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http://youtu.be/byMKNBkEvPE Norah O’Donnell is in danger of losing the top spot at “CBS Evening News,” as cost-slashing execs at the broadcasting giant quietly search for her replacement amid sagging ratings, The Post has learned. The 47-year-old news anchor — who muscled her way into the evening slot in 2019 as she fled a reportedly strained relationship with co-host Gayle King on “CBS This Morning” — now stands vulnerable to the network’s bean counters as her ratings have stayed stubbornly stuck in third place, according to sources close to the situation. Insiders likewise pointed to O’Donnell’s hefty pay package that is in the ballpark of $8 million a year and a three-year contract that’s slated to expire next spring. She faces the possible heave-ho after CBS shelled out millions to ...

http://youtu.be/KC1i3pjEzPw It’s a farmers’ market for the stoner set! Manhattan’s troubled Washington Square Park has reached a new low — with brazen drug dealers illegally selling weed from tables laden with pre-rolled joints and jars of pot conveniently labeled so choosy customers can select their favorite strains. Five separate groups of weed vendors offered their wares in broad daylight around the fountain across from the park’s famed arch as tourists, families and New York University students packed the plaza in Greenwich Village on Sunday afternoon. “We’re not supposed to, but we do it,’’ said one of the ganja peddlers, who gave his name as Ghost. The dealer openly acknowledged that he was selling “pure marijuana” in pre-rolled joints for $20 each or two for $30. #NYC #Pot #Ne...

http://youtu.be/b58LQGRB5W4 State legislative special elections provide an interesting index of partisan sentiment. That wasn’t so in the late 20th century, when clever local candidates and notables often got voters to cross party lines. But in this century of increasing partisan polarization and straight-ticket voting, local special elections are a proxy for opinion on national issues. In that light, consider the results of the two special legislative elections that have resulted in a change of parties so far this year. The first was in Connecticut’s 36th state Senate district on Aug. 17. This is the richest state Senate district in Connecticut and may be the richest in all of America. It includes the super-rich town of Greenwich, where Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of presiden...

http://youtu.be/xx_kZrhkOv4 Alec Baldwin said Friday that his “heart is broken” after firing a prop gun that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director of a movie being filmed in New Mexico. “There are no words to convey my shock and sadness regarding the tragic accident that took the life of Halyna Hutchins, a wife, mother and deeply admired colleague of ours,” Baldwin tweeted. “I’m fully cooperating with the police investigation to address how this tragedy occurred and I am in touch with her husband, offering my support to him and his family.” He added: “My heart is broken for her husband, their son, and all who knew and loved Halyna.” Directer Joel Souza was also wounded in the deadly incident that took place Thursday on the desert set of the Western “Rust” on the southern o...

http://youtu.be/rXX9wz7-g64 Actor Peter Scolari died Friday morning at the age of 66 after a two-year battle with cancer. The “Bosom Buddies” actor’s passing was confirmed to The Post by his manager Ellen Lubin Sanitsky of Wright Entertainment. Scolari starred, alongside legendary actor and lifelong friend Tom Hanks, in the 1980s ABC sitcom in one of his early TV roles. He had a 40-plus-year career in Hollywood, starring in iconic films and shows such as “Fosse/Verdon,” “Madoff,” “The Good Fight,” “Murphy Brown,” “The West Wing,” “ER,” “Gotham,” “Law & Order: SVU” and “Ally McBeal.” One of his most recent parts was a recurring role as Bishop Thomas Marx in the CBS series “Evil.” Peter Scolari poses with his 2016 Emmy for HBO's "Girls." Inset: With co-star and lifelong friend Tom H...

http://youtu.be/2Qzh02QeRMM Alec Baldwin’s deadly filmmaking accident is reminding fans of an infamous fatal incident on the set of “Twilight Zone: The Movie” that led to criminal charges and sweeping changes in Hollywood. The fatal shooting Thursday by Baldwin came nearly 40 years after Tinseltown’s deadliest film-set tragedy, in which actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, ages 6 and 7, were crushed by a helicopter while making the “Twilight Zone” flick, which was produced by Steven Spielberg. Six others were also injured in the 1982 stunt, which involved a simulated mortar explosion that detonated too early, hitting the chopper’s rotor blades and forcing it to spin out of control before falling on the actors. Morrow’s “Combat!” co-star Dick Peabody later insisted that his pal’s last...

