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http://youtu.be/8STmzJyZOYI Manhattan investigators have seized $69 million worth of stolen artifacts bought over the years by a major Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and art collector, according to a report. In the past two years, 89 artifacts from the collection of prominent New York philanthropist Shelby White, 84, were confiscated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s special Antiquities Trafficking Unit after they were deemed to have originally been looted, the office revealed in April. White, the widow of legendary financier Leon Levy, has cooperated with authorities, who have not said she or her late husband knew the pieces were stolen before they were purchased. The majority of the items were taken from White’s massive collection on display inside her swanky Sutton P...

http://youtu.be/7ijf4LY2Z4c IRS agent Joseph Ziegler stepped forward Wednesday as the second whistleblower alleging a coverup in the criminal investigation of President Biden’s son Hunter — calling himself a Democrat who wanted “to do what is right.” Ziegler worked on the investigation since it opened in 2018 and was joined by his supervisory agent Gary Shapley, who oversaw the probe since January 2020, at a House Oversight Committee hearing. “I was the lead IRS case agent on the Hunter Biden investigation. I recently discovered that people are saying that I must be more credible because I’m a Democrat who happens to be married to a man,” Ziegler said. “I’m no more credible than this man sitting next to me due to my sexual orientation or my political beliefs. The truth is my credibilit...

http://youtu.be/NBJ6xHikETQ Former President Donald Trump has lost his bid to have the Manhattan District Attorney’s “hush money” case against him heard in federal court, according to a ruling from Wednesday Trump, 77, had been seeking to shift DA Alvin Bragg’s fraud case from state to federal court, arguing it “involves important federal questions.” But Manhattan federal Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled the case should be heard in state court, finding that Trump was not acting in his capacity as president when the alleged crimes occurred. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/19/trump-loses-bid-to-have-hush-money-case-tried-in-fed-court/ #donaldtrump #alvinbragg #manhattan The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opi...

http://youtu.be/xdqAmuPuc2g The Alabama woman who went missing for 49 hours last week had searched for one-way bus tickets to Nashville, details about Amber alerts and the Liam Neeson film “Taken” on the day she vanished, police said. Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis told reporters Wednesday officers still don’t know exactly what happened in the time Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell vanished on July 13, and they are waiting to interview her again. “That’s the $100 question, we don’t know what happened after she got out of her car,” Derzis said. “Everything else is unknown.” Russell, 25, disappeared after she called 911 to report a toddler wandering the I-459 in Alabama at 9:34 p.m. Derzis said on the day of the disappearance, Russell looked up the film “Taken”, a movie where Neeson p...

http://youtu.be/AienjYUmT-Y A top Democrat downplayed concerns that Hunter Biden received money from the same Chinese energy firm that doled out cash to the indicted informant Gal Luft. “Who cares if they had money from the same company,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) blurted out during a brief exchange in the House Oversight Committee hearing Wednesday. Luft has been indicted on eight counts, including for acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Chinese entities. Throughout the Oversight Committee’s hearing Wednesday on IRS whistleblower allegations, Democrats needled Republicans for taking Luft seriously, suggesting it undermines their credibility now that his indictment is public knowledge. Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) sought to fend off those attacks by underscoring the fac...

http://youtu.be/lTJ8xqI73OM A Florida jury awarded an 8-year-old girl $800,000 in damages after the child suffered second-degree burns from a McDonald’s chicken nugget four years ago, according to a local report. In May, a separate jury found the fast food giant and a franchise holder at fault for the scalding hot nugget that burned the leg of little Olivia Caraballo, then 4, after she opened a Happy Meal in the car. After just two hours of deliberation Wednesday, the Broward Country grand jury decided on the dollar amount — which is significantly lower than the $15 million the girl’s family had asked for in their lawsuit, NBC6 South Florida reported. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/19/florida-jury-awards-girl-800k-after-she-was-burned-by-mcdonalds-nugget/ #mcdonalds #jury #...

http://youtu.be/SctRVwRoH04 Rex Heuermann’s now-estranged wife quickly came to terms with the fact he was being accused of being a perverted serial killer, according to the top cop in the case — who said she told officers, “OK, it is what it is.” Asa Ellerup, 59, was home in Massapequa Park last Thursday when officers burst in at the exact moment her husband was busted outside his midtown Manhattan architectural firm, Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison told Fox 5 on Wednesday. “When we told the wife, she was shocked, she was embarrassed,” Harrison said. “But there was a point where we showed her certain pictures and she said, ‘OK, it is what it is.'” The commissioner did not reveal exactly what images helped Heuermann’s wife of at least 25 years accept that he may be b...

