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http://youtu.be/kYn4Xwng744 More than 11,000 Venezuelan troops raided and regained control of a notorious prison from a powerful gang that had set up its own zoo, pool and casino for the inmates to enjoy. Tocorón prison had served as the headquarters of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang for years. Inside, Inmates and some of their relatives or partners who moved into the penitentiary were able to roam freely throughout the detention facility and enjoy its resort-like amenities, according to the Agence France-Presse. Venezuela’s interior minister Remigio Ceballos said that the jail would be completely cleared and inmates would be moved to another facility, according to the Agence France-Presse. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro congratulated law enforcement for the raid. “I congratulat...

http://youtu.be/jSTempAwe8w A Louisiana fugitive who spent half his life on the run was captured in Mexico on Tuesday — and laughed as he was cuffed more than three decades after he was convicted for trying to murder a lifelong friend. Greg Lawson, 63, was dragged back onto US soil after a tipster reported seeing him in Huatulco, a resort region in the southwestern portion of the country, the FBI announced. Video showed the attempted murderer — dressed in a khaki shirt and flowy green pants — laughing before being placed in handcuffs for the first time in 32 years. He has been on the agency’s wanted list since May 1991, when he vanished from the rural community of Ringgold, home to a diminishing population of 1,370. Lawson had been found guilty of attempted second-degree murder for tr...

http://youtu.be/UsLsdcQTD_g President Biden on Thursday expressed his admiration for the “Congressional Black Caucus” during a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in his latest head-scratching moment. The gaffe came as he delivered a speech in Washington at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 46th Annual Gala. Biden, 80, celebrated gala award recipient Sister Norma Pimental, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, right before the blunder. “I know Sister Norma lives the lessons nuns taught me growing up. Lessons based on the Gospel of Matthew: Feed the hungry, care for the sick, welcome strangers,” the president said. “They echo what my dad taught me, and I mean this sincerely, my dad used to say, ‘Everyone, everyone is entitled to be trea...

http://youtu.be/YlD0iNU-8x0 Wild 911 calls from when an F-35 military plane went missing showed a befuddled neighbor reported having “a pilot in the house” — and the pilot admitting he had no idea where the $90 million stealth jet now was. The 4-minute clip caught a 911 dispatcher struggling to make sense of what the ejected pilot and the man whose South Carolina house he landed in were trying to explain. “We got a pilot in the house, and I guess he landed in my backyard, and we’re trying to see if we could get an ambulance to the house, please,” the homeowner said. The pilot, who gave his age as 47, told the dispatcher that he was feeling “OK” after descending with a parachute an estimated 2,000 feet — but he complained that his back hurt. “Ma’am, a military jet crashed. I’m the pilo...

http://youtu.be/8DGIbDP9PVY An experienced wingsuit skydiver smashed into a plane’s wing and was decapitated just 20 seconds into his jump in the South of France, it was revealed during the pilot’s manslaughter trial. Nicolas Galy, 40, was the first of two skydivers who were released from the single-engine Pilatus plane at 14,000 feet over the town of Bouloc-en-Quercy in July 2018, reported the Times. Moments later, the aircraft’s pilot, identified only as 64-year-old Alain C, rapidly descended and caught up with the skydivers as they were gliding in their wingsuits. The plane’s left wing and a strut clipped Galy, beheading him, the court in the city of Montauban heard this week. The victim’s emergency parachute then opened, and his lifeless body landed in a field. In the wake of Gal...

http://youtu.be/utEbDoOt4ds A popular Turkish DJ who was “horrifically tortured” to death in London tried to comfort his girlfriend in his final moments as she was locked up blindfolded in a bathroom, according to shocking court proceedings. Mehmet Koray Alpergin, 43, and his girlfriend, Gozde Dalbudak, 34, were kidnapped by six men near Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on their way home from an Italian restaurant in upscale Mayfair on Oct. 13, 2022. They were taken to an empty wine bar where Dalbudak was blindfolded and locked in a dingy bathroom while Alpergin was beaten, scalded with hot water and stabbed on his feet, a jury was told. Even as he was being mercilessly tortured, Alpergin tried to reassure his girlfriend, who had arrived in the UK just three days earlier, according to Metro. ...

