Breaking news has emerged involving Adam Schefter.

According to Front Office Sports, the renowned NFL insider and ESPN are on the verge of finalizing a long-term contract extension to keep Schefter with the network.

Although the specifics on the financial details remain undisclosed, the agreement is expected to extend well into the 2030s.

In 2022, The Post revealed that Schefter’s most recent deal with ESPN had a value of approximately $9 million annually.

At 59, Schefter has dismissed any speculation of retiring, unlike his former colleague, NBA insider Adrian Wojnarowski, who famously ended his “Woj bomb” career in early 2024 to take a position at his alma mater, St. Bonaventure.

“I know a lot has been made about my age this week and how I’m retiring, which by the way, no f–king chance about that if you don’t mind my language,” Schefter said on his eponymous podcast in April.

In extending Schefter, ESPN will now pair him long-term insider Ian Rapoport who joined ESPN when they acquired NFL Network. Rapoport then signed a multi-year extension with ESPN in April.

Schefter arrived at ESPN in 2009 and created a strong career as one of the network’s and football’s go-to voices for news.

He is also a key figure on several shows including NFL Countdown during the football season.

The footballer who forces us to first fall in love with the game usually carries a certain swagger. Thierry Henry had it, and that this idol for a 90s-born generation is so in awe of Michael Olise today should tell you this 24-year-old Frenchman is a fully-fledged member of the same club.

Children are captivated by him, eager to watch, follow, and emulate his actions. Olise manages to evoke a sense of youthful wonder in Henry, who enthusiastically labels the French player as a ‘freak,’ a ‘phenomenon,’ and ‘otherworldly,’ even calling him their ‘most crucial player,’ despite the presence of Kylian Mbappe on the same squad. This team is set to face Morocco in the World Cup quarter-final on Thursday in Foxborough, near Boston.

Olise’s style is marked by effortlessness, a cool demeanor, and an air of nonchalance. However, his path could have looked quite different; he might have been in Kansas City alongside England, training with Harry Kane, his Bayern Munich colleague, and gearing up for a match against Norway in Miami this Saturday. Under Thomas Tuchel’s guidance, rather than Didier Deschamps, his journey could have taken a distinct turn.

CHICAGO (WLS) — Andrew Boutros, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, appeared before a federal judge on Thursday morning.

Concerns have been raised regarding the handling of a sealed case by the top prosecutor, which involves a notorious Venezuelan gang.

Boutros’ court appearance occurs as Democrats call for his resignation over matters related to a separate legal case.

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Judge Laura McNally reprimanded U.S. Attorney Boutros, criticizing him and his office for not adhering to a sealed order concerning the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua.

Although she noted that no tangible harm resulted and did not make a judgment on Boutros’ intentions, she emphasized the necessity of complying with court mandates.

The controversy stems from possible violations of a court order sealing a criminal complaint against alleged members of the street gang.

According to court records, a federal judge had refused to unseal the case when prosecutors made a rushed request just 15 minutes before a scheduled news conference.

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For his part, Boutros outlined in a 14-page filing that it was not his intent to violate the order.

He added he thought the order had been unsealed and had not received an email that it hadn’t been.

The most recent proceedings are a continuation of the intense legal scrutiny surrounding Boutros’ tenure as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.

Thursday’s summons follows criticism over Operation Midway Blitz and the collapse of the Broadview Six protester case earlier this year where charges were dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct.

Boutros told the judge, “We respect the court and the courts orders and hold it in great respect.”

He also promised look into the miscommunication in his office.

In a tragic incident that has drawn international attention, a mother from America, originally hailing from New York, was discovered dead in her Killarney home, a town favored by tourists in Ireland. Authorities have noted that a person of interest in the case has since left the country, with some reports from local media suggesting the individual might be an asylum seeker.

Identified as Jamey Carney by the Irish Prime Minister, the 43-year-old’s body was found on Tuesday in County Kerry. An Garda Síochána, the national police service, confirmed the details of the discovery.

Authorities stated that the person of interest departed the region early on Tuesday, prior to the discovery and reporting of Carney’s body. A murder investigation has been initiated, and local police are collaborating with global law enforcement agencies.

Carney, originally from Westchester County just north of Manhattan, relocated to Ireland in 2021 alongside her young daughter, as reported by the Irish Independent.

The State Department confirmed to News Media that an American citizen died in County Kerry on July 7 and said it was providing consular assistance to the victim’s family.

