BIARRITZ, France — On Wednesday evening, a dramatic cliff collapse near the iconic lighthouse in Biarritz, a popular seaside town on France’s southwestern Atlantic coast, resulted in the death of one diver, with another still unaccounted for, according to local officials.

The incident occurred at approximately 8:20 p.m. while three divers were positioned at the cliff’s base, as detailed in a statement released by Biarritz City Hall.

One of the divers managed to emerge without injury, and was promptly attended to by emergency responders.

Specialized rescue teams, including expert divers, are actively conducting a search operation for the two missing individuals.

The recovery teams have unfortunately located the body of one female diver.

Searches for the other diver resumed on Thursday.

Officials have banned public access, swimming and boating within 300 meters (985 feet) of the cliff because of the risk of further collapse.

Biarritz is a tourist destination known for its rugged cliffs, beaches and status as one of Europe’s premier surfing spots.

On Monday, California initiated legal proceedings against the Trump administration following the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to bring the state’s vehicle emissions waivers under the scrutiny of Congress. This move marks the beginning of a legal confrontation that may ultimately decide California’s enduring authority over the U.S. automotive industry.

The legal challenge, spearheaded by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, takes aim at the EPA’s effort to forward four emissions waivers from the state to Congress, invoking the Congressional Review Act—an instrument permitting legislative bodies to nullify specific federal regulations.

When approached for comments on the lawsuit, the EPA refrained from offering any statements.

In an earlier announcement this month, the agency justified its actions by emphasizing its dedication to enhancing consumer options and maintaining vehicle affordability nationwide, while adhering to what it interprets as the correct legal framework.

California argues the move threatens its authority under the Clean Air Act to impose vehicle emissions standards stricter than federal requirements. The state also contends that other states have adopted California’s emissions standards over the years, extending its influence beyond its borders.

At issue is the EPA’s decision earlier this month to submit four California waivers covering vehicle emissions and lawn and garden equipment to Congress for review under the Congressional Review Act.

California argues the EPA is improperly attempting to transform agency decisions that have historically been treated as waivers into regulations that Congress can overturn.

“No agency has the power to wave a magic wand and transform an action that was finalized as an adjudicatory order into a rule, and certainly not without a public process in which the agency acknowledges and explains its change in position,” the state wrote in its lawsuit.

The legal fight marks the latest clash between California and the Trump administration over environmental policy and vehicle emissions regulations.

Last year, Trump and congressional Republicans used the Congressional Review Act to overturn California’s electric vehicle sales mandates and diesel engine rules. California later challenged those actions in court.

The outcome of the latest lawsuit could have implications beyond California, potentially determining whether Congress can more easily unwind environmental policies through the Congressional Review Act and whether California can continue using federal waivers to shape emissions standards adopted by other states.

The Alliance for Automotive Innovation did not immediately respond to News Media’s request for comment.

Longtime Fox News staple Janice Dean is stepping down from her role on Fox & Friends following a significant deterioration in her multiple sclerosis symptoms, which she confirmed in a statement.

Dean, 56, made the sudden announcement in an emotional message to X on Thursday.

“In the end, my condition has advanced to such a degree that continuing in this position is no longer feasible, and my healthcare providers concurred that prioritizing my health by leaving was essential,” she explained in a video message.

Dean has been a fixture on Fox & Friends for over 20 years.

She became part of the network in 2004, and the following year, she was diagnosed with the challenging autoimmune disease she has openly spoken about before.

“For many years, I managed to cope with early starts, long hours standing, and the pressures of live TV,” she shared with her audience on Thursday.

Dean reminded how those who struggle with the disease ‘may look fine, but our immune system is attacking the brain, spinal cord, and sometimes, the optic nerve.’

‘You’re left with permanent scars,’ she said. ‘Thankfully I was diagnosed early.’

Despite ‘different therapies over the past two decades,’ Dean’s systems recently progressed, she said.

The weather anchor explained how a ‘lack of sleep and stress’ contributed to her symptoms.

‘I was increasingly feeling the effects of my limitations.’

Her symptoms became so pronounced that her ‘doctors agreed that stepping away was necessary,’ she said. 

‘There’s so many things I’ll miss.’

Dean recalled ‘friends’ and ‘places’ she’s gotten to visit over the years.   

‘The storms I covered. And the millions of viewers who have invited me into their homes every morning. Through the good times and the bad, the dark clouds and sunshine, you’ve always been there for me.’

