Prince Harry has adopted a striking new role: master of grief.

It is a decidedly bleak title.

In his latest commercial project, Harry has partnered with MasterClass on an online lesson called Redefining Grief: Building Resilience Through Loss.

The promise of resilience may sound surprising coming from a prince who has spent the past six years presenting himself as the injured party.

The financial terms are also notable. Instructors for the online education platform can reportedly receive at least $100,000 upfront, along with a further 30 percent of the subscription revenue generated by an episode.

Harry is joined in the MasterClass by Dr Mary-Frances O’Connor, a specialist in grief.

‘I’d encourage everyone to watch it before casting any judgement,’ a source close to the prince told the Mail.

Naturally, the message urges viewers to watch first. The project is, after all, another opportunity for Harry to turn his personal story into income.

But after everything Harry has already said and written, is there really much left to explain?

Harry remains both aggrieved and grieving. Even so, the source insists that the prince is now ‘speaking from the heart’.

There is also a practical backdrop to the new venture. The lucrative Netflix and Spotify agreements have ended, Harry has never held a conventional job, and Meghan’s efforts to build a content business have failed to make a lasting impact.

So the Sussexes return once again to their familiar territory: loss, disappointment and unresolved sorrow.

‘You would think I had the best help in the world. I’m a prince, for God’s sake,’ Harry says. ‘But I was still grieving and didn’t have any place to put those feelings.’

Yet a question remains: why should audiences seek guidance on grief from a 42-year-old man who, despite having every privilege and resource available to him, says he is still struggling to come to terms with his mother’s death 29 years later?

He is a husband and father of two who wrote in his memoir Spare about using drugs and alcohol to dull his pain.

The memoir also included the bizarre detail that he soothed his frostbitten ‘todger’ with his late mother’s favourite face cream.

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‘My penis,’ Harry wrote, ‘was oscillating between extremely sensitive and borderline traumatized.’

It is difficult to imagine a more fitting description of the audience left listening to this unending stream of intimate emotional disclosure.

It beggars belief that the execs at MasterClass think this is a viable offering. It feels more like an epic troll: Are you struggling with complicated grief? Have you been unable to metabolize the loss of a loved one after a sustained period of time?

Listen to Harry, who also admits here that he ‘slipped into depression’ after Megxit.

‘Being in Canada… within two or three days, I experienced an adrenaline crash, something that I’d never experienced before,’ he says.

‘It was as though I needed stress for my brain to function because I became useless around the house.’

It’s not hard to conjure. After all, what does a prince of the blood, who has never had to forge his own purpose — having been born with one — do once he’s thrown it all away?

Meghan seems to thrive in chaos, unperturbed as she burns down family bridges, moves cities and countries and commercial ventures.

Harry, it seems, just wants stability. The safety he felt in childhood, before Diana died.

If only he had a sense of the sacred versus the profane. If only he understood that the more he speaks about his mother’s death, for money, the more — in my opinion — he cheapens her legacy and his own grief.

It really does seem that this is all Harry has going on for himself: perseverating publicly about his mother’s death, reminding us that he is special because he is her son.

That William also lost his mother doesn’t seem to figure here.

But it makes sense, if we consider Harry’s abject failure in the marketplace of ideas. Recall his reported pitch to Spotify, a podcast in which he would interview such figures as Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Mark Zuckerberg about their childhood traumas.

Spotify passed.

And Harry’s inaugural appearance as a paid speaker at a corporate event, his first after Megxit, was at JP Morgan’s Alternative Investment Summit in Miami, for which he was estimated to have fetched up to $1 million.

That speech? It was about his late mother and his grief.

One million dollars for that. Imagine.

People with a lot less money and resources have suffered as much, if not more. It’s well past time for Harry to grow up.

Cait Conley, the Democrat seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Mike Lawler in New York’s Hudson Valley, says the most serious danger facing the United States is not a foreign enemy—but President Donald Trump and the forces inside the country supporting him.

Conley, an Army veteran and former senior national security official in the Biden administration, has repeatedly argued in campaign appearances that “the greatest threat to America’s future is coming within our own borders,” pointing to Trump and congressional Republicans.

“I never thought that I would feel like the greatest threat to our country and our future would come from within our border, and that is what we are seeing with this administration,” Conley said during an April 23 address to the Rockland County NAACP.

At a July Zoom fundraiser, she expanded on that warning, saying she believed America’s future was being threatened by “corruption” and “dysfunction,” as well as a president more interested in creating chaos, rewarding allies and enriching friends than protecting the nation and its national security.

Speaking at an AFL-CIO candidates’ night on Sept. 28, Conley also drew on her experience overseeing election security during the 2024 campaign.

She said the country’s greatest challenge had not come from foreign adversaries, but from the fallout of the “big lie” that the 2020 election was stolen—a reference to Trump’s repeated false claims that he lost that contest to Joe Biden because of fraud.

In a May 14 speech, Conley similarly said she never expected to see America’s values and future endangered from inside its own borders. She blamed the Trump administration and a Congress she said had placed political loyalty and ambition above the interests of the country and its people.

Lawler rejected Conley’s description of the threat facing the nation.

“Cait Conley led counterterrorism efforts on President Biden’s National Security Council, but believes that the greatest threat to our country isn’t Al Qaeda, ISIS, or even Russia or China. Instead, Conley thinks it’s her fellow American citizens who don’t vote the way she wants them to,” the Republican incumbent said.

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Lawler called the position “insane and disqualifying,” arguing that it showed Conley would be a “hyper-partisan hack” if elected to Congress.

Conley’s campaign pushed back, calling Lawler’s criticism a “new low” and defending her remarks as a warning about government decisions—not ordinary Americans.

“Career political operative Mike Lawler takes every chance he gets to lie about Cait Conley, but this is a new low,” campaign spokesperson Maddy Rosen said. She argued that Conley was referring to actions by Trump and members of his administration, including [Secretary of War] Pete Hegseth, that she said had weakened national security, including the reckless war with Iran that has claimed the lives of 21 American service members.

Rosen emphasized Conley’s military background, saying she spent 16 years in the Army under Republican and Democratic presidents, deployed six times to combat zones including Iraq and Afghanistan, and helped confront terrorist threats from Al Qaeda and ISIS.

“That Mike Lawler would even attempt to question the patriotism of someone who has always put country before any party or person is not only absurd but insulting to anyone who has ever worn the uniform,” Rosen said. She accused Lawler of being the true partisan in the race, arguing that he votes with Trump 100% of the time even when she said those positions hurt his constituents.

The sharp exchange comes as Lawler and Conley compete in one of the nation’s most closely watched House races. Their contest is unfolding in New York’s 17th Congressional District, a key swing district.

The district covers all or portions of Rockland, Putnam, Westchester and Dutchess counties.

Lawler, a former member of the New York State Assembly, is campaigning for a third term in the House.

Conley is a political newcomer who won a five-candidate Democratic primary to become Lawler’s challenger.

Members of Congress earn $174,000 annually and serve two-year terms.

Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said Oct. 8 that American and Israeli attacks had not compromised Iran’s internal security forces. He praised police personnel for standing firm during strikes carried out in February under Operations Epic Fury and Roaring Lion.

Khamenei made the comments on X as the U.S. Army issued a battlefield recognition guide designed to help American troops identify members of Iran’s conventional military, the Artesh. The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security estimated in June that the Artesh’s ground forces numbered about 350,000 personnel.

“The criminal US-Zionist enemy’s desperate efforts and malicious attacks on the pillars of social order and security, which are unparalleled throughout history, have not caused the courageous personnel of the Police Force to waver even a fraction in their mission,” Khamenei wrote.

He singled out Iran’s Law Enforcement Command, known as FARAJA, and accused the United States and Israel of deliberately attacking the organization responsible for preserving order inside the country.

“The focus and persistence of the criminal US-Zionist enemy in striking at the Police Force at its various levels, from its highest command levels down to those who are on the frontline, has only served to underscore the paramount importance of this institution more than ever,” he said.

Iran’s security structure is divided among three major forces. The Artesh handles conventional national defense, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps protects the Islamic Republic and extends its military influence, and FARAJA oversees policing and internal security.

Led by Brig. Gen. Ahmadreza Radan, FARAJA is tasked with maintaining public order, enforcing Iranian law and dealing with civil unrest.

The Iran Human Rights Monitor says FARAJA has grown into a central internal security institution. Its responsibilities include suppressing antigovernment protests, tracking political activity and enforcing the regime’s ideological rules.

The United States has sanctioned Radan over alleged human rights violations.

The Treasury Department designated him in September 2010, saying he was responsible for beatings, deaths and arbitrary detentions of demonstrators after Iran’s disputed 2009 presidential election.

Khamenei also urged Iran to expand FARAJA by adding more personnel, modern equipment and advanced technology, including artificial intelligence tools for analyzing data.

His statement followed the U.S. Army Training and Transformation Command’s publication of a “Know the Threat” identification guide on Sept. 24. Defense News reported on the document Oct. 9.

The guide features an Iranian special operations soldier and lists weapons U.S. troops may encounter, including AKM assault rifles, Iranian-made Masaf-2 rifles, German-designed G3 rifles, MG3 machine guns and RPG-7 rocket launchers.

Iran’s regular military, the Artesh, operates independently of the IRGC and its associated Basij militia. It is organized into four branches: ground forces, naval forces, the air force and the air defense force.

A June analysis from the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security put the Artesh ground forces at roughly 350,000 members, including about 220,000 conscripts.

The assessment concluded that the Artesh’s air, naval and air defense units had sustained serious losses during the initial stage of the U.S.-Israeli campaign. Its ground forces, however, remained largely intact because no ground invasion had taken place.

The Artesh is commanded by Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami, a former Iranian defense minister who assumed command in June 2025.

Aside from Khamenei, Hatami issued his own warning Oct. 6, claiming Iran’s adversaries faced “historic confusion” after failing to halt military production during the conflict.

Hatami also claimed that Iranian defense production continued despite American and Israeli attacks, saying the country’s military production lines had continued operating during the conflict.

The extent of Iran’s military recovery remains unclear. The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security assessed in June that the country’s conventional air, naval and air defense forces had suffered severe damage during the conflict.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, said Oct. 8 that Washington would not resume military strikes against Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, citing “productive discussions” between the two countries.

Democratic Socialists are calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to dismiss NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch after an ICE shooting in the Bronx left a suspected gang member wounded in front of his young son.

The demand puts Mamdani at odds with the left-wing coalition that helped carry him to City Hall. Activists accuse his administration of failing to confront President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

In a sharply worded statement, the Democratic Socialists of America called for Tisch’s immediate removal and urged the city to dismantle two specialized NYPD units.

“We demand that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and use every power available to him to drive ICE out of New York City,” the organization said.

The group also sought the abolition of the NYPD’s Strategic Response Group and Community Response Teams, intensifying the broader dispute over policing and federal immigration enforcement in New York.

Mamdani, however, has resisted the pressure. He has said he does not intend to replace Tisch, while promising a sweeping review of the shooting and the disorder that followed.

The confrontation erupted after federal immigration agents opened fire last Thursday while attempting to arrest 28-year-old Dominican national Oscar Belgal in Marble Hill, a Bronx neighborhood.

Belgal was struck in the neck as his five-year-old son remained in the back seat of the vehicle.

The boy was not injured, but the shooting sparked angry demonstrations and renewed scrutiny of what critics describe as ICE’s increasingly aggressive immigration operations.

