Miley Cyrus has made Billboard history with her new album Bass Persuades—but for an unwelcome reason.

After beating early sales projections to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last week, Bass Persuades has collapsed to No. 157 in its second week.

The dramatic 156-place plunge marks the largest second-week drop from No. 1 ever recorded for a female artist on the Billboard chart.

Madonna previously held the record with Madame X, which slid from No. 1 to No. 77 in 2019. A few months later, Celine Dion surpassed that mark when Courage fell from the top position to No. 111.

Bass Persuades is Cyrus’ first album with Atlantic Records following her departure from Columbia Records earlier this year.

The album was initially expected to miss the top five, but Atlantic Records launched an aggressive sales campaign to push it toward a No. 1 debut.

The label cut the album’s digital price and issued it in 16 vinyl variants, nine CD editions, six download versions and a cassette format.

The strategy helped Bass Persuades substantially outperform its initial forecast. It ultimately edged out country singer Ella Langley’s Dandelion by about 70 units to claim the top spot.

Cyrus and Atlantic Records celebrated the narrow victory last month, when the label sent the singer a floral wreath designed in the shape of a number one.

“Bass Persuades being #1 transcends a win,” Cyrus wrote on Instagram at the time.

“This process has been some of the best times for me. Everyone involved made it possible and more importantly fun and memorable,” she added.

“Thank you Atlantic, my team, and everyone who walks beside me with conviction. I love you.

“To the fans, you make my world go round. Making music for you brings immeasurable joy to my life. Forever.”

While Bass Persuades has plunged to No. 157, Cyrus’ pop counterparts are holding strong on this week’s Billboard chart.

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Taylor Swift reclaimed the summit with The Life of a Showgirl, helped by the arrival of its deluxe “Encore” edition.

Olivia Rodrigo’s You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So In Love remains at No. 2, underscoring the album’s staying power four months after its release.

Langley’s Dandelion, which narrowly lost to Cyrus last week, slipped just one place to No. 3 after spending nearly six months on the chart.

Daily Mail has reached out to Atlantic Records for comment.  

Cyrus has struggled on the charts in recent years, with her prior album, last year’s Something Beautiful, also failing to become a commercial success.

The former Hannah Montana star has largely coasted off the success of her 2023 single Flowers, which is the biggest hit of her career and won Record of the Year at the Grammy Awards in 2024.

Cyrus has refused to tour any of her music since 2014’s Bangerz world tour, although she has teased a potential residency in the future. 

She’s set to play two shows at the Hollywood Bowl this month, which resulted in a whopping 1.5 million fans queuing up in an attempt to snag one of the 18,000 tickets to the iconic venue. 

Speaking to Zane Lowe about the concerts, Cyrus admitted that she chose the Hollywood Bowl because she wanted to get home to bed immediately after performing and that she doesn’t need to go on a proper tour to sell tickets. 

‘I chose to do the show at the Bowl because I knew that my bed was only going to be like a 10-minute drive home by 11,’ she said.

‘I’ve learned now through the queue that my calculations are correct, and people will come to me. I don’t need to drive to you. Proven. That was a test. I win.’ 

Newly released body-camera video captures the tense moment federal agents, weapons drawn, boarded a boat suspected of carrying people involved in a human-smuggling operation off Newport Harbor.

The footage, released Saturday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, shows authorities intercepting the vessel with 14 suspected migrants from Mexico. The boat was escorted into Newport Harbor, where it was seized and everyone aboard was taken into custody.

The Department of Justice said Tuesday that Jose Miguel Castro-Duenas, 44, a Mexican national who had previously been deported, faces charges of attempting to transport undocumented migrants and illegally reentering the United States.

The incident began at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday, when officers aboard a CBP Interceptor Vessel spotted a suspicious fishing-style boat in the waters off the affluent Orange County coastal community.

Video shows the high-speed Interceptor closing in on the vessel, which authorities say had been made to resemble a recreational fishing boat.

