A Philadelphia woman’s artistic education became unexpectedly valuable during a terrifying incident involving a masked assailant.

Jameka Wilson, a 25-year-old actress from Philadelphia, found herself in a nightmarish scenario when a man wearing what authorities identified as a “Chucky” doll mask pursued her. The chase unfolded as Wilson was en route to an early morning fitness class on Wednesday, August 12th. With the man following her for only a few moments, Wilson made a split-second decision to pivot and confront him, believing it to be the safest choice.

“The surprise on his face was evident when I turned around,” Wilson recounted during an interview. “He appeared confused, tilting his head side to side as if reconsidering his plan of action.”

“In terms of defense, what he did was essentially make himself vulnerable to various attack strategies I could employ,” she explained.

That’s when Wilson decided to kick her attacker, “boom, right into the center of the chest.”

Wilson credits her ability to defend herself and read her attacker to her art school education in stage combat.

“My alma mater was the University of the Arts, and I trained with fight masters there for stage combat,” said Wilson. “The whole goal is to understand what the consequences of contact and violence are and hopefully keep your scene partner safe.”

“I feel like these experiences helped me fight off the attacker, as crazy as that might sound,” she said.

Wilson said she first saw the masked man as he approached another woman across the street who was “absorbed” in her phone. She described seeing the man accelerate toward the woman, “closing distance really quickly.”

“I started to wave my arms and started yelling, ‘Hey, there’s someone behind you,'” Wilson told News Media. “And at that point she heard me, she saw me, and then she started to run away.”

The masked man eventually turned his focus toward Wilson, chasing her until she turned around to fight.

“As for intent, I’m not really sure what exactly it was. I don’t know if he even knows,” Wilson said.

Police have identified 22-year-old Zymire Hughes as the masked suspect. An arrest warrant is active, and police believe Hughes may have fled Pennsylvania.

Hughes was also seen that morning near City Hall and asked one woman if she was “ready to die” while chasing others, police told FOX 29. Police said the masked man chased a 40-year-old woman and made threatening comments while holding his hand behind his back.

Philadelphia Police Capt. Jason Smith said, “He was able to accost a good many of people, most of which haven’t come forward yet.”

Hughes was seen on surveillance cameras running up to several people, and was refused service at a Dunkin’ because of his mask. He left the restaurant after showing erratic behavior.

Tragedy struck in Madisonville, Kentucky, when a 10-month-old girl lost her life after being left in her grandmother’s scorching hot vehicle for hours. The incident occurred outside the medical clinic where the grandmother worked, according to police statements.

The infant, named Scottie Gwyn Crowell, was discovered still secured in her car seat by her grandmother, Dr. Stacey Fazenbaker, at the Owensboro Health Multicare facility on August 13. Authorities revealed that the baby had been in the vehicle for nearly eight hours, a situation arising after her grandmother was supposed to take her to daycare that morning.

On that fateful day, temperatures soared to 95 degrees Fahrenheit outside, with the interior of the car climbing to a stifling 115 degrees, as reported by WEHT.

The day began with 61-year-old Fazenbaker volunteering to drive her granddaughter to daycare. However, when the baby’s father arrived at the daycare around 4 p.m., staff informed him Scottie had never been dropped off, according to the Daily Mail.

The family was alerted to the heartbreaking oversight when they realized Fazenbaker had driven straight to work, inadvertently leaving the baby girl in the car.

Horrified, Fazenbaker “ran outside with some co-workers to get the child. But it was far too late by then,” Madisonville Police Major Jason McKnight told reporters.

“The grandmother had already got the child, and so the officers tried some lifesaving measures, but unfortunately it was too late for that.”

No charges have been filed as police continue to probe the tragedy.

Fazenbaker was tested for drugs and alcohol, but police don’t anticipate positive results.

“As the picture becomes clearer on how this could have possibly happened, there is a possibility charges are sought before the grand jury convenes,” McKnight said.

An autopsy will determine Scottie’s official cause of death.

Fazenbaker had just moved to Madisonville a year ago to be close to her daughter Sydni Crowell, 33, herself a local OB-GYN,  the Daily Mail reported.