She framed her exit as a ‘mostly sunny goodbye.’

‘I know how lucky I was, and that’s why it’s so hard to say the words,’ Dean said, choking up.

‘For every goodbye, it’s always the next hello. And maybe the chance to meet again one day in a different place at a different time.’

She told viewers to ‘take good care’ to close, while becoming increasingly emotional.

‘Be well, and God bless you all.’

‘Thank you,’ she said.

The Daily Mail has approached Fox News for comment.

Dean told viewers she was stepping away from work and social media ‘for a bit’ in a post to Facebook published on November 12. 

‘My bosses at Fox have been kind and understanding, and I feel blessed to be able to take a break to be with my family,’ Dean wrote at the time. 

A then-recent trip to Rome with husband Sean Newman, a retired New York firefighter, was framed as a ‘good place to start healing spiritually.’ The two share two sons, Matthew and Theodore.

‘And now I have to get back to feeling healthy and strong,’ Dean told followers. She did not reveal her specific health issues at the time.

Dean previously wrote about her struggles with MS in her book, Mostly Sunny: How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days. 

She recalled to People in a 2024 interview how longtime colleague Neil Cavuto helped her through her diagnosis. Cavuto was diagnosed in 1997 and remains on air.  

‘I had him to say, “You’re gonna be okay,”‘ Dean remembered.

He’s all set for the big day.

Ed Kelce recently expressed his enthusiasm for the impending nuptials between his son, Travis Kelce, and pop superstar Taylor Swift. In a lively interview, Kelce shared his sentiments about the upcoming wedding.

“She truly is a sweetheart, the quintessential girl next door,” the 74-year-old proudly stated to Fox 29 Philadelphia on Wednesday, referring to Swift.

He also drew a parallel between the Grammy-winning artist and Jason Kelce’s wife, Kylie, mentioning that Swift shares similar qualities with his eldest son’s spouse.

Jason, now 38, and Kylie, 34, celebrated their marriage in Philadelphia back in April 2018.

Swift and Travis, for their part, are set to wed in New York City over the July 3 weekend after nearly three years together.

We hear the nuptials will take place at the Big Apple’s iconic Madison Square Garden arena.

The star-studded ceremony will require street closures around MSG, according to the permit filed by Winick Productions.

A source told The Post that trucks will most likely use 33rd St. to load and unload.

Additionally, another insider told Page Six some of Travis’ teammates have made reservations at the Marriott Marquis in Midtown around the wedding date.

The couple got engaged in August 2025, with Kelce getting down on one knee after his partner made her podcast debut on his and Jason’s “New Heights” show.

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨,” the bride-to-be told her Instagram followers post-engagement.

Her and Travis’ family members have primarily remained tight-lipped about the high-profile wedding.

Kylie even ranted that people needed to “quit asking” her about her brother-in-law walking down the aisle.

“Nobody’s f–king telling you anything,” the “Not Gonna Lie” host told podcast listeners in April.

When she was grilled on the topic by Savannah Guthrie during a January “Today” show appearance, Kylie simply said she was “excited to celebrate.”

A seasoned criminal profiler has expressed skepticism regarding the authenticity of ransom notes linked to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance. He described them to News Media as seemingly authored by two distinct personalities—a detached “psychopath” and someone contrastingly “emotional.”

In an interview, criminal profiler John Kelly shared his doubts, stating, “To sum it up, I don’t think these notes are genuine. The first note focuses solely on money… However, the second note portrays a completely different personality.”

Kelly highlighted the lack of compassion evident in the abduction, noting the involvement of a masked assailant armed with a gun who stormed into Guthrie’s home. Her sudden removal from her bed in the early hours left a trail of blood at her doorstep.

“In most cases, such individuals are quite ruthless. They wouldn’t hesitate to pull an elderly woman out of bed with force, leaving her bleeding. Their priority is to escape the scene rapidly,” Kelly observed. “Condolences wouldn’t be their concern.”

Excerpts from the first note include a demand for millions of dollars’ worth of Bitcoin, gave a deadline for payment and were said to include crime scene details that were not widely known at the time it was sent to local media. It did not include proof of life.

Details about the second note — or at least versions of it sent to different media outlets — have been made public this week.

It included claims that Guthrie had died inadvertently after her abduction, a federal law enforcement source close to the case told Fox News on Monday. And it said she was “buried with nature.”

“She’s not with us anymore, was not ‘intentional,'” Kelly said. “Now I see an emotional word: ‘intentional.'”