“I got eight down here,” one CBP agent says in the recording while aiming a firearm toward the boat’s cabin.

“We’re going to take one out at a time, and I’m going to stay right here,” the agent says as suspected migrants begin emerging from a compartment beneath the boat’s deck.

The Interceptor later speeds into Newport Harbor while towing the seized boat. The dramatic arrival unfolded as crowds gathered for the annual Pacific Airshow, which features U.S. Air Force aircraft and attracts thousands of spectators.

Officers brought everyone ashore and placed them in custody. One person, experiencing dehydration and seasickness, was examined by emergency medical personnel and cleared.

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Castro-Duenas, who is also known as Luis Enrique Santoyo-Orozco, appeared in court for the first time on October 5. His arraignment is scheduled for November 9.

“This case reflects a brazen assault on the rule of law and the sovereignty of the United States, where a previously deported illegal alien smuggler unlawfully reentered our country and resumed smuggling operations in one of our coastal communities,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said.

“We will not tolerate repeated violations of federal law or attempts to exploit our coastline as an entry point for illegal smuggling activity.”

The latest CBP interception came roughly two weeks after another suspected migrant-smuggling incident at a private harbor dock. In that case, a dozen men reportedly disembarked from a 20-foot boat, which was abandoned after hitting and damaging another vessel.

Witnesses told authorities that the men then climbed into two waiting vehicles. The incident remains under investigation.

About two weeks earlier, a Coast Guard cutter stopped a 28-foot cabin boat west of Newport carrying approximately two dozen suspected migrants. Those aboard were brought to Newport Harbor and transferred to Border Patrol agents.

Federal officials say smugglers are increasingly turning to maritime routes as enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border becomes tighter. Human-trafficking networks frequently work with organized crime groups to move migrants into the United States.

Authorities describe sea crossings as among the costliest and most dangerous methods used by smugglers. In July, agents discovered 21 suspected migrants crammed aboard a small smuggling vessel, including a 56-year-old man who was unresponsive and later died.

PHILADELPHIA — Investigators have returned to a home in the city’s Olney neighborhood, where photographs show them removing glass vials, a vacuum cleaner, workout equipment and other items.

The latest search follows Philadelphia police disclosures that more than 1 million pieces of digital evidence were recovered from the property, which some reports have described as a “house of horrors.”

The home was formerly owned by pornographer Raymond “RC” Horsch, who died last year at age 82.

A photograph showed an evidence bag bearing a partly readable label. The contents were listed as “glass vials” and a “board,” along with references to a bin and drawers.

Among the boxes and sealed evidence bags removed Monday were a rowing machine and a vacuum cleaner, according to photographs.

“The investigation remains active and ongoing,” a Philadelphia police spokesperson told News Media on Tuesday. “Additional information will be released as it becomes available and is appropriate for public release.”

Horsch’s work focused on sadistic themes. Investigators are now examining whether some of that material could reflect real events, after evidence from the home was linked to seven separate cases involving missing women.

Philadelphia police have returned to the property several times since June, when they arrested Horsch’s 44-year-old son, Eugene, on drug, firearms and forgery charges.

Police searching the residence after the arrest allegedly discovered “snuff” videos that investigators believe depict multiple missing women. They also reported finding a drum of chemicals connected to the home’s water system and five urns containing material that could be human ashes.

Authorities say four of the seven missing women believed to be connected to the property have been identified in the images.

Only some of those women have been publicly named. Philadelphia police identified 26-year-old Maribel Fresses, who disappeared in 2018, and 27-year-old Gabrielle Aramando earlier in the investigation.

Police told News Media in September that, when Eugene Horsch was arrested, the woman accompanying him possessed identification belonging to Blair Tonzelli, who was 38 and was last seen in Philadelphia in February 2023.

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Local reports identified two additional women. Both remain listed as missing in the National Missing and Unidentified Person System, known as NamUs.