“The Trump Administration has no higher priority than the safety and security of Americans,” the agency said.

The Irish Mirror reported the person of interest was an asylum seeker living in state-run accommodation in Killarney who allegedly fled to Turkey. The outlet also reported that the man, who previously lived in France and the United Kingdom, knew Carney and frequently stayed at her home.

Carney’s social media profiles described her as a “New Yorker in Ireland” and showed her with a man she identified as her partner. In one recent post, she referred to them as a “mixed couple.” Police have not identified the person of interest or said whether he is the man featured in the posts.

Documents reviewed by News Media indicate she also had ties to Rockland County, New York, and northern New Jersey, while News Media sources said she was a familiar face along Yonkers’ MacLean Avenue, a neighborhood with a large Irish-American community.

The Irish Independent, citing sources, reported Carney was found with bedclothes covering her body and had suffered severe head and neck injuries, with indications she may have fought to defend herself. The room was heavily bloodstained, according to the outlet.

Investigators believe the person of interest first arrived in the United Kingdom before traveling to Ireland, RTÉ reported. Detectives have contacted airline and transport officials and are coordinating with British authorities as they work to establish his identity and movements.

Despite the international search, Irish police have not released the man’s name, image or a description, saying they are not in a position to comment on his age, name or nationality for legal reasons, according to RTÉ.

The news has rattled the picturesque southwest Irish town, a gateway to Killarney National Park and the famed Ring of Kerry, two of Ireland’s biggest draws for American visitors.

Carney’s LinkedIn profile indicated she moved to Ireland in 2021 to work for a healthcare outsourcing company after previously working as an insurance agent and real estate salesperson in the New York metropolitan area.

Her social media accounts are filled with selfies and content with her daughter as well as her partner. It shows she also supported the Free Palestinian movement and her bio included criticism of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Carney is being remembered locally as a devoted mother who loved living in Killarney.

Councillor Martin Grady, who said he knew her personally, told the Irish Independent she was “a loving, caring mother” and “always happy and smiling.”

Carney marked the Fourth of July with her partner just days before her death, per her social media account.

A Fourth of July celebration took a devastating turn for two Southern California teenagers, as they suffered severe hand injuries, potentially resulting in amputations. Now, one of their mothers is urgently warning others to be cautious.

Maria Escalante, mother to twin boys, shared with CBS News how her son, along with a friend, ignited an illegal firework that they had found on the streets of Anaheim. The firework exploded in their hands almost immediately.

As a result, Escalante’s son lost several fingers on his right hand and is currently in the hospital with both hands heavily bandaged.

His twin brother, who witnessed the harrowing incident, is deeply traumatized by what transpired, according to Escalante.

“He’s really not doing well. He will likely remain in the hospital for around two months. His hands are severely damaged,” Escalante explained to CBS.

The devastated mother said that her son would need reconstructive surgery, but if there isn’t blood circulation in his surviving fingers, then the only way forward would be to amputate his fingers.

“They’re going to do their best to reconstruct his hands, but they can’t guarantee nothing. … They’re going to see if he has proper circulation going to the last fingers he has, to the few fingers he has left in his hand,” she told the news outlet. 

Escalante went back to the scene on S. Mountain View and found pieces of the illegal firework. She is demanding that the Anaheim Police Department investigate the pipeline of the pyrotechnics. 

“His [the other teen’s] mother told me that every year they sell illegal fireworks here, so I don’t know if the Anaheim Police Department knows about this or not, but they need to start investigating,” she said. She added the other boy’s hands were also badly injured.

Illegal fireworks continue to pose a severe safety threat throughout California.

According to 2023 data from the California Department of Public Health, fireworks incidents led to 718 emergency department visits and 200 nonfatal hospitalizations across the state.

Last month, The California Post reported that banned fireworks are steadily streaming into the Golden State from Nevada, where a dozen retailers are seeing a substantial influx of California buyers seeking to evade local bans.

The devastating consequences of these explosives were seen at a Fourth of July party last year, when an 8-year-old girl lost her life after a man ignited an illegal $400 cake packed with professional-grade explosives that ultimately malfunctioned.

A shocking testimony emerged during the preliminary hearing on Thursday for Tyler Robinson, accused of killing Charlie Kirk, as his transgender roommate and romantic partner took the stand.

