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http://youtu.be/MPW9iYZnuEI Texas residents fled their homes overnight after a wildfire in Walker County quickly grew to engulf thousands of acres. The blaze, dubbed the Game Preserve Fire, ignited Friday afternoon near Huntsville, an hour north of Houston, and spread to 3,000 acres from 100 in less than a day, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. As of Saturday morning, only 10% of the fire had been contained, officials said. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/02/texans-evacuate-homes-as-game-preserve-fire-rapidly-spreads/ #texas #wildfires #walkercounty #gamepreservefire 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: htt...

http://youtu.be/XzYv5D3QrGM A lawyer for Brian Laundrie and his parents in Gabby Petito’s murder case reportedly made a settlement offer to the slain woman’s mom and dad ahead of a civil trial scheduled for next year. Court papers obtained by WFLA show attorney Steven Bertolino recently filed the proposal to Joe Petito and Nichole Schmidt, Gabby’s parents. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, and a lawyer representing Joe Petito and Schmidt declined to comment to the outlet. Gabby’s grieving parents are suing Brian Laundrie’s parents — Chris and Robert Laundrie — in civil court in Florida, alleging they were aware of Gabby’s killing but chose to remain silent about the case. The suit argues their inaction resulted in their severe emotional distress and that they deserve compensat...

http://youtu.be/MDwLhLsybzg A heroic Michigan cop saved a baby who stopped breathing after he pulled over the toddler’s uncle for speeding in a Chevrolet Camaro Tuesday evening. Dashcam footage captured the dramatic rescue by Warren police officer Brendan Fraser, who jumped into action during the traffic stop when he heard frantic pleas from the 18-month-old’s mother. “Help, help, we got a baby here dying,” the driver shouted through tears as the cop ran up to the car, according to the dashcam footage posted by local stations. “I thought he was racing somebody, or maybe he was trying to get away from something,” Fraser said of the driver, according to CBS Detroit. “And then, really, now it made sense when he handed his baby over. He’s headed to the hospital that’s about three-quarte...

http://youtu.be/toElLPd650A Dr. Anthony Fauci flip-flopped once again on masking as a means to tamp down COVID-19 as he admitted that a wide-ranging study found that face masks made no difference in the course of the pandemic. “I am concerned that people will not abide by recommendations,” Fauci told CNN’s Michael Smerconish Saturday in a segment flagging a rise in COVID cases nationwide. Federal agencies and state and local governments decreed onerous mask mandates for airplanes, schools, public transit, restaurants, workplaces and more starting in 2020 — thanks largely to Fauci, the public face of the nation’s official COVID response. As the White House’s chief medical adviser, Fauci gave conflicting advice on the efficacy of masking, first saying it was unnecessary for the general p...

http://youtu.be/shGYU4nrQzI President Biden boasted during a Labor Day speech in Philadelphia on Monday that he cut the federal budget deficit — despite the fact that it’s soaring this year. “Unlike the last president, in my first two years — all this stuff, guess what? — I cut the deficit $1.7 trillion, cut the debt $1.7 trillion,” the 80-year-old president said, conflating the basic budget terms after he touted new infrastructure spending. The claim, which Biden has made in the past, routinely attracts unflattering fact checks because government spending remains at near-record highs — while much of the previous reduction came from the expiration of COVID-19 emergency spending, rather than the president’s own actions. In reality, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Bud...

http://youtu.be/SXfmc_OmeCE The FBI has joined an investigation into possible links between suspected serial killer Rex Heuermann and a missing South Carolina mom — but a local sheriff cautions that so far there is “zero” direct evidence. Sumter County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to NBC News Monday that the feds have been asked to help investigate Julia Ann Bean’s 2017 disappearance after her daughter recently came forward to say she was last seen with a man resembling the 59-year-old Gilgo Beach suspect. The daughter, Cameron Bean, also said the mystery man was driving a dark truck, seemingly similar to the vehicle hauled from Heuermann’s own home in the Palmetto State after his arrest for the Long Island murders. “Miss Bean may have a connection with the serial killer in New York, Rex...