One of them is Horsch’s former wife, Amy McHale, who was 54 when the Philadelphia Inquirer reported her disappearance in June. McHale was 44 when she was last seen on June 13, 2016.

The other is Nicole “Nikki” Fusaro, 34, according to CBS’s Philadelphia affiliate, citing local police sources.

She was 27 when she vanished near the intersection of Kensington and Allegheny Avenue in July 2019.

Investigators said they have also identified dozens of other people from the images.

Excavation crews have previously been seen searching outside and under the home, including the sewers.

The younger Horsch has not been charged in connection with any of the missing women. But at the time of his unrelated arrest in a BMW at the city’s Independence Mall, authorities allege that the woman with him was carrying one of their IDs.

Dr. Kris Mohandie, a board-certified forensic psychologist, has warned that the elder Horsch may have been part of a wider network centered on the production and distribution of “snuff films.”

“The fact that the father was involved in the pornographic industry indicates that there may have been, in addition to the sadistic motives that we usually see in serial murders, that there may have been profit in distribution of so-called snuff films,” he told News Media previously.

The older Horsch was a convicted producer of methamphetamines and an author of sexually explicit and violent books. In one, 2014’s “Empathy,” there is a chapter about dissolving a murdered woman’s body with boiling chemicals.

Cornell University police prepared requests for phone records linked to an alleged gang rape investigation, but it is not known whether prosecutors ever received them, according to a new report.

Documents obtained by CNN show that Cornell police sent letters to Verizon and T-Mobile roughly one week after a female student, identified as Jane Doe, reported that she had allegedly been sexually assaulted at the Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024.

Dated November 15, 2024, the letters said police were “investigating a sexual assault incident, wherein it is believed that the account/phone number listed below may contain evidence pertinent to the ongoing investigation,” the outlet reported.

The department said it would provide a signed warrant within 30 days and asked the carriers to “preserve all available data,” including text messages, emails, phone calls, photographs and video messages associated with the accounts, according to the report.

However, it remains unknown whether the draft requests were actually sent to Verizon and T-Mobile or whether Cornell police later pursued subpoenas.

It is also unclear whether Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten was aware of the police department’s request for the records.

Van Houten initially reviewed the sexual assault allegation and declined to bring charges against the accused. His office has since reopened the investigation.

Jane Doe’s attorney told CNN that she recorded several calls with the men accused in the case, which has attracted national attention since she filed a lawsuit last month against them, Cornell University and others.

Some communications between Jane Doe and the accused men have since come to light, including a phone call she shared with Matthew Ingalls.

Ingalls had invited Jane Doe to the fraternity house on October 19, 2024, before he allegedly drugged and raped her. The university later expelled him.

As university police investigated Jane Doe’s allegation, Ingalls claimed he had been too intoxicated to consent to sexual intercourse, according to records obtained by ABC News.

He also suggested that Jane Doe might have assaulted him.

In a call obtained by Cornell police, however, Ingalls was heard telling Jane Doe: “You did tell me you were sober, by the way.”

The recording reflected conflicting accounts of the alleged attack. Jane Doe told Ingalls that he “already knew I was 10 shots deep” when he and six others allegedly sexually assaulted her.

“If I wanted to take this somewhere, what y’all did would be classified as gang rape,” she told him in one message.

Jane Doe also said she had gone to the emergency room and attended therapy after the alleged assault because there was “so much damage on my body and my brain.”

During the call, Ingalls denied wrongdoing and told Jane Doe that she had convinced him she was not intoxicated and “hadn’t been anywhere” that night. She disputed his account.

Yet Jane Doe could be heard in the audio asking Ingalls for details about the night, including how they ended up in a threesome in his fraternity house.

‘So, you come in, say hi, and we start dancing for maybe like three to five minutes… And then I pop the question, you say yes,’ he replied.

He said they ‘didn’t know who else to bring’ into the threesome, so he found another man on the dancefloor [sic] who agreed, ‘and then we go upstairs.’

