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http://youtu.be/6jk00chJa30 A handicapped Denver councilman says he was left humiliated after being forced to crawl onto a stage to take part in an election debate because the venue hosting the event did not have a ramp. Councilman Chris Hinds, who represents Denver’s 10th District, has been using a wheelchair since 2008, when he was involved in a crash that paralyzed him from the chest down. He was elected to public office in 2019 and is seeking re-election to a second term. On Monday night, Hinds arrived at Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater in Denver to face off against his three challengers in a debate, only to discover that the stage was not wheelchair-accessible. In an interview with local news outlet Denverite, Hinds said a staffer at the venue told him they were not aware that...

http://youtu.be/s632y3ffIkw “CNN This Morning” co-host Don Lemon caused some on-air tension and triggered an uproar on social media Thursday after claiming GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley was not “in her prime” — and should not comment on the age of other politicians. Lemon, 56, was responding to Haley, 51, calling for mental competency tests for politicians over the age of 75 in her presidential campaign kickoff speech Wednesday. “This whole talk about age makes me uncomfortable,” Lemon began. “I think it’s the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not in their prime. Nikki Haley isn’t in her prime.” To the bewilderment of co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, Lemon then said: “A woman is considered to be in their prime in [their] 20s a...

http://youtu.be/960INh7qBCc President Biden told Americans on Thursday there was no evidence that a trio of unidentified flying objects shot down following the downing of a Chinese spy balloon were nefarious — in his first comments on the unprecedented military action in North American airspace after five full days of silence. “We don’t yet know exactly what these three objects were,” Biden said of the devices shot down off the Alaskan coast, over Canada’s Yukon Territory and over Lake Huron. “But nothing, nothing right now suggests they were related to China’s spy balloon program, or that they were surveillance vehicles from any other country. The intelligence community’s current assessment is that these three objects are most likely balloons tied to private companies, recreational or ...

http://youtu.be/bfqUpEEyjMI Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is back in a DC-area hospital, this time to get treatment for clinical depression, his office announced Thursday. ” While John has experienced depression off and on throughout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks,” Fetterman chief of staff Adam Jentleson wrote on Twitter, adding that Capitol attending physician Brian Monahan examined Fetterman on Monday and “recommended inpatient care” on Wednesday. “After examining John, the doctors at Walter Reed [National Military Medical Center] told us that John is getting the care he needs, and will soon be back to himself,” Jentleson concluded. Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, posted a separate tweet stating: “After what he’s been through in the past year, there’s probably no one who ...

http://youtu.be/_9e--c5NyjU Don Lemon was conspicuously absent from “CNN This Morning” on Friday just 24 hours after he put his foot in his mouth with a sexist comment about 51-year-old Nikki Haley being “not in her prime” — prompting his co-host, Poppy Harlow, to walk off the set. Friday morning’s awkward broadcast started with a short clip featuring Harlow, who is on location in Salt Lake City where she is covering NBA All-Star weekend festivities, interviewing TNT’s star basketball commentators Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal, and Kenny Smith. The camera then panned to co-host Kaitlan Collins, who was seated next to Audie Cornish, the former National Public Radio journalist who was sitting in for the 56-year-old Lemon. “Don has the day off,” Collins said at the top of the broadcas...

http://youtu.be/E2470r_629Y President Biden stormed out of a press availability Thursday afternoon when asked if his ability to deal with China was “compromised” by his family’s business interests — complaining journalists were not being “polite” and telling them to “give me a break” before walking away. Republicans say Biden can’t properly confront China on issues ranging from fentanyl and COVID-19 origins to a surveillance balloon that traversed US airspace this month because of his family’s financial links to Chinese state entities. “Is your ability to deal with China compromised by your family’s business relationships in China, President Biden?” a reporter for The Post asked following a seven-minute address on the Chinese balloon and the subsequent shoot-down of three yet-to-be-iden...

http://youtu.be/B8GE9_A3_6s The Minnesota mother convicted of killing her 6-year-old son was sentenced to life in prison, but not before she shared her feelings with the court. “I’m innocent. F—k you all. You’re garbage. That is all your honor,” Julissa Thaler said during her sentencing hearing on Thursday. Thaler was arrested and charged with first and second-degree murder of her son Eli Hart in May 2022. Prosecutors said Thaler, who had been granted full custody of the child, shot Eli nine times with a shotgun, according to Law and Crime Network. “Ms. Thaler, I don’t know if that’s appropriate here,” Hennepin County District Court Judge, Jay Quam said of the outburst. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/02/17/minnesota-mom-julissa-thaler-calls-judge-garbage-during-sentencing/ #mi...

http://youtu.be/c576K0dqVFQ One of China’s most high-profile bankers, billionaire investor Bao Fan, has gone missing — marking the latest disappearance of a top executive in the tightly-controlled country. China Renaissance Holdings said in a market update Thursday that it has been “unable to contact” its chairman and CEO in recent days. His disappearance is the latest in a series of cases of prominent Chinese executives going missing with little explanation amid President Xi Jinping’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign. Shares of the Beijing-based China Renaissance Holdings plunged by as much as 50% in early trading Friday on the news of Bao’s mysterious disappearance, wiping off $357 million in market value. They were down about 28% in the afternoon. Read more at https://nypost.com/2...