And that doesn’t fit the profile that Kelly sees, he said.

“This is a person to me that wouldn’t know a feeling if they tripped over one,” he told News Media.

In taking Guthrie, the abductor or abductors “objectified her,” Kelly said.

“That’s very different than what I’m seeing in the few words that I was able to see…in the ransom note saying that it wasn’t intentional and she’s buried with nature now,” Kelly explained. “Like that should give us some comfort after that whole horrific trial of removing Nancy and freaking torturing her emotionally right out of that house.“

Authorities haven’t publicly confirmed or ruled out the authenticity of the demands.

Early on, they appear to have taken them seriously, with Heith Janke, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s Phoenix field office, sitting down with Guthrie’s adult children to record a video response to the first note.

The 84-year-old Guthrie’s daughter, “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, has also said publicly that she believes at least two of the notes were real.

“There are a lot of different notes, I think, that came, and I think most of them — it’s my understanding — are not real, and I didn’t see them,” she told colleague Hoda Kotb in a March interview. “…But I believe the two notes that we received, that we responded to, I tend to believe those are real.”

Kelly, a veteran profiler and psychoanalyst who has interviewed a number of serial killers, said he believes the kidnapper is a “very cruel person” without remorse or guilt and likely a “psychopath.”

“I was watching his eyes on the video that we could get to see, I mean, I wasn’t seeing normal blinking taking place. I wasn’t seeing anxiety,” Kelly said. “Psychopaths are like that — they can be as cool as cucumbers. They don’t feel a whole lot of fear…They just go about their business.“

Anyone with information on Guthrie’s case is asked to dial 1-800-CALL-FBI. There is a combined reward of more than $1.2 million for information that cracks the case.

Tips can be provided anonymously to Tucson’s Crime Stoppers affiliate, 88-Crime, at 1-520-882-7463.

New insights have emerged about the sudden disappearance of an Air Force general linked to UFO research. They suggest he was trying to withdraw from the Pentagon’s clandestine projects shortly before he went missing.

According to freshly uncovered police reports from New Mexico, retired Major General William Neil McCasland was in the process of resigning from several high-profile advisory roles at government-affiliated research labs across the country. This came to light just before he vanished on February 27.

The new clues were released in a Freedom of Information Act request by Sara Bondink, a self-proclaimed historical researcher and author who has been following the McCasland investigation, revealing previously unseen details about the case.

Details gleaned from a March 3 discussion reveal the communication between McCasland’s wife, Susan Wilkerson, and a law enforcement officer from the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s GHOST Unit. This specialized unit typically deals with anti-gang and human trafficking cases.

Despite Wilkerson’s earlier public statements suggesting her husband no longer held top-secret clearances from the US government, it surfaced during the interview that he remained involved with at least four organizations entrenched in national defense intelligence.

Wilkerson conveyed to authorities her husband’s urgent need to cut ties with several, if not all, covert projects. She was concerned that at 68, McCasland was experiencing a significant decline in mental health, which may have prompted his decision.

All of the groups McCasland was reportedly connected to, including Sandia National Laboratories, Riverside Research, the Kirtland Partnership and a University Affiliated Research Center, are involved in high-level research for the Department of War, engaging in projects focused on national security and advanced technology.

McCasland’s disappearance has been at the heart of the so-called missing scientist investigation, with the general’s career appearing to overlap with several NASA scientists, nuclear lab workers and military personnel who either died or vanished without a trace in recent years.

McCasland was last seen leaving his New Mexico home without his phone, wearable devices or glasses less than two months ago. 

He was only carrying a pistol, and his wife told 911 dispatchers that it appeared he was trying ‘not to be found.’

Just days before he vanished, according to the police report, McCasland flew by himself to Washington DC to officially resign from Riverside Research.

The nonprofit provides scientific research, engineering and advisory services on advanced technology projects through contracts with the Pentagon, US intelligence community and the Air Force, which are worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Authorities wrote in their report: ‘Upon returning to New Mexico, Neil told Susan that he resigned from the board of Riverside Research because he could not keep up, mentally, with the conversation.’

He was still a paid consultant for Sandia National Laboratories, a major US government-owned research lab that develops advanced technology for national security, including nuclear weapons, before his disappearance.

Sandia primarily works under the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and supports the Air Force research and development work at multiple facilities, including Kirtland Air Force Base.

McCasland was also deeply tied to Kirtland through his work with the Air Force Research Lab. 

