbs, ballot initiatives to protect abortion access in Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Vermont, Montana, and California all passed. And this year, a new slate of states will decide whether to protect access. “There are 10 states with ballot initiatives for this November,” said David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University who focuses on gender and abortion access. “Five of those states would change the current law in that state … going from [ending] a complete abortion ban [in] South Dakota and Missouri, to alleviating a six-week ban in Florida, a 15-week ban in Arizona, and a 12-week ban in Nebraska.” Democrats have tied themselves to these initiatives, hoping that they boost turnout. The party successfully campaigned on abortion in the 2022 midterms, and made abortion a factor in several special elections that were Democratic wins. They hope to make the issue a central part of this year’s election too. According to the Pew Research Center, abortion is a top five issue for Democratic voters, and a top 10 issue for voters overall. Harris has repeatedly attacked former President Donald Trump as being responsible for the end of Roe, arguing as she did Thursday, “The former president chose three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would overturn the protections of Roe v. Wade — and they did as he intended.” Harris, meanwhile, has said that, as president, she would approve federal legislation protecting the right to abortion. The current model for that legislation is the 2023 Women’s Health Protection Act, which would prevent state governments from imposing restrictions on abortion rights pre-viability. (Of course, Harris would probably need a Democratic majority in both the House and Senate — which currently seems unlikely — for federal abortion protections to pass.)  For his part, Trump has bragged about being the president who overturned Roe, and has argued that abortion policy should be left to the states. He has said he would not approve a federal abortion ban if given another term. He has also sought to distance himself from Project 2025, the conservative vision for the US that includes draconian restrictions on women’s health care, rights, and freedom.  But that’s not to say that a second Trump term couldn’t make even abortion more difficult to access, including through the method he used the first time around: court appointments. 

U.S. stocks drifted around their all-time highs, as a record-setting week for Wall Street closed on a quieter note

JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon echoed Bowman’s fears, saying he wouldn’t “count my eggs” that the rate cuts will deliver the US economy a soft landing. 

Myles Garrett is expected to take the field on Sunday despite injuries to both of his feet ahead of the Browns’ Week 3 match-up against the Giants. 

“The antisemitism problem in this country is on the left. It is not on the right,” Scott Jennings said. 

Former mirrorball champion Cheryl Burke joins Page Six’s Desiree Murphy to recap all the highlights from the Season 33 premiere of “Dancing With the Stars.” Cheryl breaks down everything from Anna Delvey’s bedazzled ankle monitor to how she was almost being paired with Dwight Howard. For more with the dancing pro, tune into the new...

Ted Colbert, the president and CEO of Boeing Defense, Space & Security, will be leaving the beleaguered company, Boeing announced Friday.

"Stay back, they have a gun" is what a desperate Manhattan man told his family moments before his wife was shot point blank in the head by a teen mugger and his pal.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear confirmed that the body found during a search near a freeway this week was alleged Interstate 75 gunman Joseph Couch.

Communication breakdowns with local law enforcement hampered the Secret Service ahead of a July assassination attempt on former President Trump.

The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.

The "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star seemed happy sitting next to her co-star Jeff Garlin at an Emmys afterparty.

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A Cal Fire employee was arrested Friday on suspicion of starting several blazes in Sonoma County.

The individual, whom authorities did not identify, was transported to George Washington Hospital for a medical evaluation.

San Francisco on Tuesday asked a federal judge for a preliminary injunction to bar Oakland's airport from using the name San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport.

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Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers looks on after hitting a two-run home run against the Miami Marlins during the third inning at loanDepot park on September 17, 2024, in Miami, Florida. | Sam Navarro/Getty Images During a Thursday Los Angeles Dodgers game versus the Miami Marlins, baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani hit a record that no other player has reached.  In that game, Ohtani became the first baseball player to reach the elusive “50/50” milestone, which translates to hitting 50 home runs and stealing 50 bases in one season. This new stat surpasses records set by then-Seattle Mariner Alex Rodriguez in 1998, when he achieved a “42/42,” and Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr., who hit 41 home runs and stole 73 bases in 2023. It’s particularly impressive because most players are either muscular power hitters or speedy base stealers, not both. HISTORY!SHOHEI OHTANI IS THE ONLY MEMBER OF THE 50/50 CLUB. pic.twitter.com/F1T5D4n6QD— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 19, 2024 This latest record also only adds to Ohtani’s dominance in Major League Baseball. First signed to the Los Angeles Angels in 2017, Ohtani has long been considered uniquely talented because of how good he is at both hitting and pitching, a rare combination. Given his strengths as a “two-way player” – of a caliber not seen since the likes of Babe Ruth – he secured one of the most lucrative contracts in the sport when the Dodgers offered him a 10-year $700 million deal in 2023. Since joining the MLB, Ohtani has become the first player in recent memory to be in the top 15 for both home runs scored and strikeouts pitched in a single season.  In addition to being the only member of the 50/50 club, Ohtani turned in a historically strong game on Thursday. In six at-bats, Ohtani hit three home runs, two doubles, and a single, scoring every time. His hits also led to 10 runs batted in (RBIs), setting a new Dodgers record. And on top of that, he stole two bases. (That means he didn’t just hit the 50/50 mark, he actually now has a record 51 home runs and stolen bases.)  Notably, Ohtani is also still recovering from an elbow surgery that’s left him unable to pitch this season.  All that has made Thursday’s game a neat encapsulation of what has made Ohtani a star. He’s demonstrated uncommon versatility in the game as a commanding pitcher and hitter, and now a record-breaking base-stealer, too. Players recovering from surgery often have slow seasons, but that just has not been the case for Ohtani. And as the Washington Post notes, it can take other players several games to do what Ohtani did Thursday in one. That Ohtani was able to achieve so much in Thursday’s game speaks to why he’s one of the most-hyped athletes in Major League Baseball, and already considered by many fans to be one of the greatest players of all time.  What the record means The record is a testament to Ohtani’s unique power as a hitter, as well as his speed.  Ohtani had one of his strongest offensive games of the season on Thursday, ultimately helping the Dodgers land a spot in this year’s playoffs with the runs he scored. He’s also refined his ability to steal bases, improving his “running mechanics” and broader offensive techniques, according to the Wall Street Journal. As ESPN notes, players in Ohtani’s current position — designated hitter, an athlete who stands in to bat for the pitcher — tend to be slow. Before this year, Ohtani hadn’t stolen more than 26 bases in a single season. Following an injury in 2023, Ohtani was forced to take a break from pitching and instead used that time and energy to improve his base stealing. His latest success also comes after a dramatic sports gambling scandal earlier this year involving his former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara, who allegedly stole money from Ohtani to cover debts and pleaded guilty to bank fraud. After an investigation by the League, Ohtani was ultimately exonerated of wrongdoing.  Ohtani’s record-shattering game this week firmly established his ascendancy in the sport and was broadly cheered by other baseball greats including the Oakland Athletics’ Jose Canseco, who in 1988 was the first player to hit “40/40,” and fellow players like Tampa Bay Rays’ Taylor Walls, who said that his team was watching Ohtani’s game while playing its own.  “This guy is unreal,” basketball legend Lebron James posted on X. Ohtani’s colleague on the Dodgers, second baseman Gavin Lux, best summed up Thursday’s game and Ohtani’s style of play. “That has to be the greatest baseball game of all time. It has to be,” Lux said after the game. “There’s no way. It’s ridiculous. I’ve never seen anybody do that even in Little League, so it’s crazy that he’s doing that at the highest level.”