“We love you so much, our sweet baby girl,” Sydni’s sister Emmy Fazenbaker, a sports reporter for Middle Tennessee State University, posted in tribute on Facebook.

The Madisonville Police Department did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for additional information.

Scottie, her parents’ second child, was born on Sept. 20, 2025, via in vitro fertilization, according to the outlet.

Crowell began working at Baptist Health Deaconess in Madison in February 2025 after completing her residency at Mercy Hospital in St Louis.

NEW YORK — “Deciding to compete in the 22nd season of ‘Project Runway’ was a big question mark for me,” shares Bi Pham, a contestant grappling with self-doubt.

“During my school years, I spent a lot of time in speech therapy because I struggled with stuttering. Speaking in public or even answering phone calls was terrifying for me.”

Interestingly, high school wasn’t just where Pham confronted public speaking fears; it was also where he found his fashion passion. Opting to join a fashion design course during his free period turned out to be life-changing.

“I fell in love instantly, and it broadened my perspective,” Pham recalls. It was in this environment that a fellow student introduced him to “Project Runway,” a show that would captivate him deeply.

“I quickly became a dedicated fan, watching with friends and sketching along with the challenges,” he shared. “The show taught me the intricacies of critiquing fashion.”

When the time came to pick a career path at the end of high school, Pham, the first-born son of Vietnamese immigrants, went with his parents’ advice and decided to pursue a career in dentistry.

But when the time came to apply to dental schools, Pham realized, “You only have one life to live”.

Pham moved from Oregon to New York where he studied at FIT before landing a job at Dior. Later, he opened and sold his own business before finally deciding to apply to the 22nd season of “Project Runway.”

“Growing up it was hard, being gay, Vietnamese, first born, catholic and everything. I found humor is a way to make life easier. I find that if I have fun on the show then at the end of the day, no matter what happened to me on the show, I had a good time. That was my goal. And I feel like if I have fun, I’m infecting other designers to have fun.”

While Pham provides comic relief during many moments throughout the show, he hopes someone watching him will draw inspiration from his story and not let their fears hold them back from going after their passion.

“To be on camera is quite daunting. It’s a fear that I am trying to overcome and maybe help someone out there who has the same speech impediment as me. You can do this.”

Project Runway airs Thursdays on Freeform and streams shortly after on Hulu and Disney+, followed by weekly airings.

Disney is the parent company of ABC Localish and this station.

In a startling discovery, human remains have surfaced in Nevada’s iconic Lake Mead, following a significant decline in water levels that has set new records this month.

Las Vegas resident Dianelis Molina Cruz and her friends made the chilling find on August 16 along the shoreline of Boulder Beach, a popular spot within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, roughly 30 miles from the Vegas Strip.

According to reports, a young girl, daughter of a friend of Cruz, was playing in the shallow water when she stumbled upon a human lower jawbone, surprisingly intact with teeth and dental fillings.

Shortly thereafter, additional bones emerged along the shrinking shoreline. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has confirmed in a public statement that these remains are from a ‘non-criminal, deceased individual,’ with ongoing examinations to learn more.

The duration that these remains have been lying submerged in Lake Mead remains a mystery, as does the potential involvement in any unlawful activities. The Clark County Coroner’s Office is actively working to identify the body.

Known as the largest reservoir in the United States, Lake Mead was created by the construction of the Hoover Dam, stationed on the Colorado River and serving as a critical resource between Nevada and Arizona.

While it has been providing drinking water, household plumbing and hydroelectric power to millions in the Southwest for decades, the lake has also been in severe decline and now holds only a quarter of the water it used to 40 years ago.

As the water dries up due to severe drought and overuse, more and more bodies have been discovered in recent years – including murder victims. 

As of Wednesday, Lake Mead’s surface elevation was just under 1,040 feet above sea level, meaning the crucial reservoir is around 180 feet lower than it should be when the lake is completely full.

The last time Lake Mead was near its full capacity of 1,220 feet was around the year 2000. It has been steadily dropping over the last three decades due to heavy use in the Southwest, severe drought and lack of snow melting at its source in the Rocky Mountains.

