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A gripping bodycam video reveals the tense moment when New York City police officers intervened to save a woman standing on the steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge, high above the East River, on Wednesday.

According to the New York Police Department, officers from the Emergency Service Unit were dispatched at approximately 7:38 p.m. following reports of a distressed individual on the bridge.

The recently released video captures officers scaling the bridge to reach the woman, whose feet were precariously hanging over the side of one of the bridge’s steel cables.

“I just wanna talk,” one officer tells the woman. “What’s happening today?”

The officer continued speaking with the woman, urging her to accept help.

“I wanna help you, that’s why I’m up here right now,” the officer said. “I genuinely care, I do. It’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem, it really is. I don’t know what you’re going through, but I want to understand. We have services we can get you to.”

“The strongest thing you can do right now is accept help, I promise you,” he continued. “That’s the strongest thing you can do.”

As the woman stood on the cable while holding onto another support cable with one arm, an officer moved close enough to wrap his arms around her and pull her to safety.

“Don’t do it. Don’t do it, please. Please, please,” the officer said. “I got you. You’re okay, I promise. I got you, I promise. Everything’s gonna be OK. You’re not in trouble.”

Police said officers spent nearly an hour talking with the woman before safely bringing her down the bridge.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch shared the bodycam video on social media and praised the responding officers.

“This video of a rescue last night on the Brooklyn Bridge will take your breath away,” Tisch wrote.

“High above the East River, NYPD ESU officers climbed onto the Brooklyn Bridge to reach a woman in crisis who was threatening to jump,” she continued. “For nearly an hour, they stayed with her, spoke with her, and waited for the moment they could safely pull her back from the edge. The care, courage, and compassion these officers showed was just extraordinary. May God bless them.”

Officials said the rescue unfolded during rush hour and forced the closure of all eastbound lanes on the bridge for several hours.

On Thursday, a federal appeals court reaffirmed the legality of a statewide ban on semiautomatic weapons in Illinois. This law was enacted as a direct response to a tragic shooting during an Independence Day parade.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit’s decision overrules a previous lower court ruling that had deemed the ban unconstitutional. In a 2-1 decision, the appellate court determined that the Illinois statute aligns with the Second Amendment and conforms to longstanding traditions of firearm regulation in the country.

“Decisions about adopting such measures rest with our chosen representatives,” the appeals court declared while reversing the lower court’s decision.

The majority opinion also counters arguments from the plaintiffs who claimed semiautomatic weapons were not responsible for mass shootings.

“The indisputable evidence shows a strong link between the use of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines with the increased gravity of this societal issue,” the court opinion stated.

Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker said in a post on X that the decision is “a victory in the fight to end gun violence that helps keep our communities safe.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry trade association seeking to stop the ban, said that it is disappointed with the decision and plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case.

The gun trade group said it agrees with Chief Judge Michael Brennan’s dissent in which he wrote that the country prohibits governments from banning “firearms commonly owned for self-defense.”

“Because the people have overwhelmingly chosen the AR-15 rifle and its magazine as their weapon of choice, they are protected by the Second Amendment,” the judge’s dissent states.

The Protect Illinois Communities Act was signed into law in 2023 by Pritzker and bans AR-15 rifles and similar guns, large-capacity magazines and an assortment of attachments.

It came six months after a 2022 shooting in which a gunman on a rooftop in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park opened fire on a parade, killing seven people and injuring more than three dozen.

The law prompted immediate pushback from county sheriffs who said they refused to enforce what they considered an unconstitutional law, while gun owners and advocates sued.

In 2024, a federal judge overturned the ban, leaning on recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings that strictly interpret the Second Amendment right to keep and bear firearms.

The injunction was set to take effect 30 days after the judge’s decision. But that same day, Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul filed a notice of appeal, which ultimately led to a stay in the injunction.

Raoul said Thursday’s decision enhances public safety. “We have seen the damage that assault weapons and large-capacity magazines can inflict, and these weapons of war have no place in our communities,” he said in a statement.

Last month, the Supreme Court announced it will consider whether bans on semiautomatic rifles, often called assault weapons, violate the Second Amendment. In the fall, the court, which has expanded gun rights, is expected to hear appeals challenging a ban in the Chicago area, which predates the statewide law.

Israel has reportedly provided the United States with intelligence pointing to a fresh plot by Iran to assassinate former President Donald Trump. This revelation has added a new layer of tension to international relations.

According to a Thursday report from The Wall Street Journal, this assassination scheme is the latest in a series of threats from the Iranian regime. These threats stem from their desire to retaliate against Trump for the 2020 US airstrike that killed Qasem Soleimani, a high-ranking official within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

When approached for a statement, the White House directed inquiries to comments previously made by Trump at a NATO summit in Ankara, reflecting the gravity of the situation.

“They want to eliminate the American leader — me,” Trump remarked. “I’m listed on all their target sheets. I realized this morning that I’m on each and every one of them. Until now, I’ve had some luck, but who knows how long that will hold out.”

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“These are evil, sick people,” the president continued. “And we have to root out that cancer. That cancer. You know what you do? You’ve got to cut out cancer early. And that’s the way I feel.” 