The hearing featured a video from an April 2026 police interview with 23-year-old Lance Twiggs in Utah. During this interrogation, Twiggs was questioned about the events following Kirk’s assassination at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.

In the interview, Twiggs recounted meeting Robinson face-to-face in 2023 when they decided to cohabit as roommates, eventually leading to a romantic relationship two months later. Twiggs recalled the day of Kirk’s death, noting Robinson left home early, claiming the need to cover a long work shift.

According to Twiggs, the next contact with Robinson was around 11pm that night, when Robinson called him to check under his keyboard for a handwritten note. This note, as stated in court documents, revealed Robinson’s intention: ‘I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.’

Twiggs recounted that Robinson returned home the following morning, visibly distressed, pacing their residence, and avoiding any discussion regarding Kirk’s murder.

Twiggs claimed Robinson eventually admitted to the assassination, began crying and told Twiggs ‘he wishes he hadn’t done it.’

Robinson said he was going to go to his parents or turn himself in. 

Twiggs was vaulted into national infamy after prosecutors alleged that Robinson left him the confession, as well as texts about plans to hide the murder weapon. 

Authorities said Twiggs quickly cooperated with investigators and offered his DNA for testing. Twiggs also provided messages Robinson had texted in which the suspected murderer said he believed Kirk ‘spread too much hate.’ 

In his police interview shown at Thursday’s hearing, Twiggs said he was not especially interested in politics, and said he and Robinson never previously discussed Charlie Kirk before the shooting. 

He said Robinson would occasionally rant about Donald Trump and Republicans, but said the extent of their discussions about LGBTQ rights was about legislation the President was pushing. 

When asked about engravings found on bullets at the shooting scene, Twiggs said Robinson had told him he was going on a hunting trip and asked for an engraving tool for the expedition. 

Twiggs said Robinson had talked about the hunting trip in general for months, then about a month before the shooting started talking about engraving bullets.

Investigators have claimed to have found bullet casings engraved with political messages in the gun, including one reading: ‘Hey fascist! Catch!’

Prosecutors pushed to release Twiggs’ police interview video as they allege Robinson assassinated Kirk because he was upset over the influencer’s conservative political views.

Twiggs was granted limited immunity in the case, meaning the statements he made to investigators cannot be used against him by prosecutors. 

After Twiggs’ video statement to the police was played, prosecutors presented text messages allegedly sent between Robinson and Twiggs after Kirk was killed. 

The first message shows Robinson telling Twiggs to ‘drop what you’re doing, look under my keyboard.

Twiggs replied, ‘What? You’re joking right?… You weren’t the one who did it right?’

To which Robinson allegedly replied, ‘I am, I’m sorry.’

Robinson’s message continued, ‘I had planned to grab my rifle from my drop point shortly after, but most of that side of town got locked down. 

‘It’s quiet, almost enough to get but, there’s one vehicle lingering.’ 

Robinson allegedly then discussed trying to get rid of the rifle used to shoot Kirk, writing: ‘If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence.

‘Going to attempt to retrieve it again, hopefully they haven’t moved on. I haven’t seen anything in the news about them finding it. Will update you by midnight.’  

Twiggs then asked Robinson how long he had been planning the shooting, to which he replied: ‘A bit over a week, I believe.’

Authorities said Twiggs quickly cooperated with investigators and offered his DNA for testing, and this week prosecutors said both Twiggs’ and Robinson’s DNA were found on a towel wrapped around the murder weapon.

In the alleged confession note, which Twiggs confirmed finding in his interview with police, Robinson referred to him by his chosen name ‘Luna’, instead of Lance.

‘If you are reading this per my text, then I am so sorry. I left the house this morning on a mission, and set an auto text,’ the note read, per the court filings. 

‘I am likely dead, or facing a lengthy prison sentence. I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, and I took it. I don’t know if I will/have succeeded, but I had hoped to make it home to you. I wish we could have lived in a world where this did not feel necessary. 

‘I wish I could have stayed for you and lived our lives together.’

Debate over showing the video led to a lengthy back-and-forth as Robinson’s defense attempted to block Twiggs’ recorded statements and force the suspect’s former lover to testify in-person, which would have allowed him to be cross-examined. 

On Wednesday, Utah District Judge Tony Graf said he would allow the video to be played, but 15 minutes of the video would be redacted. 

It is unclear what was on the redacted portion of the footage, but Graf said he had concerns it could influence future jurors in the case. 