This has exposed large portions of local mountains and shorelines which used to be completely submerged by the lake since it was formed in the 1930s. 

Mario Lecano, who picked up the jawbone, told KVVU-TV that he was chasing his daughter into the water because she did not have a life jacket on at the time.

‘As soon as I grabbed her, I saw down by her legs that there was, what appears to be, some bones and some teeth,’ Lecano revealed.  

Beachgoer Noel De Leon told 8 News Now: ‘We noticed that it’s very low. The water looks very low compared to where it should be. As the water goes down, the skeletons come up.’

In 2022 alone, there were four separate incidents where human remains were uncovered by the declining water levels around Lake Mead.

In October of that year, a human skeleton was pulled from Callville Bay by the National Park Service, about 15 miles away from Boulder Beach.

Those remains were later determined to belong to drowning victim Donald Smith, who disappeared in Lake Mead in April 1974. The death was ruled an accident.

The bones of another drowning victim, 42-year-old Thomas Erndt, were discovered by paddleboarders in Callville Bay in May 2022, two decades after the man died.

However, there have also been more disturbing cases involving other remains recovered from the shrinking lake, including a man who was shot to death and then placed inside a barrel in Lake Mead’s Hemenway Harbor on May 1, 2022.

The murder victim has never been identified, but Las Vegas detectives believe he was killed in the mid-1970s or early 1980s.

Speaking to KSNV at the time of the discovery, Geoff Schumacher, vice president of the Mob Museum, said: ‘When you look at the way the person was killed, and when you think about how the body was disposed of, all of these things kind of tie together with some kind of a mob-related event.’

A fourth man, Las Vegas resident Claude Russell Pensinger, was also discovered in the lake in August 2022, but his cause of death could not be determined. Pensinger had disappeared during a fishing trip on July 14, 1998.

The US Bureau of Reclamation, which manages dams and reservoirs, has warned that Lake Mead’s current water levels sit just five feet from hitting the point where older turbines at Hoover Dam’s hydroelectric facility will be forced to shut down to avoid damage.

The power coming out of Lake Mead at Hoover Dam serves over one million people across Arizona, California and Nevada. It generates about four billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric power each year.

Once the drought conditions drop those levels below 950 feet, the entire facility, including the plant’s newer turbines, will have to shut down.

Lake Mead has been drying up due to several factors, including extreme drought conditions throughout the region.

The problem has been particularly dire near the Colorado River’s source in the Rocky Mountains, where very low snowpack totals have meant less frozen water melting into the river to fill it.

Law enforcement has unveiled the identity of a sinister figure suspected of causing panic among the women of Philadelphia while donning a macabre disguise.

Officials are now urging the public to remain vigilant, suggesting that the suspect may have slipped out of Pennsylvania.

The suspect, Zymire Hughes, aged 22, is currently wanted with an arrest warrant issued against him, according to a police announcement. Hughes is implicated in an incident where he allegedly wore a spine-chilling Halloween mask reminiscent of Chucky while attacking a female victim.

This startling event occurred last Wednesday when Hughes reportedly pursued and harassed the woman.

He allegedly yelled at a woman asking her if she was “ready to die” while chasing others, police told FOX 29.

Surveillance cameras allegedly show Hughes running up to people in the city. A Dunkin’ Donuts in the city refused him service because he was wearing the mask.

After terrorizing several people, police say, he allegedly came face-to-face with a woman who was ready to fight back, News Media learned.

A woman trained in combat, Jameka Wilson, was able to fight Hughes when he reportedly threatened her.

“He was not guarding his midsection, so she kicked him hard in the chest. He stumbled and ran,” she said.

Police say Hughes has connections to California and Nevada.

They describe him as a Black male with medium complexion, 5-foot-8, thin build, wearing a white Chucky-style Halloween mask with black hair, and a black/blue plaid backpack.

Houston, we urgently need to address our burgeoning debt crisis.

The United States is grappling with an extraordinary $40 trillion debt, a figure so astronomical it defies easy comprehension. To put this staggering amount into perspective, consider this analogy.