http://youtu.be/e_o1JQHTwVI A passenger on a packed flight in India was arrested after he tried to open an emergency door midair to jump, police said. Officials said Biswajit Debnath, 41, fiercely attempted to force open the emergency doors of an aircraft during a domestic flight from Guwahati to Agartala on Thursday. Chaos ensued after Debnath shot up out of his seat and headed for the doors, prompting one of the 180 passengers on board to rush after him in a desperate bid to stop him. Video footage circulating on social media shows the passenger manhandle an emergency door as the aircraft neared its destination. Crew members quickly intervened, but Debnath initially resisted being restrained, officials told Press Trust of India. In an effort to restrain him, fellow passengers dragg...

http://youtu.be/39wkhWQGbrE New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez has been hit with federal corruption charges related to a years-long scheme in which he allegedly accepted bribes — including gold bars — in exchange for helping three businessmen and the country of Egypt, officials announced Friday. The Democrat, 69 — and his wife, Nadine Menendez — were charged with taking hundreds of thousands in bribes, according to a Manhattan federal indictment. This is his second time facing federal corruption charges. When the feds raided Menendez’s Englewood Cliffs home in June 2022, they found “the fruits” of his “corrupt bribery agreement” including a 2019 Mercedes C-Class, at least 13 gold bars, and $566,000 in cash “stuffed in envelopes.” The feds say Menendez also received mortgage payments and pai...

http://youtu.be/eSWXsBiH6dw WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. Two Las Vegas teenagers accused of mowing down a retired police chief in a fatal hit-and-run last month allegedly also tried to kill another person and crashed multiple stolen vehicles in the same two-hour crime spree. The alleged driver, Jesus Ayala, 18, and his passenger, Jzamir Keys, 16, both faced court on Thursday on a slew of charges, including murder, tied to the Aug. 14 rampage through Sin City that left 64-year-old Andreas “Andy” Probst dead. The teens allegedly kicked off their spree just before dawn when they struck a 72-year-old cyclist with a stolen Hyundai sedan before fleeing and crashing the vehicle, 8NewsNow reported, citing law enforcement sources. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/22/vegas-teens-charged-in-r...

http://youtu.be/vLd-_pZpEQw Former President Donald Trump refused to wear a mask at the height of the COVID pandemic because it smudged his makeup, a former aide claims. Trump made the decision to forgo masks while visiting a Honeywell factory that produced the highly sought products in May 2020, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in her new book, “Enough.” She wrote that the former president chose to wear a white mask for the event, and asked staffers what they thought of it. “I slowly shook my head,” Hutchinson writes. “The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it.” In response, Hutchinson said she pointed to the straps of her own mask — prompting the president to look down at his own, wh...

http://youtu.be/kiMgePir_x4 Bill Ackman has grown Pershing Square Capital Management to more than $16 billion from $54 million since he founded the fund nearly two decades ago. The 57-year-old activist investor speaks with NYP Business Reporter Lydia Moynihan about his return to office policy, his possible presidential picks and why he’s still bullish on New York City. Lydia: You are among the big names on Wall Street who didn’t move to Florida. Why? Bill: The short answer is that I love New York City. My desire to be successful is founded on a desire to be independent. It always seemed crazy to me to sacrifice that independence to save money on taxes. If you make $100 million — some people in finance make even more than that — you can save $25 million of that by living somewhere cheape...

http://youtu.be/jncAESl6wi8 A 2-year-old Michigan girl wandered away from her home with the family’s two dogs – and was found hours later sleeping peacefully in the woods while using one of the pooches as a pillow. State troopers from the Iron Mountain post in the Upper Peninsula were called to the home in the Faithorn area of Menominee County about 8 p.m. Wednesday after the girl, identified as Thea Chase, walked off. Police launched a search using drones and K-9s as citizens from both Michigan and adjacent Wisconsin assisted in the remote wooded area. About midnight, a person riding an ATV discovered Thea about 3 miles away. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/22/michigan-toddler-lost-in-the-woods-found-asleep-using-family-dog-as-pillow/ #michigan #theachase #rescue The New Yo...

