PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A troubling case out of Michigan saw a woman plead no contest to horrific child abuse charges on Thursday. The woman, accused of abandoning three children to live in appalling conditions, faces a six-year prison sentence under the agreement, authorities reported.

The state of the Pontiac residence was shockingly poor. When the children were discovered in February 2025, police evidence teams deemed the conditions so hazardous that they had to wear hazmat suits.

The children, aged 15, 13, and 12, had been surviving largely on their own since either 2020 or 2021, getting by with sporadic food deliveries left on the porch. They lived surrounded by garbage and human waste, according to police reports. The dire situation came to light when deputies responded to a landlord complaining about months of unpaid rent.

Kelli Bryant, 35, the accused mother who resided elsewhere in Pontiac, entered a no contest plea to the charges of abuse. She is scheduled to appear in court again in September for sentencing. Attempts to contact her defense attorney yielded no response.

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald commented on the plea agreement, noting, “This plea will prevent the children from having to testify at trial and ensures Bryant will be imprisoned until they reach adulthood.” She added, expressing hope, “I’m optimistic that the young victims will continue to receive the support and resources needed to recover from this severe ordeal.”

The father lost contact with the kids while in prison in an unrelated matter and was barred by their mother from seeing them when he was released, Sheriff Mike Bouchard said when Bryant was arrested.

For many in New York City, it’s a scenario straight out of their deepest fears.

A nurse from the Bronx shared his chilling ordeal, recounting how an unpredictable assailant suddenly shoved him in a subway station, leaving him unconscious and bleeding as bystanders stood by. The incident occurred without warning, and shockingly, no one stepped forward to offer assistance.

Josue Romano, 47, recounted his terrifying brush with the unknown, which took place while he was waiting for a southbound D-train at Fordham Road station on June 27. Out of nowhere, an unstable individual launched a vicious attack, propelling him face-first into the side of an oncoming train. The force left him with a concussion, Romano revealed in an interview with The Post.

“Did anybody help me out? Nobody helped me out,” Romano clarified on Thursday. His voice carried a sense of disbelief and disappointment. “Not even the conductor. There were people inside the train, and nobody came out to ask what happened to me. Nothing. Nothing.”

The perpetrator remains at large. This week, the NYPD released surveillance footage that, although grainy, offers a glimpse of the suspect. The individual is seen pacing around the subway car, clad in a white undershirt and dark-colored pants, igniting a public appeal for information to bring the attacker to justice.

Romano said he was waiting for his train to head downtown around 2:20 p.m. when he noticed the assailant out of the corner of his eye and became alert.

“This man is acting kind of strange,” Romano said. “I believe he was on drugs or something, and then I see he goes into his duffel bag. I don’t know what he was looking for in the duffel bag. I said, ‘Ok, let me keep my distance because he’s kind of acting kind of funny.’

“But the man that was right behind me, so I said, ‘Ok, let me just walk away, because of things that are going on in New York, there’s a lot of crazy things going on in New York.’”

Despite the precaution, and Romano moving away from the edge, the nut rushed at him.

“I glanced to the right and I see  something white coming towards me,” he recalled. “It was real fast because when I glanced, it was already coming to me so I didn’t have time to react, to like kind of get out the way, and that’s when it happened. I got hit.

“He pushed me in the back right in train that was coming in.”

Romano suffered injuries to his face and mouth, and collapsed onto the subway platform bloodied and unconscious, and was treated at St. Barnabas Hospital when help did arrive.

He said the incident has left him afraid to ride the rails — and skeptical of NYPD claims that the city transit system is safer than it’s been in months.

Major crime in the city’s subway system was down by about 1% in June, compared to last year, although felony assaults were up by 20 incidents in the month, according to NYPD stats.

“The statistics don’t mean anything,” Romano said. “I think  what we see is what goes on  and today is not the same as yesterday. The crime has grown more now than before.

“It’s just the crime is still growing and growing and growing no matter what the statistics say.”

The NYPD is asking anyone with information on the late June attack to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or, for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit tips by logging at  on X @NYPDTips.

Influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, currently embroiled in legal challenges over accusations of rape and sex-trafficking in both the UK and Romania, were recently spotted in Washington, D.C. They were there at the invitation of Donald Trump’s special envoy, Paolo Zampolli.

Zampolli, who once managed a modeling agency and played a key role in introducing Donald Trump to Melania, shared with the Daily Mail that he hosted the Tates at a summer gathering. This event took place on Wednesday at a house in Northwest Washington, D.C., drawing around 150 attendees.

When questioned about the possible links between the event and his State Department responsibilities, the 56-year-old confidently dismissed the notion, stating, “Why would I do that? This was a summer gathering.”