If you were to stack $1 bills and keep going until you hit $40 trillion, the pile would extend to the moon and back nearly six times.

In terms of value, $40 trillion surpasses the total worth of all the gold ever mined throughout human history.

This immense sum is equivalent to the combined economic output of some of the world’s largest nations: China, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, India, and France.

And your share is $117,000.

That’s more than six-figures for every man, woman, child and baby in America.

It would take the average American worker, earning a salary of $69,770, more than 573 million years to make that much money.

If America’s entire active labor force of 168 million each gave every dollar they earned to repay the US debt, it would take 41 months to balance the books.

Which presidents are to blame for America’s national debt?

The US government debt has ballooned since the Great Recession hit in 2008 — quadrupling from $10 trillion when President Barack Obama was elected, to $40.05 trillion in 2026.

Every president since Ronald Reagan — and his successful efforts to bankrupt the Soviet Union through deficit spending — has ballooned the debt. It hit $1 trillion for the first time early in his administration — and then ballooned to $2.7 trillion, a 189% rise.

Here’s how much the debt went up under each president.

• Ronald Reagan: $1.76 trillion — 189% increase

Currently, US debt stands at 123.5% of GDP, higher than in 1945 when the debt-to-GDP ratio swelled to 116% at the end of the Second World War.

Franklin D Roosevelt oversaw the greatest addition to the US debt in percentage terms of any US President, as his New Deal and war spending swelled the deficit by 70 percentage points.

US National Debt as a percentage of GDP dropped after World War II, falling to a low of 31% in 1980 at the start of President Ronald Reagan’s presidency.

In comparison to other countries, the $40.05 trillion figure is truly monumental. It’s larger than the combined GDP of every country in the world except for the US and China

“Forty trillion dollars of debt doesn’t exist solely on the government’s ledgers; ​it is felt throughout the economy and finds its way to the pocketbooks of people one way or another,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible ⁠Federal Budget, in a statement.

“The more we borrow, the more we exacerbate inflation, squeeze out other priorities in the budget, and leave ourselves vulnerable to emergencies at home and turmoil abroad,” she added, following the release of the Treasury data.

With Post wires.

A dire warning about the future of humanity looms less than three months from now, based on a prediction made by scientists over 60 years ago.

In 1960, Austrian physicist Heinz von Foerster, along with his team, published research in the journal Science, marking November 13, 2026, as humanity’s ‘Doomsday.’

This prediction was derived from analyzing 24 estimates of global population growth over nearly two millennia, which showed that the rate of increase was accelerating.

Historically, it took centuries for Earth’s population to double, but each subsequent doubling took progressively less time. 

Von Foerster concluded that if this trend continued unchecked, the interval between population doublings could ultimately vanish.

That meant the population would then surge toward infinity, an impossible mathematical endpoint he called ‘Doomsday.’ 

It did not mean the world would literally end, but marked the point at which extending the historical trend produced a result that could not exist in reality.

‘Our great-great-grandchildren will not starve to death,’ von Foerster wrote. ‘They will be squeezed to death.’ 

However, demographers do not consider the prediction credible because global population growth has slowed dramatically since the 1960s, breaking the trend that the equation assumed would continue. 

The paper, titled Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, AD 2026, states: ‘At this date human population will approach infinity if it grows as it has in the last two millennia.’

When it was published in 1960, just over three billion people lived on Earth. Today, that figure stands at approximately 8.2 billion, an increase of more than five billion. 

However, the annual global population growth rate has fallen from a peak of roughly 2.2 percent in 1963 to about 0.84 percent in 2026, a decline of approximately 62 percent, according to a US Census Bureau 2026 estimate. 

At the 1960s rate, the population would double about every 32 years. At today’s rate, doubling would take roughly 83 years. 

However, von Foerste’s prediction has resurfaced as the deadline is near. 

To test their theory, the researchers applied it to the entire human population, which they considered the best long-term example of a group whose members communicate and work together.

They collected 24 independent estimates of the world’s population spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the time of Christ to 1958. 