http://youtu.be/bOTHVo6qsew A lion got loose near Berlin Thursday, prompted a massive search by German authorities, who are urging residents to stay indoors. Authorities used helicopters, drones and infrared cameras to search for the renegade beast — who was captured on grainy video at one point and believed to be chasing a wild boar. About 100 police officers, hunters, and vets are taking part in the widespread search efforts, with the goal of tranquilizing and capturing the lioness — and only killing her if she poses a threat to somebody. Police say they were first informed of the missing lion around midnight Thursday when they received alarming cellphone footage of the animal lurking in the streets. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/police-hunt-for-escaped-lion-on-southern...

http://youtu.be/TNEsRGN1i9g A 2-year-old boy named Woodrow Bundy tragically died after contracting a deadly brain-eating amoeba while swimming in Nevada. The boy’s mother, Briana, broke the heartrending news in a Facebook post on Tuesday. “Woodrow Turner Bundy returned victoriously to our father in heaven at 2:56 am,” she wrote. “He is my hero and I will forever be grateful to God for giving me the goodest baby boy on earth, and I am grateful to know I will have that boy in heaven someday.” Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/toddler-dies-from-rare-brain-eating-amoeba/ #toddler #amoeba #nevada 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...

http://youtu.be/mmRpgUAFpEE Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire. Online videos showed demonstrators at the diplomatic post waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr ahead of a planned burning of the Islamic holy book Thursday in Stockholm. The videos showed dozens of men climbing over the fence at the complex, with the sound of them trying to break down a front door. Another showed what appeared to be a small fire being set. Other footage showed men, some shirtless in the summer heat, inside what appeared to be a room at the embassy, an alarm audible in the background. Read more at https:...

http://youtu.be/EGNytpBshKo This is U.S. army private Travis King. The U.S. military on Wednesday was still scrambling to determine what happened to him after he apparently - without authorization - crossed a heavily guarded border into North Korea. "Someone ran close to me very fast and I thought, what is going on? I don't think anyone who was sane would want to go to North Korea, so I assumed it was some kind of stunt.” Sarah Leslie was on a civilian tour of the border between North and South Korea with King when he took off. "It all happened pretty quickly. I probably only saw him running for like a few seconds and that's all it would have taken to get across the border. And then, you know, a couple of seconds after I saw him, that's when the soldiers shouted and started running aft...

http://youtu.be/XoBkoLAj-ZY A young Florida mother was arrested Tuesday after trying to use a parody service to rent a hitman to kill her toddler son. Jazmin Paez, 18, allegedly solicited an assassin through the fake website RentAHitman.com to take out her 3-year-old before Thursday. The Miami-Dade mom is accused of submitting pictures of her little boy and the exact location he was going to be, court documents obtained by NBC Miami show. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/miami-mother-jazmin-paez-18-used-fake-hitman-site-in-attempt-to-kill-off-3-year-old-son/ #hitman #miami #news 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/tD-7rZAlKcA Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted House Democrats who he said were trying “to censor a censorship hearing” Thursday after 102 of them signed a letter asking him to be disinvited from testifying before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “Many of my fellow Democrats, I’ve spent my life in this party. I’ve devoted my life to the values of this party,” Kennedy, who is challenging President Biden for the 2024 Democratic nomination, told panel members in his opening statement. “This itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address,” he said, holding up the letter against him led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.). “This is an attempt to censor a ...

http://youtu.be/lF1cYKPHnXo Katya Ileri’s little girl just wanted to swim with her siblings and dad. The Turkish family had all been jumping off a boat into aqua blue waters, and the little girl had arm bands on, so they thought she was safe. But in a terrifying video, Katya shows what can happen when kids don’t have safe floatation devices. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/terrifying-video-shows-moment-little-girls-armbands-come-off-in-sea/ #floaties #swimming #sea 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: T...

http://youtu.be/ViRMJtBhahk A 25-year-old exchange student visiting Texas from India is in critical condition from being struck by lightning and hurled into a nearby reflecting pool. Susroonya Koduru was walking near a small body of water at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in Houston when she was struck by lightning around 5:40 p.m. on July 2, Thomas Gilliland of the Harris County Sheriff’s Office told the Tri-City Herald this week. Koduru was either struck directly or received the effects of a direct hit on a nearby tree, officials explained to KTRK. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/lightning-strike-hurls-exchange-student-into-houston-reflecting-pool/ #lightning #houston #news The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, spor...