http://youtu.be/mRyyLt0obX4 Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols. Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond Mills Jr., Emmitt Martin III, and Justin Smith made their first court appearances with their lawyers before a judge in Shelby County Criminal Court. The officers were fired after an internal police investigation into the Jan. 7 arrest of Nichols, who died in a hospital three days later. The officers pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, official misconduct, and official oppression. They are all out on bond. Their next hearing has been scheduled for May 1. Addressing the courtroom, Judge James Jones Jr. asked ...

http://youtu.be/5Z36Aig-hHQ Disturbing video shows what appears to be a contaminated creek in East Palestine, Ohio, after the recent derailment of a train there carrying toxic materials. “Even MORE proof that the EPA is LYING to the people of East Palestine,” journalist Nick Sortor wrote on Twitter alongside footage he posted of a woman tossing a small log into the water, causing an oily sheen to rise to the surface. The widely shared clip — which has garnered about 9.4 million views as of Friday morning — comes as EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited the area Thursday to reassure residents that the water is safe for drinking and that the air is suitable to breathe. “I’m asking they trust the government,” Regan said of local residents. “I know that’s hard. We know there’s a lack of...

http://youtu.be/Pb3RWg0-YPM Ann Coulter went on a racist tirade earlier this week in which she suggested that Nikki Haley “go back to [her] own country” where people are “starving” while “worshipping cows and rats.” Coulter also referred to Haley as a “bimbo” and a “preposterous creature.” Haley, the Indian American former governor of South Carolina who declared her candidacy for the GOP nomination for president earlier this week, has not commented on Coulter’s remarks, which she made on “The Mark Simone Show.” Coulter told Simone she was particularly angered by then-Gov. Haley’s decision to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of South Carolina’s Statehouse following the 2015 mass shooting at a predominantly black church in Charleston. “This is my country, lady,” Coulter said...

http://youtu.be/V5VxjViAVjk Stella Stevens, the actress best known for her roles in “The Nutty Professor,” the disaster flick “The Poseidon Adventure” and “Girls! Girls! Girls!” opposite Elvis Presley, has died. She was 84. Her only child, actor and producer Andrew Stevens, 67, confirmed to The Post that Stevens died Friday in Los Angeles after a battle with end-stage Alzheimer’s disease. He added that she had been in hospice for “quite some time.” Born in Mississippi in 1938, Stevens moved to Tennessee and became interested in acting and modeling while studying at Memphis State College. After taking part in a collegiate play, Stevens made her film debut in “Say One for Me” in 1959, which won her the 1960 Golden Globe for new star of the year – actress. Read more at https://nypost.co...

http://youtu.be/-ibMlwsSYlo The US Air Force general overseeing North American airspace said Sunday he was not ruling out aliens after a string of shoot-downs of unidentified objects. Asked whether he had ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for three floating objects shot down by warplanes in as many days, Gen. Glen VanHerck said: “I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.” “I haven’t ruled out anything,” added VanHerck, head of US North American Aerospace Defense Command and Northern Command. “At this point we continue to assess every threat or potential threat, unknown, that approaches North America with an attempt to identify it.” VanHerck’s comments came during a Pentagon briefing after an F-16 fighter jet shot down an octagonal-shaped ob...

http://youtu.be/qMXeIy8X8Kk Here are The Post’s biggest video headlines for Monday, February 13, 2023: Dejected Eagles fans take to the streets post-Super Bowl, Bryan Kohberger was fired because of his behavior towards women, and aliens haven’t been ruled out by US Air Force general #eagles #superbowl #bryankohberger #ufo #aliens #lakehuron The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/nypost Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NYPost

http://youtu.be/wiG77FP2duo Spotify is denying a report that Joe Rogan could bolt the streaming giant this year after his contract expires. Rogan’s future has become a topic of intense speculation particularly in light of the fact that his relationship with Spotify management has “frayed,” according to the news site Semafor. The news site claimed over the weekend that Rogan could bolt Spotify and take his estimated 11 million listeners with him as the star podcaster’s contract with the Sweden-based audio platform was due to run out later this year. When reached by The Post, a spokesperson for Spotify disputed Semafor’s reporting, insisting that Rogan’s contract does not expire this year. A Semafor spokesperson told The Post that the news site updated its original story with a link to ...

http://youtu.be/6kmSFAMjh6I The State Department has told any US citizens still in Russia to leave immediately due to the ongoing war in Ukraine and the risk of harassment and incarceration at the hands of Kremlin security officials. ​”US​ ​citizens residing or travelling in Russia should depart immediately. Exercise increased caution due to the risk of wrongful detentions​,” reads the department’s latest travel advisory issued Monday. The department also urged US citizens not to travel to Russia “due to the unpredictable consequences of the unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces, the potential for harassment and the singling out of US citizens for detention by Russian government security officials, the arbitrary enforcement of local law, limited flights ...