Using global totals helped reduce distortions caused by migration, wars or other changes affecting individual regions.

The team removed estimates that appeared to have been copied from the same sources and then used a statistical method to find the curve that most closely matched the remaining data.

They reported that the model followed the historical population figures with a margin of error of approximately seven percent.

When the curve was extended into the future, however, it pointed to late 2026 as the moment the population would theoretically reach infinity.

The calculation carried an uncertainty of about five and a half years, meaning the widely publicized November 13 date was far less precise than it appeared.

The researchers argued that their projection was still noteworthy because it required extending the historical trend only slightly beyond the available data.

They claimed Charlemagne could have used the same model to predict the endpoint within 300 years, while Queen Elizabeth I could have come within 110 years and Napoleon within 30.

However, running the equation backward exposed its limitations. It placed a hypothetical first human approximately 200 billion years ago, far earlier than the universe itself.

The authors acknowledged that such results were impossible and that the model became unreliable when stretched too far.

In other words, the equation matched much of the historical population data surprisingly well, but its ‘Doomsday’ represented the point where the mathematics broke down, not a literal prediction that the world would end.

In a recent legal twist, Harvard University emerged victorious after a local judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s lawsuit alleging antisemitism on campus. The court determined that prior warnings about campus incidents did not establish a consistent pattern of civil rights infractions. Despite the ruling, Justice Department officials have flatly disagreed and are contemplating an appeal to challenge the decision.

The lawsuit stems from actions by the Trump administration, which had previously halted over $2 billion in grants and contracts in response to Harvard’s refusal to align with federal mandates concerning antisemitism. According to Reuters, the dispute highlights ongoing tensions between federal directives and institutional autonomy in higher education.

Adding another layer to the contentious discourse, federal authorities are scrutinizing an anti-Israel nonprofit, linked to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Allegations suggest that donor contributions have been directed to a sanctioned Palestinian organization. Backed by Bassema Yousef, an ally of Mamdani, the U.K.-based group, known as “PFF,” reportedly holds a staggering $100 million. The Department of Homeland Security is probing potential connections to Al-Haq, although no criminal charges have yet been substantiated.

Feds are linked to Big Apple Mayor Zohran Mamdani over claims donor cash was funneled to a sanctioned Palestinian group. The U.K.-based “PFF”—backed by Mamdani ally Bassema Yousef—commands a mega $100M war chest. Homeland Security is investigating potential ties to Al-Haq, though no criminal wrongdoing is proven.

A Bronx man faces hate crime charges after terrifying worshipers during Friday Shabbat services at Manhattan’s historic Central Synagogue. Police say 46-year-old Larry Montes struck a congregant, smashed property, then spat on and headbutted a security officer before being tackled by an off-duty cop. Top city officials condemned the violent outburst as the suspect remains in custody.

: State Department officials claim findings from UNICEF completely that Israel engineered a starvation campaign in Gaza. Officials point to data showing acute child malnutrition rates remained well below required famine thresholds. The U.S. government maintains the findings debunk propaganda claims, emphasizing that extensive humanitarian food aid and vaccines were successfully delivered throughout the conflict.

: Christian Zionists are flooding the West Bank to over Israeli settlements. Evangelical outfit The Israel Guys is busing thousands of global volunteers into contested territories to pick crops, open tourist hubs, and counter hostile media reports. They claim accusations of settler violence are fake news designed to demonize local Jewish communities.

: Loay Alshareef, an Arab Muslim peace advocate and senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, writes that the Dead Sea Scrolls provide of the Jewish people’s ancient bond to Israel. Dated over 2,000 years ago, these manuscripts shatter claims that Jewish connection to the land is a modern invention, offering a factual foundation for peace and reconciliation.

“The new data shows that the allegations of famine in Gaza were pure hysteria. While certain small pockets of hunger occurred in Gaza, we now know this can only have been an issue of distribution. Once again, international organizations removed Hamas and their share of the blame for Gaza’s suffering from the conversation, stoking the anti-Israel narrative.” – Andrew Fox, a senior fellow at the Henry Jackson Society.

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