http://youtu.be/uhDTJtgqmA8 Haley Odlozil, the wife and mother who shared her life on TikTok following her Stage IIIC ovarian cancer diagnosis, has died. She was 30. Odlozil’s husband, Taylor, who also appears in the viral videos, announced the heartbreaking news in a lengthy social media statement. “It is with unbelievable sadness that I tell all of you my sweet Haley has passed away. I cannot begin to describe the amount of heartache & grief myself & our entire family is experiencing,” he began. “I never knew my heart could physically hurt. I’ve never seen someone fight so hard to live. Her love for me, Weston, her family, & her friends is what has kept her going for so many years, especially the last 8 months.” Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/14/haley-odlozil-de...

http://youtu.be/cA6VyH9iuB4 Mexican officials lodged a complaint with the United States government over the floating barriers Texas installed in the Rio Grande River to deter migrants from crossing into the state illegally. If the orange buoys impede the flow of the river, they could be in violation of 1944 and 1970 treaties between Mexico and the US that govern the boundaries and water that separate the two nations, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary Alicia Bárcena wrote in a diplomatic note. “We are sending a mission, a territorial inspection to see where the buoys are located … to carry out this topographical survey to verify that they do not cross into Mexican territory,” she added. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/mexico-files-complaint-over-texas-border-control-effort...

http://youtu.be/Od19wGx4Sno Is this the real-life Twilight Zone? An unidentified woman appeared to be frozen in time on a busy street, a TikToker has claimed in a now-viral video posted this week. “She was like that for a minute before,” reads the text on the freaky footage, which has racked up 4 million views in only four days. Eerie footage captured the woman, dressed in white pants and a black long-sleeve, appearing to be “frozen” in place while walking down the sidewalk. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/15/woman-appears-frozen-in-matrix-optical-illusion-what-the-f-k/ #tiktok #opticalillusion #viralvideo 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 ...

http://youtu.be/MHyHQiKS3f0 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. Kennedy floated the idea during a question-and-answer portion of raucous booze and fart-filled dinner at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street. “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically targeted. COVID-19 attacks certain races disproportionately,” Kennedy said. “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not but t...

http://youtu.be/YODkSxELdVM The parents of the Alabama woman who vanished after she stopped to help a stranded toddler on a busy highway believed the child was being used as “bait” to lure their daughter out of her car — before she was mysteriously returned home alive. Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell, 25, went missing Thursday night when she pulled over to help a wandering toddler on I-459, the Hoover Police Department said. The nursing student called 911 before dialing her sister-in-law. “My daughter-in-law could hear her ask if the child was OK, and the child didn’t respond — at least she didn’t hear him or her respond,” her mother, Talitha Robinson-Russell, told WVTM-TV on Sunday. “Then she heard our daughter scream.” The parents believe the toddler Russell spotted on the side ...

http://youtu.be/hIShpCCfODU A passenger onboard a small plane leapt into action and crash-landed the small aircraft on Martha’s Vineyard Saturday after the pilot passed out behind the controls, authorities said. The female passenger took over the controls of the 2006 Piper Meridian when the 79-year-old male pilot suffered a medical emergency upon final approach in a terrifying moment, Massachusetts State Police said. The woman landed the plane in a grassy area near a runway at the island’s airport at about 3:15 p.m. — but the impact of the “hard landing” caused the left wing to break in half, police said. The pilot was medevacked to Boston Hospital in life-threatening condition, while the woman was unharmed. She was evaluated at Martha Vineyard Hospital and released. Read more at htt...

http://youtu.be/JSKK4gsxDD4 Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a Democrat, is facing criticism for “Nixonian tactics” after her administration admitted to creating a list of her most vocal critics and providing it to local authorities. “The list was made in response to a request from the Boston Police Department after the Mayor had been harassed and physically intimidated by individuals for several months outside her home, at city functions such as the annual neighborhood parks coffee hours, and at other public events,” Wu spokesman Ricardo Patron said in a statement to the Boston Herald. The acknowledgment by the administration that it had compiled the document came after the list was uncovered in an email obtained through a public records request by Wu’s opponents, the outlet noted. The tacti...