http://youtu.be/jJGZLEWkWDU At least four people were struck by the driver of a U-Haul truck who wildly drove onto sidewalks and led cops on a high-speed chase before being arrested in Brooklyn on Monday, police said. The man driving the truck first hit at least one person riding a moped near 5th Avenue and Bay Ridge Parkway in Bay Ridge around 11 a.m. before speeding off as cops followed, according to police. A shocking video surveillance video obtained by The Post shows the truck smash into the back of a moped — spinning the bike around and sending the driver to the ground — before jumping a curb and plowing through bikes left on the corner of 72nd Street and 3rd Avenue. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/multiple-people-struck-by-u-haul-truck-in-brooklyn/ #brooklyn #caught...

http://youtu.be/C3NGngmYuDQ A professor at Yale University has sparked outrage for suggesting that elderly Japanese residents should take part in a “mass suicide” by disembowelment to help the country deal with its rapidly aging population. Yusuke Narita, 37, an assistant professor of economics at the Ivy League school, has gained hundreds of thousands of followers on social media as he touted the controversial solution in multiple interviews and publications — but he’s also drawn ire, the New York Times reported. “I feel like the only solution is pretty clear,” Narita said during a news program in late 2021. “In the end, isn’t it mass suicide and mass ‘seppuku’ of the elderly?” he added, referring to the practice of disembowelment utilized by dishonored Samurai in the late 19th centur...

http://youtu.be/xPQOf8Fpe3I White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday the US has “no indication of aliens” after downing three unidentified flying objects — a day after a top general said he couldn’t rule it out. The trio of shootdowns — off Alaska’s Arctic coastline Friday, over Canada’s Yukon Territory Saturday and over Lake Huron on Sunday — follow the downing of a high-altitude Chinese spy balloon Feb. 4 off South Carolina’s coast. “I just want to make sure we address this from the White House,” Jean-Pierre said at the start of her regular press briefing. “I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no — again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns.” Authorities have not yet recovered any wreckag...

http://youtu.be/5LoCk1gyx60 Pancreatic cancer is rising in the US, but rates are rising faster in young women — particularly black women. A report published in the peer-reviewed journal Gastroenterology found that rates of pancreatic cancer in women age 55 and younger have risen by 2.4% in comparison to men the same age, with scientists calling for more research into the alarming trend. “There’s a need to understand these trends, and to make changes today so this doesn’t affect women disproportionately in the future,” senior author of the study Dr. Srinivas Gaddam said in the press release. The figures were even more concerning for black women, with the rates 2.23% higher than in young black men. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/02/13/pancreatic-cancer-rates-rising-rapidly-among-y...

http://youtu.be/YbN0zi0HNrM The mass shooter who killed three students and left five others in critical condition at Michigan State University was identified Tuesday as a 43-year-old local man who was previously busted with a loaded gun. Anthony Dwayne McRae was IDed after he was found dead of a suspected self-inflicted gunshot wound at 11:35 p.m., just over three hours after he first opened fire at the East Lansing campus. Cops again confirmed that he had no apparent connection to the university or a clear motive for the “heinous” attack. The killer was found with a weapon, police said, without detailing what it was. McRae was finally tracked down after a local resident called a tip line during the more than three hours he was hunted after shooting up two locations at the school, off...

http://youtu.be/R6KW5ZiwIXk Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg copped bipartisan heat Monday when he failed to address the catastrophic Ohio train derailment which released toxic chemicals into the air this month — but joked about Chinese spy balloons and moaned about a lack of diversity in the construction industry. “It couldn’t be a more exciting time for transportation,” Buttigieg, 41, said in a remarks at the National Association of Counties Legislative Conference in Washington, DC, where he discussed the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed by President Biden in 2021. “It’s had its challenges. I mean, if you look at what the American transportation systems have faced in the last two or three years partly because of the pandemic, we’ve faced issues from container shipping t...

http://youtu.be/I8EkNTQnDsw A former MSNBC host claims she was told she needed to have the network president vet her commentary if it included any criticism of Hillary Clinton before she ran for president in 2016. Krystal Ball, a former Democratic Party congressional candidate from Virginia, was a co-host of “The Cycle” from 2012 until 2015 for the left-leaning cable news channel owned by Comcast. Ball, 41, recalled her MSNBC monolgue in 2014 when she urged then-Sen. Clinton (D-NY) to not seek the Democratic Party nomination for president. “I did this whole thing that was like, ‘She sold out to Wall Street. People are gonna hate this lady. She’s like the terrible candidate for the moment. Please don’t run,'” Ball said during an appearance last week on Joe Rogan’s Spotify podcast “The J...

http://youtu.be/1CeZNBYk_O0 Here are The Post’s biggest video headlines for Tuesday, February 14, 2023: Michigan State University shooter identified, Nikki Haley announces run for POTUS, and family describes flight that nearly plunged into ocean #michigan #andrewmcrae #nikkihaley #unitedairlines The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscribe to New York Post Sports: https://www.youtube.com/c/nypostsports Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/nypost Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/NYPost