While Zampolli admitted he wasn’t clear on the exact reason for the brothers’ visit to the city, he mentioned to the Daily Mail that “they’re having some business meetings.”

Additionally, on Tuesday, Zampolli escorted the notorious duo to the Ned, an exclusive private members’ club located near the White House and frequented by cabinet secretaries. The Tates’ presence reportedly shocked club members, leading to complaints being lodged with management, numerous insiders revealed to the Daily Mail.

‘They were mostly smoking cigars outside the club,’ a source said, and the pair left at around 11pm and went out for a drink afterward. ‘People in the administration were scared to be seen with Tate,’ he added.

The Tate brothers deny all allegations against them and are yet to face trial. 

Zampolli was named special envoy for global partnerships in March 2025, a role that operates through the State Department.

‘Paolo routinely comes into conflict with State Department leadership, who are embarrassed by him,’ a State Department source told the Daily Mail.

Now Zampolli has attached himself to two of the most polarizing figures in the Trump-aligned media world, introducing the Tates to Washington’s political elite.

The Tate brothers also made their way to Capitol Hill to rub elbows with Republican lawmakers.

A photo obtained by the Daily Mail shows the pair posing with Texas Representative Wesley Hunt in his congressional office.

The meeting came together after Tristan Tate reached out to Hunt through the congressman’s social media aide.

‘Wesley was beyond excited to meet with them,’ said a source in Hunt’s office familiar with the meeting.

Once inside, the brothers bragged about their time in a Romanian prison, including doing 100 push-ups every day, according to the source.

Hunt, a Houston congressman and Army veteran who took office in 2023 and brands himself one of Trump’s earliest and most loyal backers in Congress, finished a distant third in this year’s Republican Senate primary in Texas.

The Daily Mail contacted Hunt for comment. 

The brothers arrived in the capital carrying heavy baggage. Andrew and Tristan were arrested in Romania in December 2022 and charged in June 2023 with human trafficking and forming an organized crime group to sexually exploit women. Andrew was additionally charged with rape.

Romanian prosecutors in August 2024 expanded the case against them to include money laundering, witness intimidation and complicity in the trafficking of minors.

British prosecutors filed 21 charges of their own against the brothers in May 2025, including rape, actual bodily harm and human trafficking.

Romanian courts have ruled the pair will be extradited to the United Kingdom once proceedings in Romania conclude.

The brothers have denied all charges and allegations against them.

The Tates flew from Romania to Florida in February 2025 after authorities lifted their travel ban, a reversal that followed reported pressure from Trump administration figures. Trump told reporters he knew ‘nothing about it.’

ProPublica later reported that a White House official intervened to have federal agents return electronic devices seized from the brothers when they landed in Florida.

This week’s gathering was not Zampolli’s first encounter with the brothers: he and Andrew were seen together on the sidelines of the Milken Institute Global Conference in May, and the two recently recorded a lengthy interview together.

It is unclear whether further meetings or parties for the brothers in Washington are planned later this week.

Zampolli’s place in Trump’s world was cemented in September 1998, after he says he introduced the future president to Melania Knauss at a New York party, two years after his modeling agency, ID Model Management, sponsored her US visa.

Zampolli’s decades in New York’s fashion and society worlds also placed him squarely in the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein was a patron of ID Model Management, and in 2004 he was a partner in Zampolli’s unsuccessful bid to purchase Elite Model Management.

In one 2011 email from the Epstein files released by the DOJ, the pedophile financier warned an Emirati businessman that ‘zampoli is trouble,’ misspelling his name.

In 2013, Zampolli was named as one of four partners in the TerraMar Project, the ocean charity founded by Epstein’s convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.

No evidence has publicly connected Zampolli to Epstein’s crimes, and he has not been accused of wrongdoing in connection with Epstein or Maxwell.

In March, The New York Times reported that Zampolli had contacted a senior ICE official last June after learning that Amanda Ungaro, his ex-wife and the mother of his teenage son, had been arrested on fraud charges in Florida.

Zampolli allegedly suggested that her immigration detention could help him win their custody battle.

Ungaro, whose visa had expired years earlier, was picked up by ICE agents before she could post bail and was ultimately deported to Brazil, though the Times noted she may have faced removal regardless of his involvement.

Zampolli denied seeking her detention or deportation, saying he had only asked about the process, and the Department of Homeland Security said she was removed because of her expired visa and the fraud charges.

Trump appointed Zampolli to the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees in 2020, and in his envoy role he has crisscrossed the globe promoting sports diplomacy and brokering deals, including mineral and aircraft agreements with Uzbekistan.

The envoy position has never been publicly defined, and no financial disclosure for Zampolli has been made publicly available.