http://youtu.be/F9YEiAZd8RM Cringeworthy prison selfies have emerged of double murderer Alex Murdaugh – who appears carefree and topless in his cell as he serves his two life sentences. Murdaugh is seen in dozens of images taken from his prison tablet, according to YouTube channel Phone Calls From Prison, which said it obtained the snaps from the South Carolina Department of Corrections in a Freedom of Information request. The disgraced lawyer is either wearing a white T-shirt or displays his pasty torso in his spartan digs at the McCormick Correctional Institution, where he is serving two life sentences for gunning down his wife, Maggie, 52, and 22-year-old son Paul in 2021. “Alex Murdaugh’s Only Fans premiere,” YouTuber Jump Suit Pablo tells his roughly 60,000 subscribers. “I’m only ...

http://youtu.be/6wIoG7sAIOI Heartbroken colleagues and friends are mourning the loss of “gifted and consummate professional” CBS-New York meteorologist Elise Finch, who died suddenly over the weekend, just a day or two after appearing on air. Finch, who delivered the weather forecast on Channel 2 across the Big Apple starting in 2007, died at a local hospital, her employer, New York affiliate CBS station WCBS, announced Sunday evening. She was 51. Her cause of death has not been determined. “Elise was a gifted and consummate professional who took great care with her work,” the television station wrote in a statement announcing her death. “She was also a wonderful ambassador in the community, including her hometown of Mount Vernon.” Finch, whose full name was Elise Dione Finch Henrique...

http://youtu.be/eGW1iC2pXVM An Australian man has been rescued in the Pacific after surviving for two months on rainwater and raw fish in what has been likened to the film “Cast Away” — but his companion was a dog, not a hand-printed volleyball. Sydney resident Tim Shaddock, a 51-year-old cancer survivor, and his pooch Bella set off from La Paz, Mexico, in April on a catamaran journey to French Polynesia, but their vessel was damaged in a storm several weeks later, Australia’s 9News reported. The pair survived by drinking rainwater and eating raw fish as they waited for a miracle while adrift in the Pacific. On Wednesday, a helicopter conducting surveillance for a tuna trawler spotted the tiny catamaran bobbing in the middle of the vast ocean. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/1...

http://youtu.be/qFAW705ga5c Heavy rains are pounding an already saturated Northeast for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, canceled airline flights and power outages. A sudden flash flood also swamped a southeastern Pennsylvania road late Saturday afternoon, sweeping several cars away and claiming at least four lives. Authorities say three other people, including a 9-month-old child, remain missing in Bucks County’s Upper Makefield Township. Hundreds of flights were canceled at New York-area airports because of the weather, and Tweed New Haven Airport in Connecticut closed its terminal. Resident from Yardley Nick Primola said people are used to the flooding weather but were caught off guard that the flooding reached to the little side streets in the ne...

http://youtu.be/FRrYPRWfBEw Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested this last week that NATO should be disbanded. “It is insane to even keep NATO going. Russia lost the cold war. The people who run Russia are people who we want running Russia. Let’s help them the way we did Germany and Japan after that war with the Marshall plan. That’s not what we did,” Kennedy, 69, told guests during a press dinner Tuesday at Tony’s Di Napoli on East 63d Street in the Upper East Side. Kennedy, who is staging a long-shot bid to oust President Biden in the 2024 Democratic primary made the remarks during a question an answer portion of the dinner — before the event infamously dissolved into a miasma of beer and farting. “If you treat somebody like your enemy. It’s a self-fulfil...

http://youtu.be/SzbiC1PrYvg Suffolk County officials, representatives from the New York State Police and FBI will hold a press conference to announce a significant development in the investigation of the Gilgo Beach Murders. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/14/gilgo-beach-murders-suspect-rex-heuermann-in-custody-live-updates/ #gilgobeach #rexheuermann #longisland #crime #fbi 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.com/NYPost

http://youtu.be/3JYJEoXkvS0 Fault! An irate inmate repeatedly stabbed dirty doctor Larry Nassar in his cell Sunday afternoon because he lewdly said he wanted to leer at female tennis players during Wimbledon. Shane McMillan — who has priors for assaulting a corrections officer and attempted murder — took umbrage with the serial sex abuser’s remarks and attacked him with a crude shank. Read more at https://nypost.com/2023/07/12/larry-nassar-stabbing-sparked-by-molesters-lewd-comment-about-wanting-to-watch-girls-at-wimbledon-report/ #larrynassar #wimbledon #news 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/nypost...