Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sharply criticized New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and vowed to “tell the truth” about him during his visit to address the UN General Assembly later this week.

“Shame on you, Mr. Mamdani. Shame on you for supporting the Hamas terrorist monsters who butchered our people. Shame on you for inciting riots against New York Jews,” Netanyahu said in a fiery video posted on X.

Mamdani called on New Yorkers to protest Netanyahu’s visit in July, although he has since sought to deny making that appeal. He has also retreated from a campaign pledge to personally arrest the prime minister, acknowledging that he does not have the political authority to do so.

“I’m coming to the UN. I’m going to tell the truth about our heroic soldiers, and I’m gonna tell the truth about you,” Netanyahu declared.

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The Israeli leader’s message came after Mamdani renewed his call for Netanyahu to be arrested upon arriving in New York. The mayor has accused Netanyahu of perpetrating a “genocide” in Gaza.

After a friendly meeting with President Trump at Gracie Mansion on Monday, Mamdani told CNN that he believes the International Criminal Court should intervene. The interview was not listed on his daily schedule.

“When it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu, I have described him as I believe him to be — a war criminal and an architect of a horrific genocide of the Palestinian people,” Mamdani said.

Lindsay Clancy’s defense team is seeking an investigation into the juror who pushed to convict her of murdering her children by strangulation. The defense has also argued that Desronvil’s refusal to yield to pressure from other jurors should lead a judge to dismiss the charges, a position that drew a forceful response from Desronvil’s attorney.

“The ‘Looney Tunes’ motion filed yesterday by Kevin ‘Shooter McGavin’ Reddington to investigate Michael is not just an attack on Michael for being the courageous lone holdout juror,” attorney Edward Paltzik wrote on X Tuesday morning, referring to Desronvil.

“Reddington’s motion is actually a full-frontal attack on the U.S. Constitution,” Paltzik wrote. “Because if the new normal is that jurors are going to face brutal reprisals for disagreeing with a defense attorney, you can kiss the Sixth Amendment goodbye.”

Paltzik warned that granting the defense’s request to investigate his client could have lasting consequences for the American criminal justice system.

“If we follow his destructive proposal to its logical conclusion, we’re going to have an endless cycle of prosecutors investigating holdouts who oppose ‘guilty’ and defense attorneys investigating holdouts who oppose ‘not guilty,’” he wrote. “Pretty soon we’ll end up with… a retrograde justice system that will look a lot like the Hatfield-McCoy Feud: a cycle of carnage so malignant that its origins will fade in importance, replaced by the hopeless death spiral of the cycle itself.”

In a motion filed Friday, Reddington requested a “limited inquiry” into Desronvil, seeking information about his background and any potential criminal history, along with phone records, courthouse surveillance footage and other records.

Paltzik and Reddington did not immediately respond to requests for comment from News Media on Tuesday morning.

In a separate filing, Clancy attorney Martin Weinberg argued that Judge William Sullivan’s decision to overrule a defense objection during the trial should justify dismissing the charges against the 36-year-old defendant on double jeopardy grounds. That motion also focused on Desronvil and allegations that he failed to follow the judge’s instructions and apply the law.

“The jury twice informed the Court that one of its members was refusing to apply the Court’s instructions regarding the fundamental concept of reasonable doubt,” Weinberg wrote. “After the first such report, the Court asked each juror individually whether he or she was able to apply the law. Upon receiving the second report, the Court tempered its response even further, simply reminding all jurors as a group of their obligation to follow its instructions generally. The Court denied Ms. Clancy’s explicit requests to go further.”

Weinberg’s filing contended that Sullivan acted improperly by declaring a mistrial before investigating the holdout juror. It cited the jury foreperson’s allegation that Desronvil made “statements acknowledging doubt but refus[ing] to apply it to the verdict as the law states.”

Paltzik said he began representing Desronvil last week, as the juror faced increasing public scrutiny from fellow jurors, Clancy’s defense team and her supporters.

Several jurors have spoken publicly since Clancy’s mistrial was declared on Sept. 4. Some, including the foreperson, accused Desronvil of disregarding doubts about the prosecution’s case. Desronvil denied that accusation in his only public comments.

“I didn’t have any doubts,” he said in a statement first reported by NewsNation last week. “As I tried to explain different possible theories during deliberation, I kept getting cut off as if I had doubts based on the evidence present.”

He said that based on the physical evidence, witness testimony and the prosecution’s presentations, he “thought it was enough proof that she knew exactly what she was doing and planned.”