http://youtu.be/0ZSgflz603w Alec Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, shared a photo of him FaceTiming her Thursday just hours before the deadly shooting unfolded on the New Mexico set of his film “Rust.” Hilaria had posted a screenshot of her speaking to Baldwin, who was in a vehicle on a highway at the time, on her Instagram Story Thursday morning. The actor was in Santa Fe filming his upcoming Western drama at the Bonanza Creek Ranch, while Hilaria was at home in New York with their kids, according to her social media posts. She posted the snap to her Story just hours before her husband’s prop gun accidentally discharged on the “Rust” set, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and injuring director Joel Souza, 48. An eyewitness told Hollywood gossip site Showbiz 411 that Baldwin started...

http://youtu.be/hwlGfJf6fms President Biden admitted during a CNN town hall Thursday night that he has no immediate solution to the problem of spiking gas prices and suggested that Americans would not start seeing relief at the pump until next year. “My guess is, you’ll start to see gas prices come down as we get by and going into the winter – I mean, excuse me, into next year, 2022,” the president told moderator Anderson Cooper at the Baltimore event. “I don’t see anything that’s going to happen in the meantime that’s going to significantly reduce gas prices. “I must tell you, I don’t have a near-term answer,” Biden added before musing on the possibility that he could “go in the [Strategic] Petroleum Reserve and take out and probably reduce the price of gas maybe 18 cents or so per ga...

http://youtu.be/Vle5HPWMYTc The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning that a salmonella outbreak believed to be linked to onions imported from Chihuahua, Mexico, has spread to 37 states — sickening over 650 people. The CDC directed businesses on Wednesday evening to stop selling fresh whole red, white, or yellow onions that were imported from Chihuahua and distributed by ProSource Inc. It also suggested businesses clean any surfaces that may have touched such onions. The agency urged Americans to throw away any whole red, white, or yellow onions that don’t have a sticker or packaging. #CDC #Salmonella #Onions The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and m...

http://youtu.be/CQYoIxaOPXg Partial human remains were reportedly located in a Florida nature park where authorities have searched for Brian Laundrie, and a medical examiner has responded to the area, in the search for the fugitive wanted in the Gabby Petito case. The discovery of remains comes after some items belonging to Laundrie were found in the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park. Law enforcement sources told NBC News that the remains were found in a section of the Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park that had previously been underwater due to heavy rains. A cadaver dog also has been deployed to the scene, CNN reported. A tent was set up in the area, according to chopper video posted by a reporter for News Nation Now. #BrianLaundrie #MissingPersonsReport #NewYorkPost The ...

http://youtu.be/sOOQwBTZzyM Colin Powell, a retired four-star general and White House national security adviser who served as the nation’s first black secretary of state, died Monday as a result of complications from COVID-19, his family said. The 84-year-old was fully vaccinated against the virus. In his four decades of public life, Powell was the first black man to serve as national security adviser near the end of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993. In the latter role, he oversaw the US invasion of Panama and later the US invasion of Kuwait to oust the Iraqi army in 1991. “General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19. H...

http://youtu.be/oPky2hRZo-I Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized in California this week after a urinary tract infection spread to his bloodstream, according to his doctors. The 42nd commander-in-chief was taken to University of California Irvine Medical Center on Tuesday for “close monitoring” and given IV antibiotics and fluids, according to a joint statement from Dr. Alpesh Amin and Dr. Lisa Bardack. The 75-year-old ex-president had been in California for an event for his foundation when he started feeling unwell and fatigued that day, his doctors and staff told CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta. He went to the hospital for testing, which ruled out COVID-19 as well as heart-related problems that have troubled him since he had quadruple bypass surgery in 2004, Gupta sa...

http://youtu.be/RCK7NIiEXF0 The shattered parents of Barnard student Tessa Majors described the family’s “immeasurable pain” on Thursday — as a Manhattan judge threw the book at one of her killers, sentencing him to the maximum of nine years to life in prison. “On December 11, 2019, the hopes and dreams for our daughter Tess came to a tragic end,” said a statement from Inman and Christy Majors and read out loud in Manhattan Supreme Court by Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos. “Nearly two years later, we still find words inadequate to describe the immeasurable pain, trauma, and suffering that our family has endured since her senseless murder,” read Bogdanos as Inman Majors wept in the gallery. His wife was not present. “Tess was a brilliant student, a voracious reader, a poet a...

http://youtu.be/KkhcDu81Sk0 CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta acknowledged that the network shouldn’t have called a controversial drug being used as a COVID-19 treatment a “horse dewormer” — as he was grilled by podcast host Joe Rogan about why the media was “lying” about the medication. Gupta was confronted by Rogan about how the network has handled its coverage of ivermectin, a drug also used to treat or prevent parasites in animals such as horses, on the Wednesday episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” “They shouldn’t have said that,” Gupta said of the network referring to the medication as a “horse dewormer.” The heated exchange over ivermectin began when the pair was discussing Rogan’s bout with the virus earlier this year. Rogan, who is not vaccinated, said he t...