Joseph D McBride, attorney for Andrew and Tristan Tate, told the Daily Mail: ‘I am not going to confirm or deny anything. What I will say is this: Washington knows that Andrew and Tristan Tate’s ability to influence the next election is unmatched.

‘Republicans and Democrats love them. Both parties are inviting them to all kinds of interesting events because both parties understand the same thing: the Tate brothers command the loyalty of millions of young men and a growing number of women. All of them vote.’

The State Department has been contacted for comment. 

A newly unveiled video reveals the arrest of a Nantucket official on allegations of driving under the influence with alcohol present in her vehicle after a collision with a street sign.

Bodycam footage from the Yarmouth Police Department captures Leslie Snell, the town Planning Director of Nantucket, Massachusetts, appearing to have difficulty with sobriety tests. Officers responded on April 20 after Snell allegedly crashed into a street sign, as reported by the Nantucket Current.

Upon exiting her Jeep, Snell admitted to an officer that she had consumed “just a couple of drinks” at Giardino’s, a local establishment, as shown in the video from the bodycam.

The video also reveals a bottle of vodka and a box of White Claws inside the vehicle.

A police report states that Snell was charged with operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol and possessing an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

Snell reached a plea agreement on April 21 that puts the driving under the influence charge on hold for one year without a formal finding. Under the deal, she must surrender her driver’s license for 45 days, complete an alcohol education course and pay $600 in fines.

According to a police report, Yarmouth police officer Samantha Voltolini said Snell’s eyes were “blood shot.”

“I observed her to have glassy blood shot eyes,” Voltolini said. “I also observed a moderate odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from the vehicle. I then went over to the driver’s side to speak with her. I then observed a strong odor of alcoholic beverage emanating from her breath.”

Voltolini could be heard telling Snell that Giardino’s was only around 100 yards away.

“I attempted to explain to (Snell) that Giardino’s was only a short ways away and I was confused about how she ended up in the parking lot of the Transmission Specialists,” Voltolini wrote in the report. “I asked her where she lived. She informed me Nantucket. I asked if she had a place in town she said, ‘yes.’ I asked whereabouts, but she could not inform me. (Snell) named ‘North Troy’ as the location she was attempting to go to. It was difficult to gain information from Woodson due to her speaking incoherently. I asked Woodson if she needed any medical attention, but she refused.”

During the field sobriety tests, according to the report and body camera video, Snell swayed from side to side and was unbalanced.

In a comment to The Inquirer and Mirror after being arrested, Snell said, “I deeply regret the event that occurred off-island on April 20 while I was attending to personal commitments. I accept full responsibility for my actions and the matter has been resolved.”

News Media reached out to Snell for comment.

Get ready for a cinematic thrill ride as one of 2026’s standout films, Curry Barker’s horror sensation Obsession, makes its debut this Friday, July 17, exclusively on Peacock.

While that’s an exciting piece of news, another 2026 favorite is also creating buzz—Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi suspense film, Disclosure Day, is poised to hit streaming platforms soon.

The film features a stellar cast including Emily Blunt, Josh O’Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo. This blockbuster provocatively questions, “If evidence emerged that we weren’t alone in the universe, would such a revelation terrify you?” Personally, my answer is an emphatic YES.

Spanning two hours and twenty-five minutes—a runtime I’ve become very aware of since becoming a parent—Disclosure Day boasts a Certified Fresh rating and has already amassed over $230 million worldwide.

Fortunately, Disclosure Day will soon be available for purchase on Video on Demand. Curious about when Spielberg’s latest masterpiece will be available on Amazon? Here’s all the information you need.

Is Disclosure Day Currently Available To Stream at Home?

Nope. The hit film isn’t currently streaming on VOD.

When Is The Disclosure Day Streaming Release Date?

Disclosure Day will be available to purchase on VOD beginning Tuesday, July 21 at midnight ET (July 20 at 9:00 p.m. PT).

Where To Watch Disclosure Day Online:

You can currently preorder Disclosure Day for $24.99 on Amazon or Fandango.

Will Disclosure Day Be on Netflix or Peacock?

Disclosure Day won’t be on Netflix anytime soon. The film is a Universal release, which means that it’ll eventually be streaming on Peacock.

Due to the streaming deal between Universal and Amazon, Disclosure Day will most likely stream on Peacock for the first 120 days (the “Pay 1 window”), then stream exclusively on Prime Video for 10 months, followed by four additional months on Peacock.

When Will Disclosure Day Be Streaming on Peacock?

Decider’s Anna Menta predicts that Disclosure Day will drop on Peacock in or around October 2026.

Disclosure Day will be available to buy on Amazon beginning Tuesday, July 21.