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, admitted killing her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — but argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings. Prosecutors argued she planned the murders and understood that what she was doing was wrong.

Clancy is due back in court Sept. 29.

Hurricane Polo rapidly intensified into a Category 5 system Tuesday morning, while forecast models suggested moisture and remnants from the powerful storm could eventually affect parts of the United States.

Polo was packing maximum sustained winds of 160 mph and traveling east at 6 mph, roughly 360 miles from Zihuatanejo, Mexico.

The hurricane is currently tracking east across the Pacific Ocean. However, the National Hurricane Center expects it to make a pronounced turn toward the northwest Tuesday night before shifting west-northwest on Wednesday.

Over the next seven to 10 days, a small number of forecast scenarios steer Polo or its leftover moisture toward California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Southern California could see the first indirect effects. Even if the storm stays offshore, larger ocean swells, dangerous rip currents and unusually humid tropical air may arrive by the weekend.

Several model runs show Polo weakening as it crosses northern Mexico, with its remnants potentially moving into Arizona and New Mexico before moisture spreads into western Texas later on.

Still, most forecasts keep Polo over the Pacific, and the National Hurricane Center is not currently predicting a US landfall.

Ross Ellet, a meteorologist with 13ABC, wrote on Facebook: “While a few models have this storm turning into the Gulf of California, and possibly into the Southwestern part of the US, most weather maps push this storm northwest away from land. This will need to be watched in the days ahead.”

Forecasters said Polo may strengthen again through Tuesday night, though its intensity could rise and fall on Wednesday.

Hurricane-force winds extend up to 35 miles from the eye, while tropical-storm-force winds reach as far as 90 miles.

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Mexico has issued a tropical storm watch for the coastline stretching from Tecpan de Galeana to Manzanillo. Damaging weather could begin affecting that region by early Wednesday.

Polo is expected to produce four to eight inches of rain across coastal Guerrero and Michoacán through Thursday, with isolated amounts of up to 12 inches. The intense rainfall could cause life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in mountainous terrain.

Coastal areas of Oaxaca, Colima and Jalisco could receive three to six inches of rain. Polo will also generate powerful swells, creating dangerous surf and life-threatening rip currents along southwestern Mexico’s coast.

Dylan Federico, a meteorologist with Florida’s WSVN 7 News, said on Facebook: “Polo is forecast to become one of the strongest hurricanes of all-time in the Eastern Pacific.”

Spaghetti models—computer-generated projections that map possible hurricane tracks—currently show only a handful of scenarios bringing Polo or its remnants into the United States.

California represents the earliest potential point of concern, although only a few models bring Polo’s center close to the state.

Even so, Southern California could experience large swells, hazardous rip currents and higher humidity by the weekend.

Arizona has the clearest potential path, with several tracks carrying the system north through the Gulf of California or Sonora between Monday and Wednesday of next week, potentially bringing heavy tropical rain and flash flooding.

Fewer tracks reach New Mexico, with those that do carrying a much weaker system or tropical moisture east from Arizona and northern Mexico during the middle of next week. 

Heavy rainfall and localized flooding would be the primary threats.

Texas is the least certain and most distant possibility. A handful of projections carry Polo’s moisture into western or southern Texas late next week, but they do not show a Category 5 hurricane reaching the state.

The family of Nolan Wells is demanding that his autopsy be released publicly and that the U.S. Department of Justice investigate his death, accusing Mississippi officials of attempting to close the case “without getting to the truth.”

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family, said they “will not rest” despite a grand jury’s finding that Wells’ July boating death was consistent with drowning and showed no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

The family says the finding does not explain why an independent autopsy identified “recent unexplained blunt force injuries to the back of [Wells’] head.” The 18-year-old was found two days after he disappeared during a July 4 boat trip with friends, all of whom were white.

“The State of Mississippi is attempting to close the chapter on Nolan Wells’ death without getting to the truth,” Crump said in a statement issued late Monday.

“Mississippi’s own pathologist found two bruises on the back of this young man’s head and informed investigators of them early in this investigation,” Crump said.

“An independent autopsy documented traces of blood and recent blunt force injuries to the back of Nolan’s head and his back. To this day, not one person has explained how they got there,” he added.

“We don’t know how Nolan died, and neither does the State of Mississippi. Mississippi must keep investigating, and if it will not pursue this to the end, the Department of Justice should,” Crump said.