http://youtu.be/EMQGo-HJ6-8 Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, his first visit to China since 2004 and his latest bid to end more than a decade of diplomatic isolation under Western sanctions. While there, Assad is set to attend the opening ceremony of the Asian Games, along with more than a dozen foreign dignitaries. He will then lead a delegation for meetings in several Chinese cities. He will also meet President Xi Jinping. Being seen with China's president at a regional gathering should add further legitimacy to Assad's campaign to return to the world stage. Syria joined China's Belt and Road Initiative last year and was welcomed back into the Arab League in May. Faced with a crippled economy and little to show so far from his effort...

http://youtu.be/GCxNVG32juE A Long Island high schooler in the deadly bus crash in upstate New York recalled the living nightmare of waking to screams — then leaping from a window as rescuers pulled his classmates from the wreckage with “blood everywhere.” Farmingdale High School pupil Anthony Eugenio, 15, said he “was sleeping” on the way to a band event in Pennsylvania Thursday when he was startled awake by the bus hitting the pavement before tumbling 50 feet down a ravine. “I woke up, but I didn’t know I woke up — I thought I was in a dream still,” he said soon after the crash that killed two of his teachers and left five students in critical condition. “I was like, ‘This can’t be real’ … and then I heard everyone screaming.” Eugenio said he still thought he was just having a night...

http://youtu.be/xS_8Dmuugk0 Sen. John Fetterman may be allowed to dress like a slob in the halls of power — but it’s still a capital offense in New York City’s finest restaurants. Intrepid Post reporter Jon Levine learned that hard truth this week when he crisscrossed the Big Apple’s culinary landmarks wearing Fetterman’s trademark hoodie, gym shorts and sneakers and tried to gain entry — only to face scorn and mockery from maître d’s with more common sense than Congress. “He would not be permitted here,” sniffed a maître d at Daniel on the Upper East Side, where a seven-course tasting menu runs $275. She admitted she didn’t know who Fetterman was. “We have turned away guests for being improperly dressed regardless of their occupation,” she continued. At famed Le Bernardin, a suited ...

http://youtu.be/4zkG2A4sDCg This time it’s the cops getting ratted out. Gross video posted online this week shows a rat scurrying across an NYPD car’s dashboard outside an Upper West Side stationhouse, which neighbors told The Post is crawling with the beady-eyed scourge. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/rat-takes-a-run-through-nypd-patrol-car-shocking-video-shows/ #rats #nypd #newyork #upperwestside 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.co...

http://youtu.be/1Cak-Y85KAU Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall early Saturday morning, blasting North Carolina with 70 mph winds, heavy rain and coastal flooding, and knocking power out for over 70,000 homes and businesses across several states. The gale touched down near Emerald Isle, in the southern part of North Carolina’s Outer Banks, around 6:15 a.m. with massive gusts just shy of hurricane-force winds. The storm moved quickly inland, heading north with winds slowing to 50 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center, and was forecast to make its way northeast through Sunday. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/ophelia-swamps-north-carolina-threatens-more-flooding/ #tropicalstorm #ophelia #northcarolina #weather The New York Post is your source for breaking news, ne...

http://youtu.be/CU2_00S8bUM The Virginia mother sentenced to nearly 80 years in prison for fatally shooting her two daughters after slipping them melatonin-laced gummies killed them when she could no longer use the girls as “leverage” over her ex-husband, he said Saturday. Ron Youngblood — whose ex-wife Veronica Youngblood was given 78 years behind bars Friday for killing 5-year-old Brooklynn Youngblood and 15-year-old Sharon Castro five years ago — said the deranged murders had been a last-ditch effort to inflict pain on him. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/23/veronica-youngbloods-ex-says-she-used-slain-daughters-as-leverage/ #veronicayoungblood #crime #virginia The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinio...