Renewed volcanic activity at one of Hawaii’s busiest tourist attractions has prompted officials to close several trails temporarily, after hundreds of earthquakes and the threat of falling rocks raised safety concerns.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) issued an alert earlier this week for Kīlauea volcano at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Scientists reported fresh spattering from two vents after a new burst of activity beneath the summit.

The National Park Service (NPS) said Wednesday that Halemaʻumaʻu Trail and a section of Byron Ledge Trail would be closed temporarily because of elevated seismic activity and the possibility of rockfalls.

Together, the closures cover about 1.3 miles of park trails.

More than 200 shallow earthquakes struck beneath Kīlauea’s summit over the past week, according to the NPS, which cited information from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

A magnitude-3.4 earthquake recorded on Sept. 30 triggered minor rockfalls along the northern wall of the caldera.

As of Thursday, Kīlauea remained under an ORANGE aviation color code, the second-highest designation in the USGS’ four-level warning system.

The alert signals increased volcanic unrest and the possibility of an eruption, or an ongoing eruption posing limited danger to aircraft.

Scientists believe an underground intrusion between Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 may have opened additional cracks across the caldera floor.

However, researchers said they are unable to determine when—or whether—the volcano’s 55th lava-fountaining episode will take place.

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“Forecast windows for episode 55 fountaining can no longer be modeled due to changes in conditions,” the USGS said in its advisory.

The agency also warned of hazards for people in the area, including potentially harmful volcanic gases and tiny, glass-like fragments capable of irritating the skin and eyes.

“Small glassy volcanic fragments may be remobilized during windy conditions following recent eruptive episodes,” the statement said.

The USGS urged residents and visitors to limit their exposure to the particles because they can cause skin and eye irritation.

The NPS reminded visitors to obey all closure signs and avoid unstable cliff edges, which may give way with little or no warning.

Kīlauea is considered one of the most active volcanoes on Earth and has erupted dozens of times since 1952, according to the USGS.

The volcano’s East Rift Zone experienced nearly continuous eruptions from 1983 through 2018. That 35-year period ended with intense eruptive activity and a major collapse at the summit, the agency said.

Since December 2024, intermittent eruptions have continued inside Halema’uma’u crater at the summit.

The National Park Service has reported a sharp rise in visitors during Kīlauea’s eruptive periods, as tourists seek views of the volcano’s dramatic activity.

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park recorded more than 1.8 million recreational visits in 2025, according to NPS figures.

Fox News Digital reached out to NPS for further details and comment.

Two Latvian nationals who legally reside in the United Kingdom were arrested Thursday under Section 4 of Britain’s National Security Act of 2023 after allegedly crossing a perimeter fence at RAF Molesworth, a sensitive military installation that supports key U.S. and NATO intelligence operations, Reuters reported.

The arrests prompted a major counterterrorism investigation into the breach at the strategically important base, which functions as a central intelligence hub for U.S. military commanders operating across Europe and Africa.

RAF Molesworth is also the site of a $556.5 million expansion focused on the Joint Intelligence Analysis Complex, or JIAC. The project is intended to bring together 20 intelligence facilities and house more than 1,000 personnel, according to reports.

The suspects, ages 32 and 36, were found inside the base at about 2 a.m. Thursday following a broad security search.

Ministry of Defense Police officers on routine patrol first became concerned around 10 p.m. Wednesday, when they discovered an abandoned vehicle near the installation’s perimeter.

Bomb disposal experts examined and cleared the vehicle. Armed officers later identified a breach in the fence and found the two men inside the base.

Both men were initially detained on suspicion of trespassing and causing criminal damage. They were later arrested under the National Security Act on suspicion of entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the United Kingdom. The suspects remain in custody while counterterrorism detectives carry out search warrants at two homes in nearby Peterborough.

RAF Molesworth is operated by the U.S. Air Force’s 423rd Air Base Group and serves as a nonflying installation focused on joint intelligence and command activities.

The facility hosts intelligence organizations supporting U.S. European Command, U.S. Africa Command and the NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre.

The site was used during World War II by the U.S. 15th Bombardment Squadron. The airfield was officially deactivated in 1973 and later converted into its current intelligence-focused role.

Ground was broken for the JIAC on April 12, 2024, with construction beginning that spring. The complex is scheduled to be completed in summer 2028.

A 2024 Defense Department release said the development is part of the department’s broader European Infrastructure Consolidation initiative.

“It will combine 20 facilities and over 1,000 DIA personnel into one location. Among others, it will host members of the NATO Intelligence Fusion Centre, Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System, U.S. Africa Command, U.S. European Command and U.S. Air Force elements in a cross-agency, multi-mission collaboration.”

Suzanne White, then deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said the complex would support “the U.S. and allies’ shared mission of ‘outpacing our strategic competitors and addressing threats together wherever they may arise.’”

The Defense Department adopted a two-phase procurement approach for the project, giving participating agencies an opportunity to offer input while helping simplify scheduling and construction requirements.

After the alleged intrusion, U.S. European Command commended British authorities for their rapid response.

“While we assess the global security posture, U.S. forces remain at the highest state of readiness,” the command said in a statement.

“We would also express our gratitude to the UK for the close partnership with U.S. forces on matters of security.”

British counterterrorism officials cautioned against drawing premature conclusions about possible espionage or terrorist motives.

“We’re very aware of the recent heightened interest and concern around military sites,” Counterterrorism Policing London commander Helen Flanagan said.

Flanagan added that investigators have not established a connection between the Molesworth breach and recent security concerns at RAF Fairford, another British base used by U.S. strategic bombers.

“We are keeping an open mind at this stage and inquiries are very much ongoing,” she said.

News Media has reached out to the Pentagon and the CIA for comment.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in a residential New York City neighborhood Thursday afternoon during what the agency described as a “targeted enforcement operation.”

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the shooting as an “outrage,” saying the man was inside a vehicle with a 5-year-old child when the gunfire erupted.

“School had just gotten out. The street was crowded with families and children. When the ICE agent opened fire, a 5-year-old child … was in the back seat of the car,” Mamdani said at a late-night news conference Thursday. “Thank God that child is physically unharmed.”

New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the 28-year-old shooting victim was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck below his left ear. He was listed in stable condition. The boy, whom authorities believe is the man’s son, was unharmed and placed in the care of a family member, Tisch said.

The shooting happened at about 4 p.m. ET in Marble Hill, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan, according to the NYPD.

The Department of Homeland Security said ICE agents were in the area to arrest the man as part of a “targeted enforcement operation.” During the operation, one officer “discharged his weapon,” striking him. ICE personnel provided medical assistance, and the man was transported alive to a local hospital, DHS said.

DHS offered no account of what immediately preceded the shooting, saying the incident remains under investigation and that additional information would be released as it becomes available.

DHS did not release the man’s name. The department said he is a citizen of the Dominican Republic who is in the United States illegally. It also alleged that he has ties to the Trinitarios gang, a prior grand larceny conviction and multiple previous arrests involving assault, robbery, drug possession and weapons possession.

Tisch said the man had been arrested twice in New York City. One case involved a 2023 robbery arrest that resulted in a guilty plea to grand larceny. The second, a 2025 arrest for the criminal sale of a controlled substance, remains pending.

The NYPD was not involved in the shooting but responded afterward, Tisch said. Officers encountered several men wearing “various forms of attire,” including construction-style vests and face masks. At least one person was carrying a long gun, she said.

When police arrived, the wounded man was handcuffed and sitting on the ground. NYPD officers then put him in a police vehicle, administered aid and transported him to the hospital, Tisch said.

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Investigators recovered evidence indicating that at least one ICE agent fired seven rounds, Tisch said. The man’s Honda CR-V sustained ballistic damage to its windshield, while the rear window was shattered.

NYPD surveillance cameras captured the events immediately before the shooting, Tisch said.

The footage shows the man reversing into a parking space near a fire hydrant. A plainclothes federal officer then approached the driver’s-side door with a drawn weapon, while a second plainclothes officer moved toward the vehicle near the driver’s-side headlight, Tisch said.

The vehicle began moving and disappeared from the camera’s view. The NYPD footage did not record the shooting itself, Tisch said.

An ICE vehicle, described as a gray four-door sedan, also sustained damage. Its front panel was damaged, and the lower panel was completely detached, Tisch said.

But he said those efforts were unsuccessful.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said late Thursday that she had also spoken with President Trump and the DHS secretary about the shooting.

“I expressed outrage on behalf of New Yorkers and urged them to halt ICE enforcement operations in New York,” Hochul said. “I also asked that any body camera footage of the shooting be released to the public so we can establish the facts and get to the truth.”

City officials have been informed that ICE has been using a Target parking lot near 225th Street as a staging area.

Protesters gathered in the hours following the shooting, some holding anti-ICE signs, as law enforcement worked the scene. Later, hundreds of protesters gathered outside New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital in upper Manhattan where the man who was shot was being treated.

Catherine Zeta-Jones showed she is still every bit the Hollywood bombshell when she stepped out in New York City on Thursday, just two days after her husband Michael Douglas released his revealing memoir.

The 57-year-old actress highlighted her statuesque figure in sleek, form-fitting black leather leggings, pairing them with towering stiletto heels for an even more dramatic look.

Her glossy jet-black hair framed her radiant complexion as she walked through Manhattan with a broad smile. She showed no visible sign of being troubled by the succession of intimate revelations in her husband’s book.

Titled One Helluva Ride, the autobiography recounts Douglas’s passionate affairs with co-stars Kathleen Turner and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Both relationships took place while he was still married to his first wife, model Diandra Luker.

Douglas also shared candid details about his romance with Zeta-Jones, revealing that she made him wait nine months before they slept together.

Zeta-Jones addressed the memoir publicly for the first time on Thursday morning, saying she had never actually read it during an appearance on the Today show.

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Douglas and Zeta-Jones for comment.

She drew an audible laugh from the studio crew when she joked: “As much as I love my husband, when I’m tired at night, I have no intention of reading about him at all.”

Zeta-Jones also pointed to her packed professional schedule, which included filming Wednesday, her Addams Family spin-off, as well as her new thriller series Kill Jackie.

Still, she urged “everyone else” to pick up the memoir, saying: “The book is called One Helluva Ride and I think everybody should hold onto their cowboy hats, because I think it is.”

Today show host Willie Geist said Douglas had told him that, after the memoir was published, he “peeked around a corner” to see Zeta-Jones and was relieved when she “didn’t seem upset.”

“He got me at a good time,” Zeta-Jones said with a laugh.

In his memoir, Douglas recalled meeting Zeta-Jones at the Deauville American Film Festival in France in 1998. He was 53 at the time, while she was a 28-year-old rising star.

Aware of his reputation as a lothario, Zeta-Jones reportedly made Douglas wait nine months before agreeing to sleep with him.

Although Douglas wrote that he “was willing to take whatever time we both needed,” he continued sleeping with five other women in different cities during the early stages of their courtship.

Their first sexual encounter came after Douglas invited her to his holiday home in Mallorca. He offered her a separate bedroom and brought along Miami Heat owner Pat Riley and Riley’s wife of 30 years, hoping Zeta-Jones would see him alongside a “normal, stable couple.”

“That, I hoped, would offset my ‘reputation’ that Catherine had mentioned the first night we met,” he wrote. “And I thought that having my treasured friends around would help Catherine feel comfortable. Turns out, I was right.”

Having taken their relationship to the next level, Zeta-Jones insisted on monogamy, whereupon Douglas made ‘five quick calls.’

Douglas and Zeta-Jones welcomed their son Dylan in August 2000 and married at the iconic Plaza Hotel on New York’s Fifth Avenue that November.

Their daughter Carys, whom Zeta-Jones was heavily pregnant with when she danced at the Oscars and won best supporting actress for Chicago, arrived in April 2003.

The marriage was not without its rough patches, particularly in the early 2010s as Douglas battled throat cancer and Zeta-Jones was diagnosed with bipolar II disorder. 

The couple briefly separated in 2013 but quickly fell back into each other’s arms later that year, with Douglas divulging he and Zeta-Jones were ‘working things out.’ 

While promoting his new memoir, Douglas insisted the split was ‘mutual’ and firmly shot down the suggestion that he ‘won her back,’ in the Sunday Times.

‘You know, we had our problems but I love her dearly and, 25 years, you know,’ he said. ‘I mean, I don’t know about your marital status, but marriage is a lot of work, you know. And so, you know, we’re good. We’re in good shape. It’s all I can say.’

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His marriage to Luker lasted from 1977 until 1995 and produced a son called Cameron, now 47, whose past struggles with addiction are detailed in the book.

Douglas characterized his relationship with Luker as a ‘bumpy ride’ punctuated by mutual infidelity and on-off splits so frequent he lost count of them.

However, the Wall Street icon maintained that he ‘never gave up hope that we would reconcile’ during his time apart from Zeta-Jones in 2013. 

Douglas also disclosed he indulged in an affair with Jeanne Tripplehorn when she played his therapist and love interest in Basic Instinct.

When Basic Instinct arrived in theaters, Tripplehorn was 28 years old and unmarried while Douglas was 47 and still married to Luker.

In One Helluva Ride, Douglas confessed he was so ‘crazy about’ Tripplehorn that he found himself on the verge of leaving Luker for her.

However, he ultimately arrived at the conclusion that the ‘worst thing’ for him would be to leap straight from what was then his 15-year marriage into another relationship. 

When the affair began, Tripplehorn ‘was unwilling to get involved with a married man, but I assured her that Diandra and I had formally separated,’ said Douglas. 

Nevertheless, he was determined to avoid scandal and kept his involvement with Tripplehorn hidden from even their co-stars and the crew, spending private hours with her ensconced in the residence he was renting.

‘While our intimacy in real life was amazing, it made shooting our lovemaking scenes on camera challenging. In front of the crew, Jeanne was so nervous that she kept laughing uncontrollably,’ Douglas recalled.

‘She finally stopped laughing, and we filmed an intense sex scene where I tear her clothes and bite her. She asks me to stop, but I don’t.’

Noting that the era of intimacy coordinators had yet to dawn, Douglas wrote that they ‘did have some concept of consent’ but made the scene ‘the old-fashioned way’ after a careful rehearsal process in which each move was agreed upon before the shoot.

He recalled: ‘At the point when I was supposed to bite the back of her neck, I checked in with Jeanne after each take to make sure she was okay. After the second or third time, she said: “Michael, you know you can really bite me.”‘

Douglas took the note, but ‘the scene was so intense and we were both so involved in it, she couldn’t feel a thing’ – notwithstanding the bruising that had to be concealed the following day by the hair and makeup team.

He has clarified this week that although he did not have ‘much connection with Jeanne’ after Basic Instinct wrapped, he ‘called her up and asked for her permission’ to include their romantic history in his book and she ‘said yes,’ via People.

One Helluva Ride also saw Douglas finally admit he and Kathleen Turner conducted an affair during the making of their 1984 classic Romancing the Stone.

Douglas was married to Luker and Turner was dating her eventual husband, real estate mogul Jay Weiss, at the time the two movie stars fell into bed together.

Rumors of their romance reached such a crescendo that Luker traveled to the Mexican set of the film to confront Turner, who always denied the affair publicly.

However, Douglas has now admitted to the dalliance, detailing in his book how he and Turner became swept up in ‘lust’ on the set of the adventure film.

They were apparently able to conceal the fling from their colleagues, up to and including their co-star Danny DeVito and director Robert Zemeckis.

‘Following an exhausting day of shooting in the jungle, we’d go out and have a meal, or head out with the group and afterward I would sneak into her hotel room after everybody was asleep,’ the Fatal Attraction star shared.

Luker brought the affair to an end when she alighted on the set, bringing along her and Douglas’s then four-year-old son Cameron.

Turner has now reacted with equanimity to Douglas’s indiscretion about her in his memoirs, saying: ‘Good heavens, what a fuss about something 40 years ago! I love Michael and I look forward to enjoying the book.’