“This grand jury result leaves us with more questions than answers. Nolan’s family will not rest until we know what happened to him, and neither will we,” he stated.

Crump, who has represented the families of prominent civil rights cases involving Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, has argued since joining the case that race may have played a role in Wells’ death.

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Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath accused Crump of inflaming racial tensions with those claims.

“There is absolutely no evidence to support the allegations that Nolan’s disappearance and death were racially motivated,” Myers McIlrath said in a video statement Monday after the grand jury’s findings were released.

“Nolan’s friends loved Nolan, and Nolan loved them. Nolan chose to stay on the island that day, and there is not a scintilla of evidence to contradict that,” she said.

“I’m not suggesting that a grieving mother police the rumors surrounding her child’s death. What I am suggesting is that the Crump team knew better but did not do better,” Myers McIlrath added.

Wells’ parents are expected to address the public later Tuesday.

The grand jury met last week and issued 132 subpoenas, hearing testimony from 43 witnesses and seven experts about the events of July 4 on Horn Island, according to a partially redacted report.

Wells was last seen that afternoon. According to his friends, he decided to remain on the island and return later with another group.

His body was discovered two days later.

The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Texas prosecutors told an Italian court they will not seek the death penalty for a man accused of killing his pregnant wife and fleeing the country. The decision came as his trial was about to begin and removes a major obstacle to his extradition to the United States.

Lee Gilley, 39, is charged with capital murder in the October 2024 death of his wife, Christa, who was nine weeks pregnant at the time. The Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that she died from neck compression in a homicide. Gilley has pleaded not guilty.

Authorities allege that Gilley removed his ankle monitor on May 1 and left Texas shortly before his trial was scheduled to start. According to court records, he reached Milan Malpensa Airport in Italy using a false name and forged travel documents before Italian authorities arrested him.

Gilley’s U.S. attorney, Dick DeGuerin, previously told News Media that Italy sought a written assurance that prosecutors would not pursue the death penalty before weighing his extradition. Italian authorities could also require guarantees that Gilley would not receive a sentence of life without parole, DeGuerin said.

In a Friday court filing obtained by News Media, the Harris County District Attorney’s Office said it will not seek the death penalty against Gilley. However, prosecutors did not rule out life without parole as a potential sentence.

“Nevertheless, the State files this unusual notice because the defendant continues to falsely insist to the Court of Appeal of Turin that he remains subject to the death penalty, and that a judge or jury could assess the death penalty notwithstanding the State’s decision not to seek that punishment,” the filing states.

Harris County prosecutors also accused Gilley’s Italian lawyer, Monica Grosso, of giving the Turin Court of Appeal misleading information by claiming that a life-without-parole sentence could not be commuted.

“Should he be sentenced to life without parole, the defendant would be eligible for commutation consideration,” prosecutors wrote. “It is our hope that this notice will put an end to the defendant’s charade so that he can be tried by a jury or judge in the United States and the victims receive the justice they deserve.”

The Turin Court of Appeal held a hearing on Sept. 7, but Gilley’s extradition was delayed again, according to DeGuerin, who spoke with News Media.

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At a July 15 hearing before the Turin Court of Appeal, Gilley said he was seeking protection in Italy, according to NBC News. The court blocked the extradition request during a July 20 hearing.

Grosso also said the defense believes Christa had a blood disorder and that blood found in the couple’s bedroom was inconsistent with the prosecution’s account of her death.

“I am seeking protection in Italy,” Gilley said. “They want to punish me, and I am asking for protection for myself and my children.”

Anne Bremner, who advocated for Amanda Knox during her detention in Italy, said Gilley made a “very smart choice” by fleeing to a country that does not have the death penalty.

“It was a very smart choice for him to flee to Italy of all countries because they do not have the death penalty. They won’t extradite if a death penalty is on the table,” Bremner said.

Bremner said removing the death penalty from the case “would be enough for the Italians to allow him to come back to Texas,” although she acknowledged that Italian courts could impose additional requirements.

Bremner cautioned that the case could establish a troubling precedent for other defendants facing capital murder charges.

“There’s potential for somebody to look at that and say, ‘Well, I guess I could do that too and flee the death penalty that’s on the table.’ And the answer is yes, because obviously in this case, he jumped bail, had forged documents and made it all the way to Italy before he was caught,” Bremner said. “And he’s not going to face the death penalty, where it clearly was on the table, or should have been, under the law in Texas.”

Gilley will have another hearing at the Turin Court of Appeal on Oct. 7.