He had been in charge of AFRL’s Phillips Research Site at Kirtland before becoming the research unit’s commanding officer from 2011 to 2013.

The veteran officer continued to maintain a key role with the New Mexico base even after retiring, becoming a member of the Kirtland Partnership, a nonprofit working to protect and expand the military research facility and nuclear weapons lab.

Wilkerson confirmed previously released bodycam recordings, which revealed an anonymous caller to police who claimed General McCasland had a concerning meeting with the Kirtland Partnership and members of the US Space Force on February 26, just hours before he disappeared. 

The unidentified female witness who claimed she was at the dinner with McCasland told police: ‘I was shocked this morning when I saw the alert because what I noticed Thursday evening [February 26] is that he wasn’t his usual self. 

‘[McCasland] was kind of spacey and quiet and you know that that happens with people.’ 

‘He was the head of Air Force Research Lab to the point the man’s names are in the UFO documents that are fixed to be released,’ the witness claimed during a phone call with police, obtained by the Law&Crime Network.

‘He’s in that depth, so he has a very high security clearance.’

According to the interview with Wilkerson, the former general had also attempted with resign from his position with a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC) tied to an unnamed school.

UARCs are special, long-term research partnerships between a university and the Pentagon that allow the military to get independent help on advanced science and technology projects that universities are uniquely skilled at providing.

The police report noted that McCasland was attempting to quit his role with UARC due to the same fears of mental decline, however, ‘the leadership was trying to convince him otherwise.’

The day before his disappearance, McCasland was seen alert and aware as he exited a local sporting goods store in New Mexico with a mysterious parcel and what appeared to be a portable first aid kit.

Despite his wife’s claims of potential mental decline, government officials have revealed that McCasland was still being looked at as a key witness in the ongoing effort to declassify decades-old secrets related to UFOs and extraterrestrials.

In early May, Air Force veteran and UFO whistleblower David Grusch specifically named McCasland as one of the officers who had been in charge of classified programs related to non-human craft recovery and reverse-engineering.

Grusch alleged that the general had not been cooperative with recent efforts by lawmakers looking to interview him over his knowledge of America’s suspected contact with extraterrestrials.

The White House has tasked the FBI with investigating McCasland’s mysterious disappearance and the disappearances of several other individuals tied to US nuclear secrets in the New Mexico area over the last year.

So far, only one person has been found. The remains of Los Alamos National Lab worker Melissa Casias were discovered in a New Mexico park on May 28.

There has been no sign of McCasland since he vanished four months ago. He reportedly only took a pair of boots and his .38-caliber revolver with him after changing into a set of clothes Wilkerson did not know he owned.

CHICAGO (WLS) — This Thursday’s SoapChat comes with revelations simmering and secrets unfolding.

Expect suspense as Carly gears up for a possible rescue mission. Meanwhile, Danny is rocked by an unforeseen truth regarding Rocco and Jason. Over in France, Anna is working on her own secretive plans while Cullum’s threat is intensifying by the moment.

In a desperate bid to shield Rocco, Britt finds herself in peril as her health takes a worrying downturn.

Cassius has been working discreetly, possibly sending her much-needed medication. As complications ensue, the true extent of Cullum’s malevolent intentions gradually comes to light, revealing a plot that now includes Carly.

The teen drama reaches a pivotal moment when Charlotte divulges to Danny that Rocco was the one who pulled the trigger against Cullum, acting in a desperate attempt to save Jason.

Charlotte felt Danny deserved to know the truth, but once she told him, she immediately realized the damage it could cause.

Danny was stunned, and very upset, who knows what he will do next when he goes to talk to Alexis!

Carly finally tells Lucas on everything that’s been happening behind the scenes, including that Josslyn is being held captive and that Valentin had been secretly hiding at her house.

Carly admitted just how dangerous the situation has become and was desperate to launch a rescue mission immediately. They both agree to give Valentin and the W-S-B a little more time before taking matters into their own hands.

At the Metro Court pool and overseas in France, Anna is back!

We meet her doctor and watch as she appeared to make huge progress, but we viewers quickly learned she was faking! She successfully got a call placed to Felicia, reassuring her friends and family that she sounded much better.

Emma was thrilled by the update and started discussing going to France.

The big question hanging over the story: Is Anna really improving, or is she manipulating her doctors so she can escape and continue investigating on her own?

General Hospital airs weekdays at 2 p.m. on ABC7.