Graf’s decision to redact 15 minutes of the footage led to a scathing legal filing from Kirk’s widow Erika, who slammed the court for a lack of ‘transparency’ in the high-profile case.

‘To not be transparent here, to not be open, to not let the world see what happened, will create doubt and distrust in the judicial system,’ Erika Kirk’s lawyer Jeffrey Neiman said in the filing after making the same argument in court. 

Twiggs was living with Robinson in a townhouse in St. George, Utah, at the time of Kirk’s assassination. Twiggs has not been charged with any crime related to the assassination. 

Twiggs went into hiding following the assassination and was not seen for five months, until the Daily Mail tracked down the elusive roommate in Texas in February. 

The 23-year-old was reportedly kicked out of his strictly Mormon home when he was 18 over disagreements about religion, drugs and gaming, but he appeared to have reconciled with his family as he moved south to be with them.  

Those who knew Twiggs said at the time that they were stunned to see the quiet, video game-obsessed Utah native thrust into national infamy by the case. 

Twiggs grew up in a Mormon family in St. George, Utah, as the son of a hot tub salesman father and insurance broker mother, and attended a high school for academically gifted teens where he excelled as a talented pianist. 

Twiggs and Robinson went to high school just four miles from each other in Utah, but appeared to only cross paths after Twiggs graduated from Dixie Success Academy in 2022.

While a student at the high school, Twiggs was known as a talented pianist who performed Gershwin’s Prelude No. 1 in a recital in 2020, per The New York Post. 

His brother was also a talented musician who played Chopin at the recital, and at the time Twiggs’ mother gushed on Facebook: ‘The kids music had been like a peaceful river flowing through our home for many, many years. I feel so grateful.’

But reports say Twiggs fell out with his strictly Mormon family after he graduated and moved into a townhouse in St. George, with Robinson. It is not clear how the pair first met.

A relative told Fox News that his father kicked him out aged 18 because Twiggs ‘wasn’t being respectful’ and he was being ‘problematic.’

The relative said issues with ‘gender identity’ played a role, but ‘the real reason he was acting out was because he was using drugs and alcohol, and was addicted to gaming.’

The relative added that there were ‘other roommates’ in the home at various times, but they all eventually moved out until it was only Twiggs and Robinson living together.

A Reddit account reportedly belonging to Twiggs told a similar story, as he wrote: ‘Was told I was possessed by a demon and then within 30 mins kicked outta the house because I started laughing and wouldn’t go to the bishop for a blessing.

‘Later found out they just didn’t like me and were looking for a way to get me out of the house. Wasn’t even 18 at the time.’

However, the account that Twiggs became addicted to drugs was disputed by former friend Braylon Nielsen, who said Twiggs fell out with his family because he rejected their Mormon faith.

‘I loved Lance. His parents kicked him out of his house, and he lived with us. His parents never sat right with my family,’ she told the Post last year.

She described Twiggs as a ‘straight A’ student who was ‘very hardworking’ as a teenager, but his parents couldn’t accept his antagonism to their religion.

After meeting Robinson and moving in together, the pair reportedly began a romantic relationship.

It is unclear what Twiggs did for a living, with a relative saying he was ‘maintaining a job and able to pay rent,’ but he had dreams of being a professional video game player.

In a disturbing turn of events, a suspect was apprehended shortly after launching a Molotov cocktail at a wheelchair-bound victim near the police headquarters in Oklahoma City, according to local authorities.

The harrowing encounter was captured by surveillance cameras positioned outside the HQ. The footage reveals the man in the wheelchair crossing a street diagonally at approximately 8 a.m. on July 2. Following closely, another individual crosses the street, then turns back to confront the wheelchair user.

In the footage, the suspect, whose identity remains undisclosed, can be seen igniting an object before tossing the fiery projectile at the man in the wheelchair.

Immediately after the explosive object was thrown, the victim found himself briefly engulfed in flames as the suspect audaciously pushed the wheelchair. Thankfully, the timely intervention by law enforcement brought the shocking episode to a quick resolution.

A passing vehicle could be seen stopping, and two people got out. A nearby Oklahoma City police detective and a bystander pulled the victim from the fire while another police officer detained the suspect.

The victim suffered minor injuries, was treated at a hospital, and is expected to recover, according to local media.

The suspect faces multiple felony charges, including assault with intent to kill and assault and battery with a deadly weapon, according to the Oklahoma City Police Department.

A motive for the incident has not been disclosed.