http://youtu.be/sEJm2otbwVk A Massachusetts 14-year-old died Friday hours after he participated in the so-called “One Chip Challenge” — a viral social media trend that the teen’s family believes contributed to his sudden death, according to reports. Harris Wolobah, a sophomore at Doherty Memorial High School in Worcester, consumed an exceedingly spicy Paqui chip at school and quickly developed a stomachache, his mother, Lois, told NBC 10 Boston. Harris was picked up by family and brought home and started to feel better, but was later found passed out when he had intended to leave for basketball tryouts, his mom reportedly said. The young teen was rushed to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. A cause of death has not been confirmed, with autopsy results pending. Read more at http...

http://youtu.be/e7niO2lhfBg A group of commuters aboard a rail line in Madrid saw their train car suddenly flood with water as a record torrential rain swept across Spain from Sunday to Monday. Shocking footage from inside a metro line shows riders backing away from the door connecting the train cars as floodwaters seeped through the cracks. The worried passengers could be seen filming the flood, with the downpour visible through the train windows, making it seem like the train was stuck in a waterfall. City officials said the flash flooding began on Sunday, with Mayor Jose Luis Martinez-Almeida warning residents to bunker down as 120 liters per square meter of rain was expected to fall in the span of just 12 hours. “Due to the exceptional and abnormal situation, in which rainfall rec...

http://youtu.be/VTNzJI5yyt4 Dozens of University of Wisconsin-Madison students plunged into a lake near campus when a pier collapsed beneath them, according to officials and dramatic footage. The Memorial Union Terrace pier at Lake Mendota folded into the lake, sending an estimated 60 to 80 students into the water on Labor Day Monday afternoon, UW-Madison police said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Video of the moment shows the pier collapse in one spot before other parts also fall like a line of dominoes. “I turned to this one girl, and we were like, ‘Oh my God. Did that really just happen?’” student Gabrielle Willbrandt told WMTV. The freshman was one of the many standing on the pier when it went down. At least 25 people suffered minor injuries, though only one person ...

http://youtu.be/I4iRr7UQPT0 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is expected to head to Russia and meet with President Vladimir Putin to discuss, in part, selling weapons to aid the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine, according to top US officials. The exact timeframe for the planned sit-down was not disclosed Monday by National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson, but Kim would likely travel to Russia via armored train. “We have information that Kim Jong Un expects these discussions to continue, to include leader-level diplomatic engagement in Russia,” Watson said in a statement. “We urge the DPRK to cease its arms negotiations with Russia and abide by the public commitments that Pyongyang has made to not provide or sell arms to Russia.” Privately, officials believe the meeting could happ...

http://youtu.be/Cdwkb_iAjjs A woman complaining of chronic pain discovered that she had a surgical tool the size of a dinner plate inside her abdomen more than a year after delivering her baby via cesarean section, health officials said. An extra large Alexis retractor, or AWR — a device used to draw back the edges of a wound during surgery that can measure 6 inches in diameter — was left inside the mother’s body after the birth of her baby at Auckland City Hospital in 2020, according to a report by New Zealand’s Health and Disability commissioner. “It should be noted that the retractor, a round, soft tubal instrument of transparent plastic fixed on two rings, is a large item, about the size of a dinner plate,” the newly-released report read. “Usually, it would be removed after closing ...

http://youtu.be/JS2uT6Cxvm0 Following quickly on the success of India's moon landing, the country's space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first such solar mission. Lauren Anthony reports. After its recent successful moon landing, India's space agency has launched a rocket to study the sun. It's the country's first such mission, which aims to study solar winds that can cause disturbance on earth -commonly seen as auroras. Scientists clapped during the the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO)'s live broadcast, as a rocket left a trail of smoke and fire in its wake on Saturday (September 2). India's space agency later said on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that the satellite was now in orbit. Named after the Hindi word for the...