One of Florida’s longest-serving death row prisoners has avoided execution amid reports that he is suffering from dementia, nearly five decades after his conviction in a torture murder.

Gov. Ron DeSantis withdrew William Thompson’s death warrant Thursday, just five days before the 74-year-old inmate was scheduled to be executed for a killing once described by police as Miami-Dade’s “meanest murder.”

DeSantis did not explain the decision in a letter sent to Florida State Prison Warden Randall Polk and reviewed by The Post. The governor had signed Thompson’s death warrant only on Sept. 11.

The warrant’s withdrawal follows reports that Thompson, who has spent longer on Miami-Dade’s death row than any other inmate, is experiencing dementia.

Thompson was initially sentenced to death in 1976. Although the sentence was later overturned and reimposed, he twice avoided execution in the 1980s. He has remained on death row since 1989.

The Eighth Amendment bars the execution of death row inmates whose mental illness prevents them from understanding why they are being put to death.

In an emergency petition filed Sept. 16, Thompson’s attorney, Brittney Lacy, urged Florida Department of Corrections officials to immediately transfer him to a hospital, citing his need for “emergent medical care,” according to court documents reviewed by The Post.

“He could not give counsel any details about his hospital stays,” Lacy wrote, adding that Thompson “appeared unaware.”

The petition states that Thompson “did not understand” questions doctors asked him about his surgeries.

Florida neuropsychologist Robert Ouaou examined Thompson and concluded that he “meets the criteria for insanity due to his dementia and significant cognitive decline.”

According to the evaluation, Thompson “lacks the mental capacity to understand the fact of his impending execution and the reason for it.”

Thompson also told the doctor that he was in “severe pain” and “too weak to freely move his arms or extremities,” Lacy said in the filing.

Thompson had previously been hospitalized in Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Gainesville, where doctors documented what they described as a “knowledge deficit.”

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Court documents say he “did not know who the president was” and answered “Bush.” It remains unclear which former President Bush he meant.

His attorneys said Thompson was “unable to recall [what he had] eaten, [whether he had] been seen by medical staff [or] spoken to by anyone.”

Thompson was sentenced to death in 1976 after he and accomplice Rocco Surace were convicted in the killing of Sally Ivester at the Sunny Isles Motel in Miami Beach.

Ivester had been with another woman, Barbara Savage, when she encountered the two men, who would later become her killers.

The men demanded $200 from Ivester, but she was able to give them only $25.

The small payment reportedly enraged the pair, who beat Ivester with chains and burned her with cigarettes during the attack.

Thompson and Surace then ordered Ivester to call her mother and ask for additional money before assaulting her.

The killing was so brutal that local cops described it as “Dade’s meanest murder,” according to the Miami Herald.

Ivester died from shock and the internal injuries she sustained.

Surace initially pleaded guilty to the kidnapping, rape and murder of Ivester – before the Supreme Court reversed his sentence. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 203 years in prison before he died in 1993 while in custody.

Thompson’s initial death row sentence was overturned – before he was spared from execution twice in 1982 and 1987. 

He was sent back to death row in 1989, where he remained for more than 30 years – before the motion was withdrawn.

“Withdrawing the death warrant for William Thompson was the correct decision. Mr. Thompson is gravely ill, not competent, and intellectually disabled,” Grace Hanna, the executive director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty said, welcoming DeSantis’ decision.

“His execution would have been an abject violation of the Eighth Amendment and an affront to human dignity.”

A man armed with a pistol was fatally shot Thursday at a security checkpoint inside a federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee’s largest city, police said.

The man, who was in his 40s, was shot after attempting to fire the weapon but failing, according to Don Aaron, a spokesperson for the Metro Nashville Police Department.

“The security individual fired on the armed individual,” Aaron said. The man was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Authorities believed the man was from out of state, but they did not release details about why he was at the courthouse. The library next door was closed following the shooting.

Everyone entering the courthouse must pass through a security checkpoint.

“That’s the entrance that most people in this courthouse use,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Rob McGuire said.

Following the shooting, officers with police dogs patrolled the courthouse perimeter while employees from nearby buildings gathered along the streets to observe the scene.