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http://youtu.be/ZZy2TTSDqCs A 37-year-old Virginia mother was charged with indecency this week after police caught her naked with a missing 15-year-old boy — whose twin brother she is also accused of abusing. Ashleigh Watts was initially nabbed when cops came to her Chesapeake, Va., home in July looking for the teen and she asked them to wait outside while she put on a bra and let her dogs out. “Officers advised several minutes later that Watts returned to the door with her two dogs still in the residence, allowing them to enter,” court records obtained by Law & Crime state. “As officers removed the mattress in an upstairs bedroom, they were able to see a white male juvenile hiding in a small space that was only wearing boxer briefs. “When asked by officers if he was [the runaway ...

http://youtu.be/22ilmpcGdKs Newly released video eerily shows Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin bragging about surviving assassination attempts — further fueling conspiracies that the Russian warlord may still be alive. The footage was released on a Telegram channel linked to Prigozhin’s mercenary group on Wednesday — a week after he is understood to have died in a fiery plane crash. “For those who are discussing whether I’m alive or not, how I’m doing — right now it’s the weekend, second half of August 2023, I’m in Africa,” Prigozhin, 62, says in the clip released by the Wagner-linked Grey Zone Telegram channel. “So for people who like to discuss my liquidation or my private life, how much I earn or whatever else — everything’s OK,” he adds with a dismissive wave of his hand. Read ...

http://youtu.be/_yIISH52678 CNN’s newly appointed chairman Mark Thompson warned staffers at the ratings-challenged cable news outlet that the broadcast news industry was “approaching peak disruption” — as the rank and file moaned that “morale is in the sh-tter’ due to the turnover at the top. Thompson, the former New York Times and BBC boss who will take over CNN on Oct. 9, fired off a memo to the network’s 4,000-strong workforce on Wednesday in which he described the challenges facing the network. “We face pressure from every direction — structural, political, cultural, you name it,” he wrote in the memo, the contents of which were reported by the Financial Times. “Where others see threat, I see opportunity.” Thompson’s main challenge will be to boost the network’s sagging ratings, w...

http://youtu.be/RJks3m7XIB8 Survivors of the blaze which killed more than 70 people in Johannesburg on Thursday (August 31) described how they escaped the smoke filled apartment block. One man from Malawi, Omar Arafat, said he had lost his sister in the fire and told how his small niece was thrown from the building and caught by people outside. It is not clear if the child survived. Another man said the fire escape was closed and many died from the effects of smoke filling the building, which was occupied by homeless people, many thought to be migrants. The blaze killed at least 73 people and injured 43, the municipal government said, in one of South Africa's worst such tragedies in living memory. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/south-africas-building-fire-leaves-52-dead-au...

http://youtu.be/7YvzUzSXBbY Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro snapped at a protester and tried to snatch their “Trump lost” poster Wednesday after a federal judge rejected his bid to forestall a contempt of Congress trial. Navarro, 74, will face two counts starting Sept. 5 over his refusal to fulfill a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Wednesday that Navarro had failed to meet the burden of proof needed to demonstrate that executive privilege had been invoked to shield him from congressional subpoenas, allowing the trial to move forward. Executive privilege gives the president the right to keep certain communications confidential. Navarro claimed that Trump had invoked executive privilege an...

http://youtu.be/3gB99r3QVUU What do you do when in the eye of the hurricane? Go for a dip, of course. A Florida resident sparked waves of concern across the panhandle when she was filmed swimming through a flooded street during Hurricane Idalia. A video of her doing laps amid disaster has amassed over 1.3 million views on TikTok as viewers wondered if the activity was safe or even sanitary. “This was truly ‘the perfect storm,'” Lexi DeLeon, 23, told Jam Press of her mid-deluge dip, which occurred at 4:45 a.m. on Anna Maria Island in Manatee County. This came right before the Category 3 storm battered the panhandle, knocking out power lines, ripping roofs off houses and inundating entire neighborhoods with water. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/31/woman-swims-through-idalia-flo...

http://youtu.be/dzIyphyVnhw An 5-foot-tall murderer escaped from a Pennsylvania prison Thursday, just one week after getting a life sentence for stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death, authorities said. The area within a six-mile radius of the Chester County Prison, outside Philadelphia, was put on high alert, as residents were warned that Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was on the loose and a serious danger to the public. “Danelo Cavalcante is considered an extremely dangerous man. We are asking for the public’s help in locating him,” Chester County DA Deb Ryan said in a statement. “Law enforcement is doing everything now to locate him.” It wasn’t immediately clear how he escaped. The Brazilian, who speaks Spanish and Portuguese, was sentenced to life in prison without parole last week over the...