Trump traveled to Turkey on his new Qatari “palace in the sky” plane, but took a different Air Force One home. The plane switch was a strategic “distraction” to keep the commander-in-chief safe, the White House said.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who accompanied the president to the summit, was instructed not to travel to Israel as planned shortly before Trump chose to switch planes in Turkey. It’s unclear if the Iranian threat extended to the war secretary.

The Wall Street Journal report did not include details of the alleged assassination plot.

Derek Chauvin is once again challenging the judicial system, pressing for the court to revisit his request for a new trial.

Recent legal filings indicate that Chauvin has appealed the decision of a judge who denied his petition for post-conviction relief.

In April 2021, Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Evidence presented during the trial showed that the former police officer knelt on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds. During this time, Floyd was in a prone position, handcuffed, and deprived of the oxygen necessary for brain function, which ultimately led to his death.

Represented by criminal defense lawyer Gregory Joseph, Chauvin submitted an appeal on June 29. This came after a judge’s decision on May 1 to reject his plea for post-conviction relief.

“None of the claims raised in this Petition for Post-Conviction Relief warrant relief,” the 41-page order read.

The judge denied Chauvin’s entire post-conviction petition more than five months after it was initially filed in November 2025.

The petition’s arguments include prosecutors improperly relying on video evidence, jury instructions being legally flawed and police officials giving false testimony, among others.

In the May 1 order, the judge repeatedly applied Minnesota’s Knaffla rule, which generally prevents defendants from using post-conviction proceedings to raise issues that were already decided on direct appeal or could have been raised earlier but were not.

The judge concluded that essentially every one of Chauvin’s claims fit into one of those two categories.

Joseph was not Chauvin’s defense attorney for his initial trial, KTTC reported. Joseph has represented him since his conviction and continued appeal efforts.

While legal battles might not overhaul the city’s Department of Education, kudos to Susan Muzafar, a dedicated teacher at Information Technology High School, for unearthing a serious instance of fraud that seems to be widespread within DOE institutions.

Muzafar is pursuing compensation, alleging that school officials altered a student’s failing English grade to a passing one without her consent.

Furthermore, she argues (quite credibly) that she faced repercussions for voicing her concerns.

She asserts that the student wasn’t adequately prepared for an advanced course and didn’t complete the required work; the grade modification reflects a recurring tendency at Information Technology High School to place students in challenging courses and award them unmerited grades.

A roster of “accomplished” students provides a favorable impression of administrators — why focus on genuine educational outcomes?

Such cheating — by school leaders — is longstanding and rampant across the DOE system.

The Post exposed it at Brooklyn’s John Dewey HS in 2015 (kids passed science class by watching “Jurassic Park”!) and in a whole long series of “worthless diploma” stories across a decade.

How many schools are playing these games to hide their failure to teach? The recent Success Academy study identified 906 failures — more than half the city’s 1,600 schools.

Meanwhile, the State Education Department is lowering graduation requirements to further cover up failure all across New York.

The people in charge of the public schools — in the city and indeed the entire state — don’t give a damn about delivering for the kids, and the system’s set up so they don’t have to.

In a shocking act of vandalism, three teenage girls were apprehended after a surveillance camera captured them launching a lit firecracker through the window of a nursery room in a California residence. Their reckless action sparked a fire that devastated a space lovingly prepared for an expected baby.

This disturbing event took place on June 30 in Citrus Heights, a suburban area near Sacramento. Local firefighters were urgently summoned to the scene following reports of a fire outbreak at an apartment complex.

Upon arrival, the firefighting crew was confronted with a mattress engulfed in flames inside one of the bedrooms. The intense efforts to douse the fire paid off, yet the damage had already taken its toll.

Despite their quick action to tame the blaze, the resulting thick smoke and extensive fire damage left the bedroom uninhabitable.

The damaged room held special significance for Antonio Cadena and Lellises Morgans, expecting parents who were eagerly preparing it for their soon-to-arrive son, Noah.

Surveillance footage captured the terrifying moments leading up to the fire. Two girls can be seen lingering outside the apartment before appearing to notice a security camera and pointing toward it.

Moments later, after spotting an open window, they peered inside, looked around the room, then lit a firecracker before tossing it through the window and running away.

A dog can be heard barking frantically as the explosive lands inside. Seconds later, the sound of a fire alarm can be heard.

Thankfully, nobody was injured in the fire.

Cadena told the station he had been at home playing a video game when his wife called to tell him the apartment was on fire.

He rushed to the nursery, where he found the room ablaze, and – with the help of a passerby – managed to slow the flames using a garden hose until firefighters arrived.

Morgans said she was horrified that anyone could deliberately target what was clearly a baby’s room.

‘Seeing someone actually do that to someone’s house… they saw it was a baby room… just to see that these girls just don’t care about anything… it’s unbelievable, honestly, that they would do something like that,’ she told ABC10. 

Anthony told the outlet that he was home at the time playing a video game when his wife called, telling him the house was on fire.

He found the nursery in flames and, with the help of a bystander, was able to contain the fire with a garden hose before first responders arrived. 

The family has now launched a GoFundMe to rebuild the nursery before baby Noah arrives.

‘As they prepare for the arrival of their baby, they are now faced with the unexpected expense of replacing the nursery, baby essentials, and repairing the damage to the room caused by the fire,’ the fundraiser reads which has so far generated $25,000.