http://youtu.be/EhGHp7Lp9aw A fiercely devoted Florida mom was thrown in jail because she refused to leave her daughter’s bedside in the hospital — and she’s “not sorry that I made them take me out of there in handcuffs.” Lynn Savage, 70, was taken into custody on trespassing charges after she wouldn’t comply with visiting hours while her daughter, Amber, was recovering from brain surgery at UF Health North in Jacksonville, news station WKRC reported. “I could not in good conscience and good heart leave her bedside not knowing how she was going to make it through the night voluntarily,” Savage told the outlet. #Florida #Hospital #NewYorkPost The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion,...

http://youtu.be/csA2Exr6Qdg One of the reasons Dog the Bounty Hunter is so eager to find fugitive Brian Laundrie is so that he can resume his honeymoon in Florida, he said in a new interview. Dog, whose real name is Duane Chapman, told the Sun that he and his new wife, Francie Frane, traveled to the Sunshine State for their honeymoon because she was born there. “I asked her before we got married, ‘Where would you like to go?’ And she said, ‘To Florida to put my feet in the sand, and my ocean,’” the 68-year-old celebrity bounty hunter told the news outlet. The reality TV star had been celebrating his sixth marriage at the JW Marriott Marco Island Beach Resort near Naples before he embarked on his quest to find the fugitive, the Daily Mail reported. #BrianLaundrie #DogtheBountyHunter #...

http://youtu.be/U6bPbEp_L7g It’s been a month since Brian Laundrie vanished into thin air and internet sleuths have been busy imagining what the fugitive — the sole person of interest in Gabby Petito’s death — might look like now. Photoshopped pictures circulating online show the 23-year-old bald and bearded man sporting a decidedly more hirsute look — with long, unkempt hair and a much bushier beard, the Sun reported. Laundrie, who has not been named a suspect in his girlfriend’s death, is the subject of a massive manhunt and multiple sightings across several states after he never returned from what he told his parents was a hike at the 25,000-acre Carlton Reserve in Florida. Authorities have been on the hunt since Sept. 18 for the fugitive, who is wanted on a federal arrest warrant f...

http://youtu.be/gAQCi0F91F4 Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly says he’s against making his employees take the COVID-19 vaccine, but President Biden has forced his hand with the federal mandate. “I’ve never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate. I’m not in favor of that, never have been,” Kelly told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Tuesday regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. Kelly said his employees “have very strong views on both sides” of the issue of vaccine mandates but they were being forced to take it given Biden’s executive order. “The executive order from President Biden mandates that all federal employees and then all federal contractors, which covers all the major airlines, have to have a mandate vaccine in place by Dec. 8 so we’re working through that,” Ke...

http://youtu.be/NeUtd71juwQ Jon Gruden resigned as Las Vegas Raiders head coach after an explosive report Monday night in the New York Times revealed he used homophobic and misogynistic language in emails over a seven-year period ending in 2018. Only a few days after a first email leak caught Gruden using racist language, more emails surfaced showing that Gruden mocked the drafting of the first openly gay player in NFL history, did not support the emergence of women in the NFL as officials, vulgarly used the female anatomy as an insult, and called for the release of players protesting during the national anthem, according to the Times. Raiders owner Mark Davis met with Gruden to accept the Super Bowl-winning coach’s resignation. Assistant coach Rich Bisaccia will take over as interim he...

http://youtu.be/xApu6-Iijws The Pentagon’s former software chief said he quit because China has already won the tech war guaranteeing global dominance — with some US government systems mere “kindergarten level” in comparison. Nicolas Chaillan, 37, told the Financial Times on Sunday that there is “good reason to be angry” at the US failing to rise to China’s cyber threat, even fearing that it puts his children’s future at risk. Read more: https://nypost.com/2021/10/11/pentagon-software-chief-nicolas-chaillan-resigns/ #China #Tech #NewYorkPost The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Catch the latest news here: https://nypost.com/ Follow The New York Post on: Twitter -...