Federal officials maintain that the agents opened fire because they believed their lives were in danger. According to authorities, Belgal allegedly accelerated his vehicle and hit two government cars while trying to flee.

Marcos Charles, who leads ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, defended the agents during a news conference in Washington.

“Our officers, using their training and believing that their life and the life of the partners and the general public were in danger, used their training and fired weapons,” Charles said.

Yet NYPD-released surveillance footage has raised fresh questions about how the confrontation unfolded.

In one video, two plainclothes immigration officers approach Belgal’s parked vehicle with their guns drawn.

One agent appears to strike the car’s windows with his firearm before the driver accelerates and leaves the camera’s field of view.

A second angle shows bystanders running for cover moments later as the vehicle crashes into a concrete barrier. Bullet holes are visible across the windshield and rear passenger window.

The footage does not show the actual shooting, leaving crucial questions about the agents’ use of force unanswered.

Tisch subsequently revealed that federal officers fired seven rounds during the confrontation.

The NYPD was not involved in the immigration operation itself, although city officers responded afterward and transported the wounded man to hospital.

Body-camera footage shows Belgal sitting on the pavement with his hands behind his back as federal agents attend to his injuries.

NYPD officers then lift him into a police SUV and race him to a nearby hospital.

‘Yo put pressure. Put pressure,’ one officer can be heard shouting as the vehicle reverses down the street.

The shooting has also ignited controversy over Belgal’s criminal history.

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Federal officials allege he was associated with a robbery crew that used mopeds and weapons, and say he was convicted of grand larceny last year, receiving five years’ probation.

He has also pleaded not guilty to narcotics-sale charges in a separate pending case.

But Democratic Socialist congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier has accused Tisch of attempting to demonize the wounded immigrant by publicly discussing his criminal record.

Chevalier demanded the commissioner’s resignation the day after the shooting, accusing her of shielding what she characterized as a ‘militia’ of armed ICE officers.

During an interview with left-wing streamer Hasan Piker, Chevalier argued that Belgal’s criminal history ‘doesn’t even matter’ when evaluating the shooting.

Her remarks intensified the growing divide between Mamdani and activists demanding a far more confrontational response to federal immigration enforcement.

Appearing on MS Now on Sunday, the mayor was pressed about the calls for Tisch’s removal.

He instead defended the NYPD’s limited involvement in the incident.

‘The NYPD was not at the scene when the incident took place, when ICE shot at Mr. Belgal and his 5-year-old son in the car,’ Mamdani said.

He explained that officers responded to a 911 call and transported Belgal to hospital.

‘What I will be doing with the police commissioner is a review of that entire 24 hour period,’ he added.

Mamdani also maintained that the Strategic Response Group had not participated in the shooting or the immediate police response, although he reiterated his intention to disband the unit.

The mayor had already told the New York Times on Friday that ‘there are no plans’ to change the NYPD’s leadership.

He nevertheless pledged to examine every aspect of the incident, including the police response to subsequent demonstrations and the use of privately owned parking lots to stage federal immigration operations.

Mamdani said his administration would consider ‘every action the city can take to protect New Yorkers from ICE’s terror.’

The mayor previously branded the shooting an ‘outrage,’ declaring: ‘There is no justification for what we have seen today.’

Meanwhile, Belgal remains in federal custody in Brooklyn, with his lawyers saying a bullet is still lodged in his body.

His attorney, Harold Solis, condemned the circumstances surrounding the shooting.

‘You’re not supposed to get shot in your car with your child sitting in the back. Period,’ Solis said following a court hearing.

Belgal’s lawyers have challenged the legality of his detention, securing a temporary court order preventing his removal from the United States.

Mamdani and Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul have also unsuccessfully pressed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and Trump to release him.

Mullin has defended the federal operation and accused New York officials of making immigration enforcement more dangerous by refusing to cooperate fully with ICE.

The Bronx District Attorney’s Office is investigating the shooting, while federal authorities have promised to release their agents’ body-camera footage.