http://youtu.be/d3wWQWmQbJw Sen. Mitch McConnell is “perfectly capable” of leading his GOP caucus — even after the 81-year-old froze in public last week for the second time in as many months, says Republican Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota. “Mitch is sharp, and he is shrewd. He understands what needs to be done,” Rounds told CNN on Sunday of the Senate minority leader from Kentucky. “I will leave it up to him as to how he wants to discuss that with the American public. But there’s no doubt in my mind that he is perfectly capable of continuing on at this stage of the game.” Concerns have mounted about the health of the longest-serving Senate Republican leader in history after he froze up and was unresponsive for minutes on end during press conferences in July and August. The most recen...

http://youtu.be/5pq66_BZmQU A Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona was forced to turn around and make an emergency landing after a passenger “had diarrhea all the way through the plane.” The Airbus A350 aircraft was two hours into a trans-Atlantic flight from Georgia to Spain on Friday when the pilot asked to come back because of the fecal fiasco. “This is a biohazard issue,” the pilot said to air traffic control, recorded from LiveATC.com and shared on X. “We’ve had a passenger who’s had diarrhea all the way through the airplane, so they want us to come back to Atlanta.” Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/04/delta-flight-forced-into-emergency-landing-by-passengers-diarrhea/ #deltaairlines #travel #lifestyle #airplanes The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news...

http://youtu.be/3ZrRCofpKf4 Beloved NY1 journalist Ruschell Boone — who bravely came back to the anchor chair this year after a brutal battle with pancreatic cancer — died Sunday evening. She was 48. NY1, where Boone worked as a reporter and news anchor for over two decades, confirmed her death in an internal email shared with The Post. “She was a dedicated and principled journalist to the very end,” the memo said. “In her last week with us, she was still working on ideas for her show and sharing thoughts for making NY1 a continued beacon of truth for New Yorkers.” She is survived by her two sons, Jackson, 12, and Carter, 9, and her husband, Todd. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/05/beloved-ny1-anchor-ruschell-boone-dead-at-48/ #ruschelleboone #media #cancer The New York Pos...

http://youtu.be/Ik5ob1CdZ9Y Mike Pence says he never used email while vice president — much less accounts registered to pseudonyms as President Biden did — because of the security risk. “The internet is never completely safe. I literally never used email when I was vice president,” Pence told John Catsimatidis in an interview Monday night on WABC 770 AM’s “Cats & Cosby Show.” “So this idea of multiple emails with pseudonyms for Joe Biden over the years, I was just taken aback,” said Pence, referring to the president’s use of several email accounts during his eight-year vice presidency under Barack Obama. “It is … one more example of everything that’s swirling around this administration,” said the former No. 2 under ex-President Donald Trump, referring to Biden. “They are under an e...

http://youtu.be/SF9l6KNzSj0 An elderly Vietnam veteran from Adelaide, Australia was downgraded from his paid Qantas business class seat on Sunday so a young pilot could travel in luxury to the South Australian capital. Stephen Jones, 78, and his wife were in the Qantas lounge enjoying a coffee on their way home from a holiday in Christchurch on Sunday when they got the news – just 30 minutes before the final Melbourne to Adelaide leg took off. The reason was that a pilot needed to get to Adelaide for a flight and could only do business class as per an enterprise agreement. Speaking to Melbourne’s “3AW,” Mr Jones said he was offered 5000 Frequent Flyer points and an apology after a letter of complaint. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/05/vietnam-veteran-fuming-after-airline-boot...

http://youtu.be/qOZFtaIRED4 President Biden griped that his onetime boss Barack Obama couldn’t even say “F–k you!” properly because he was so buttoned-up, according to “The Last Politician’’ by well-connected author Franklin Foer. While President Obama and his then-vice president were in sync on a lot of things, there was an underlying “tinge of class rivalry to their gibes,” according to the new biography. Foer described the pair as “the lunch-pail cornball” (Biden) “and the effete professor culturally” (Obama) “chafing each other. “Biden told a friend that Obama didn’t know how to say f–k you properly, with the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of his consonants,” Foer writes. “It was how they must curse in the ivory tower.” Biden, 80, was concerned that Obama, 6...