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http://youtu.be/SbDNdzy3Du4 A former top FBI counterterrorism official said Brian Laundrie is likely hiding out somewhere he is “being taken care of” — and isn’t camping in the vast Florida nature reserve where the manhunt is focused. Terry Turchie, a former deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, told Fox News that “people don’t change because they become a fugitive. They tend to try to figure out how they can land in the comfort zone.” The former G-man, who retired from the bureau in 2001, directed the task force that identified and collared “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski and took part in the search for Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph in North Carolina. #BrianLaundrie #FBI #NewYorkPost The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York...

http://youtu.be/m7Jgh9qzw7k Chick-fil-A covertly hikes the cost of items ordered for delivery despite promising consumers low fees, a new class-action lawsuit alleges. Lead plaintiffs Susan Ukpere of the Bronx and Aneisha Pittman of Newark, NJ, allege the chicken chain’s delivery customers are smacked with a 25 to 30 percent mark-up despite advertising that customers only need to fork over a fee of $2.99 or $3.99, according to the Sept. 28 Manhattan federal court filing. The suit contends the identical order of a 30-count chicken nuggets order costs approximately $5-6 more when ordered for delivery than when ordered via the same mobile app for pickup, or when ordered in-store. #ChickFilA #Lawsuit #NewYorkPost The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sp...

http://youtu.be/IAPVPZQUKB4 More than a dozen NBA veterans — including former Coney Island high school star and ex-Los Angeles Clipper Sebastian Telfair — have been charged with ripping off millions from the league’s health plan by submitting bogus invoices with glaring typos and discrepancies, Manhattan federal prosecutors announced Thursday. The indictment accuses 18 former ballers of defrauding $4 million from the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan, which provides additional coverage to eligible active and retired players. The defendants, who earned a combined $360 million during their NBA careers, allegedly submitted “false and fraudulent claims for reimbursement of expenses for medical and dental services that were not actually rendered,” according to court papers. #NBA #Fraud ...

http://youtu.be/CAnCrmmMQpA Over the past couple of months, Allison, a wife and mother of a toddler and teenager in Chicago, says she’s been spending about $50 more each week on groceries to feed her family — and that’s at a discount supermarket chain, Aldi’s. “I used to spend $70 a week, but all of sudden this summer, I noticed that I couldn’t leave the store without spending at least $120,” said Allison, who works in education. Like millions of Americans whose income has not kept pace with inflation — up 5.3 percent in August compared with a year ago — Allison and her family are feeling the pinch of the rising cost of living and giving up some things just to make ends meet. #Inflation #Finance #NewYorkPost The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, s...

http://youtu.be/HHC4ufMiBTE Seasoned New York mob bosses are reluctant to make made men out of millennials, who they worry lack the street smarts and ruthlessness of their predecessors — and are too obsessed with their cellphones. The five families fear handing over the reins to the new generation of mafiosi because they’re softer and dumber, having grown up in the suburbs rather than city streets — and are too attached to technology, sources told the Wall Street Journal. “Everything is on the phones with them,” a former made member of the Colombo family told the paper. Court records even show one Colombo associate completely eschewing the code of silence while threatening a union official over extortion collections — all in easy-to-prove text messages, the outlet said. #NYCMobsters #...

http://youtu.be/Ll5wYd7Vf2w Police on the hunt for Brian Laundrie have reportedly discovered a recently used campsite at the sprawling Florida park where the fugitive in the Gabby Petito case told his parents he was going on a hike. Meanwhile, authorities also have investigated several reported sightings of the 23-year-old in North Carolina, according to a report. A source close his family told CNN’s Chris Cuomo late Wednesday that authorities said they “found fresh traces of a campsite” at the sprawling, 25,000-acre Carlton Reserve in Sarasota. #BrianLaundrie #GabbyPetito #NewYorkPost The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more. Catch the latest news here: https://nypost....

http://youtu.be/dIxH6bjv83c Ed Mullins, the controversial head of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association, stepped down on Tuesday night amid a federal probe into the alleged misappropriation of union funds. His resignation, announced in a union email to members, comes after FBI agents raided SBA offices in Manhattan and Mullins’ home in Port Washington, Long Island, Tuesday morning. “Given the severity of this matter and the uncertainty of its outcome, the SBA Executive Board has requested that President Mullins resign from his position as SBA President,” the email said. “This evening, President Mullins has agreed to tender his resignation as President of the SBA,” the message continued. Agents seized computer gear from Mullins’ home, and other potential evidence, including boxe...

http://youtu.be/sUyHbuptIuY The CIA has called on its frontline spies to step up their operational security around the world after dozens of informants have been arrested, killed or otherwise compromised in recent years, the New York Times reported Tuesday. A cable sent last week from top US counterintelligence officials to every agency station and base included the exact number of human sources arrested or executed by rival services — a detail that is typically a closely guarded secret, the Times reported. The document lays several issues at the feet of case officers responsible for recruiting new informants — including poor tradecraft, underestimating the counterintelligence prowess of foreign agencies, and focusing on recruitment without paying proper attention to potential risks. It...

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