http://youtu.be/txnk9VEU6vM The average American employee hasn’t received a raise at their current job in the last three years. That’s according to a recent OnePoll survey of 2,000 American adults ahead of Labor Day. Although Labor Day’s core mission is to celebrate workers’ contributions to America, 46% out of the 1,859 employees polled said they feel “somewhat recognized” at work, while 8% said they don’t feel recognized at all. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/average-american-employee-hasnt-had-a-raise-in-3-years-poll/ #raise #employee #salary 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/nypostsp...

http://youtu.be/HfwJ9TwicXk Talk about a vacation this woman will never forget. A Maryland woman went viral on TikTok after revealing she was ghosted by a man who flew her out to Miami but initially she had “no idea why.” The woman named Chandler, 30, said the man packed up his stuff while she was asleep in a hotel room they shared and left for good, the Daily Mail reported. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/maryland-woman-says-man-ghosts-her-by-sneaking-out-hotel-room-after-flying-her-to-miami-for-just-their-second-date/ #ghosts #date #miami 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 Ca...

http://youtu.be/z6BuNfoJYqA An irate American Airlines passenger allegedly got himself kicked off a flight after repeatedly complaining about a fellow traveler stashing too many bags in “his” overhead bin space, viral footage shows. The man, dressed in a yellow t-shirt with his hair in a top knot, was caught on camera repeatedly ranting that “there’s no space” after another passenger supposedly stored luggage above him and then took their seat. “This guy put his luggage up here, now we don’t have any space,” the enraged passenger could be heard saying in the video, which was posted on Reddit on Wednesday. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/man-fuming-about-overhead-bin-space-kicked-off-plane-after-threatening-flight-attendant-dont-point-at-me/ #overheadbin #kickedoffflight #b...

http://youtu.be/V8jLz2HzCJk A lioness grabbed a nature photographer’s GoPro camera and shot a wild selfie video while on the prowl in Kenya. The plucky party animal is shown sniffing the stick-mounted camera — which was set up in the hopes she would snatch it — before bolting off with it in her mouth at the Maasai Mara National Reserve. Footage features an up-close shot of the ferocious feline’s sharp teeth along with a quirky angle of her nose as she dashes through the bush-dotted landscape. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/lioness-grabs-gopro-camera-and-shoots-wild-selfie-video-in-kenya/ #lion #gopro #kenya The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Subscrib...

http://youtu.be/7STR_WkzxFQ A federal judge on Friday sentenced a member of the far-right Proud Boys who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in a failed bid by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters to block Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory, to 10 years in prison. Dominic Pezzola did not play a leadership role in the group and was the only defendant of five to be acquitted of seditious conspiracy. He was convicted of other felonies, including obstructing an official proceeding and assaulting police. “You personally played a significant role in the events that day,” U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said. “It was a national disgrace, what happened.” Kelly noted that Pezzola was a new member of the group and had been acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but als...

http://youtu.be/GD8g6RvvafE President Biden defended his GOP rival Mitch McConnell after the Senate leader once again froze up while answering questions from reporters — insisting that the bizarre episode is “part of his recovery” from a recent concussion. The president said McConnell’s “response” was not unusual when recovering from such an injury, and denied having any concerns about the 81-year-old’s ability to effectively lead the Senate. “I spoke to Mitch. He’s a friend and I spoke to him today,” Biden said when asked about McConnell’s health at a news conference on FEMA’s response to Hurricane Idalia. “And, you know, he was his old self on the telephone. “And one of the leading women on my staff, her husband’s a neurosurgeon as well,” he noted. “It’s not at all unusual to have th...

http://youtu.be/CN37uGcU9bI A team of hunters put those gator grabbers to shame after hauling a more than 900-pound “dinosaur” gator from a Florida lake, as seen in jaw-dropping videos and photos making waves online. “I had fear like I never felt before,” Kevin Grotz, an outdoorsman who runs the outfit Florida Gator Hunting, told Orlando station WESH 2 of corralling the huge beast. Weighing a whopping 920 pounds and measuring 13.3 feet long, the gatorzilla was the second largest specimen ever harvested in the state — with the biggest weighing 1,000 pounds. The lifelong Floridian said he’d never “experienced anything like this” in his 20 years as a charter boat captain. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/01/hunters-bag-920-pound-dinosaur-alligator-i-thought-i-was-going-to-die/ #f...

http://youtu.be/SmvV7EG5tk0 Jimmy Buffett, the legendary musician and songwriter, died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones on Friday. He was 76 years old. Buffett, whose hits include “It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere” and “Trip Around the Sun,” earned his stripes as one of the most captivating names in music with a career that spanned 60 years. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/09/02/jimmy-buffett-legendary-margaritaville-singer-dead-at-76/ #jimmybuffett #musicians #celebritydeaths2023 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...