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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...

http://youtu.be/wd_yMVOhn6Y New footage showed the troubling moment multiple passengers had to be stretchered off a Delta flight after their plane struck “severe turbulence” just outside Atlanta Tuesday night — leaving 11 people hospitalized. Passengers and flight attendants were among those injured when Flight 175 — en route from Milan, Italy — hit turbulence just before 7 p.m., the airline and federal authorities said. Footage shared on social media showed at least two people being carried on stretchers down the aisle of the Airbus A350 after it landed safely at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/passengers-stretchered-off-delta-flight-after-severe-turbulence-injures-11/ #delta #flight #news The New York Post is your sou...

http://youtu.be/n62Wg6q74aM Former President Donald Trump “grossly” exaggerated his net worth on financial disclosure forms for a decade — cooking the books by as much as $2.2 billion in a single year, New York Attorney General Letitia James alleged in court papers filed Wednesday. The fresh claims came in documents in which James’ office asked a judge to rule on parts of her $250 million lawsuit against the ex-president, his company the Trump Organization and kids Eric and Donald Trump Jr. over alleged “staggering” fraud. By allegedly lying on the forms for a decade, Trump, 77, received more favorable loan and insurance terms — “reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten savings and profits,” the Manhattan Supreme Court filing states. His net worth was actually between 17 a...

http://youtu.be/eNWTenRYE0M U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned on Wednesday (August 30) an ongoing coup attempt in Gabon and called on all involved to "to exercise restraint, engage in an inclusive and meaningful dialogue, and ensure that the rule of law and human rights are fully respected," U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said. "He also calls on the national army and security forces to guarantee the physical integrity of the president of the republic and his family," Dujarric said. Military officers announced on national television earlier that the armed forces had taken control and placed Gabonese President Ali Bongo under house arrest. His son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, and others had also been arrested, the officers said. If successful, the Gabon coup would be t...

http://youtu.be/Sko4azJXeWg The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that the organizations have scheduled a nationwide test of their Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) at approximately 2:20 p.m. EST on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Try not to be alarmed. The WEA portion of the test will be directed at all consumer cell phones, while the EAS portion will be sent to radios and televisions. Both of these tests are standard practices and have been run before. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/nationwide-all-device-emergency-alert-set-to-scare-us-all-very-soon/ #emergencyalert #wea #fema The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opi...

http://youtu.be/IvpTSgZIE_o President Biden said Wednesday while discussing wildfire devastation in Maui that his Delaware house “almost collapsed” from a small kitchen fire nearly two decades ago — after telling survivors last week that firefighters “ran into flames” to rescue first lady Jill Biden. The 80-year-old president invoked the tiny 2004 blaze at his Wilmington abode while saying residents of the Hawaiian island won’t be allowed in the damage zone until potentially toxic debris is removed. “If anybody in Maui is listening, you lost everything … and we’re doing everything we can to move heaven and Earth to help you … We’ve already dedicated $24 million to the removal of hazardous material left behind in the fire’s wake … you got to take out the polluted, dangerous stuff,” Biden...

http://youtu.be/8LhU4ZNmpUU Dozens of people were rescued in St Petersburg, Florida, on Wednesday, August 30, after Hurricane Idalia barreled through the region. Footage posted by city officials shows rescue crews in a flooded neighborhood of the city on Wednesday afternoon. By early Wednesday evening, Pinellas County advised residents to “exercise caution when returning home and avoid any roads that remain flooded or have other debris” as recovery efforts continued. #florida #hurricaneidalia #rescue #flood 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/ Fo...

http://youtu.be/BCHZ_mk1wOo Strong winds lifted a vehicle off the ground in Goose Creek, South Carolina, on August 30, as local news reported that the National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed a tornado had touched down in the area that day. Video recorded by Mason Stewart shows a vehicle being flipped into the air by a strong gust of wind, before crashing down onto another. Local news said that NWS officials confirmed a small, brief tornado touched down in Goose Creek on Wednesday. Goose Creek Police Chief LJ Roscoe told local news that “two people were transported to an area hospital with minor injuries.” The NWS issued a tornado watch for the area until Wednesday evening. Idalia weakened into a tropical storm on Wednesday evening, after moving into Georgia, the National Hurricane C...