In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes and beers to the delight of legions of devoted fans

The remarkable utterance underscored Democrats’ increasing comfort with the country’s gun culture, and how Harris is trying to use it to puncture notions about female candidates.

Bill Simmons poked fun at ESPN’s Adam Schefter for his emotional send-off for Adrian Wojnarowski this week. 

The floor-through unit at 188 E. 76th St. is the longtime home of the artist Apryl Miller.

The Los Angeles Times award-winning staff takes readers behind the scenes during baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani's journey from Japan to the Dodgers.

It might be too late now for Dan Mullen’s suggestion to work, but the ex-Florida coach presented an idea to the Gators after getting fired in 2021.

Donald Trump has been held liable for rape. He has been accused, by more than 20 women, of sexual misconduct. He has denied each charge. He has also bragged about assaulting women and getting away with it.One might assume, then, that he would prefer to avoid sexual violence as a campaign issue. But Trump has rarely let facts get in his way—and as the 2024 presidential election draws near, he has been searching, ever more desperately, to expand his inventory of attack lines against Kamala Harris. And so, earlier today, the former president shared a meme on Truth Social: an image, based on a years-old and heavily doctored photo, purporting to show Harris posing next to Sean “Diddy” Combs. “MADAM VICE PRESIDENT,” the meme asks, “HAVE YOU EVER BEEN INVOLVED WITH OR ENGAGED IN ONE OF PUFF DADDIES FREAK OFFS?”The image lies in the way that doctored images typically do: by blending truth and fakery. (The original photo that the meme falsified, taken in 2001, depicts Harris with the talk-show host Montel Williams and his daughter Ashley. The version that Trump shared features Combs’s face grafted onto Williams’s body.) But the meme’s text is wrong too—in a way that reveals nothing about Harris’s behavior but everything about Trump’s.[Read: ‘I moved on her very heavily']“PUFF DADDIES FREAK OFFS” is a reference to a federal indictment unsealed this week accusing Combs of crimes that include sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and, as the Associated Press put it, “shocking acts of violence.” (Combs, having denied many earlier allegations of abuse, pleaded not guilty after being detained earlier this week.) The “freak offs,” as the indictment calls them, were a series of coerced sex acts that Combs allegedly organized, watched, and recorded. They involved “highly orchestrated performances of sexual activity”—with women in Combs’s network and with male sex workers. They also allegedly involved manipulation and bodily harm.The performances “sometimes lasted multiple days,” the indictment claims. “Combs and the victims,” the filing notes, “typically received IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug use.” And as the events continued, the filing further alleges, Combs choked, shoved, hit, kicked, and threw objects at people. He allegedly dragged people by their hair. The physical injuries took days and sometimes weeks to heal, according to the indictment; the broader effects lasted much longer.This is what “freak offs” were. This is what Trump was amplifying when he “retruthed” the post asking Harris, in cheeky all caps, whether she had participated in them. Combs pressured people into participating in these events, the filing claims, “by obtaining and distributing narcotics to them, controlling their careers, leveraging his financial support and threatening to cut off the same, and using intimidation and violence.” He taped the sessions, the indictment alleges, using the recordings as “collateral” to ensure participants’ cooperation and silence. Combs also turned participants’ career aspirations against them, the filing claims, promising them opportunities in exchange for their participation; it also asserts that he tried to control their appearance and monitor their health records.These are criminal allegations of the direst sort: claims of abuse both physical and emotional. They are not funny. They are not fodder for glib social-media posts. Although the allegations against Combs involve sex, they are not, strictly, about sex; they are about abuse. Assault is not sex. Rape is not sex. The meme that Trump shared ignores those distinctions. In sharing it, he revealed not only his shamelessness but also his ignorance. Women have long alleged that Trump doesn’t know the difference between sex and violence. Today, he proved them right.

Al ver “La Haine” (“El odio”) hace casi 30 años, había una sensación de algo inexorable en la violencia en los suburbios franceses.