That other man involved in the alleged threesome was Jonathan Newell, who has also been accused of sending out a Snapchat message to a group chat with more than 50 frat members that night that read ‘Free p****’, referring to Jane Doe, according to the lawsuit reviewed by the Daily Mail. 

Newell was also expelled. 

Five others allegedly engaged in sexual acts with Jane Doe while she was incapacitated and without her consent, the female student told investigators, per the filing.

Winston Lee, another frat brother named in the lawsuit, was suspended for two years and faced several semesters of disciplinary probation when he returned to campus, according to disciplinary summaries seen by The New York Times. 

Gillio Lopes was suspended for three semesters, followed by two years of probation. Both of them were also ordered to write essays and study sexual harassment, the summaries stated.

Jane Doe has also accused Diego Sarabia of forcibly kissing her that night, according to the lawsuit.

He was banned from campus for three years, and a persona non grata order was issued against him after he graduated at the time of the panel’s ruling, the outlet stated.

The other two men, Scott Norris and Scott Kretzschmar, were told they can not be in contact with Jane Doe, also had to write essays, and had to study sexual harassment and social media use and bystander intervention as a result of the school’s investigation two years ago.

The fraternity chapter has since been banned from campus following the school’s investigation.

Since the allegations came to light in September, protests have broken out across the campus. 

Activists shattered windows and vandalized buildings with red-painted messages condemning patriarchy and the Ivy League school’s handling of sexual assaults on Monday, photos showed.

When approached for comment, a Cornell University spokesperson told the Daily Mail: ‘We do not have anything further to say due to the active investigation.’ 

The Daily Mail also reached out to the Cornell University Police Department, the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office, Verizon and T-Mobile for comment. 

California is moving to prohibit the creation or installation of engineered quartz after a surge in cases of a deadly lung disease among workers who cut the material for kitchen countertops.

The state’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is expected to approve an emergency regulation targeting engineered quartz in October. The proposal reflects growing concern about the health risks associated with the popular alternative to granite and marble.

The proposed ban would cover manufactured stone containing more than 1 percent crystalline silica.

California is expected to review the regulation before it can take effect as law.

Crystalline silica is present at particularly high levels in engineered quartz. When the material is cut, the silica can become airborne as fine dust.

Once inhaled, the dust can trigger an aggressive immune response in the lungs. Scar tissue develops, progressively damaging and destroying lung function.

People who develop silicosis often eventually require a single- or double-lung transplant.

The number of Californians diagnosed with the disease has risen sharply in recent years, increasing from 31 cases in 2019 to 631 by mid-August, according to one study.

The report found that nearly all of those affected were men, with roughly half living in Los Angeles County. Their median age was 52.

Enrique Gonzalez, a stone worker from the San Fernando Valley, is among those affected. He has been unable to work for two years after developing silicosis through years of employment in granite and stone manufacturing.

Gonzalez’s family previously told the California Post that his illness had left them struggling to pay medical bills and meet everyday expenses.

His 30-year-old daughter, Edith Gonzalez, said his condition began to improve only after he received a lung transplant this summer.

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“He has recovered really well from the lung transplant. His body took it really well. He is showing signs of improvement, like right away,” Gonzalez said. “Before he got his lung transplant, he got really, really bad. Like his condition was very bad, where he got intubated because he couldn’t breathe, even just a little bit.”

Fortunately, Gonzalez said, her father had already been placed on the transplant list when his health reached a critical stage. The family had initially been cautioned that donor lungs might take years to become available.

“So thankfully, when his condition got really bad, he had that lung transplant,” she said.

Before the operation, even brief walks had become a major challenge. Gonzalez said her father relied on a cane and often needed a wheelchair to travel from the car to medical appointments or the emergency room. He also regularly became breathless despite using supplemental oxygen.

Since the transplant, however, his daily life has changed dramatically.

“Right after he got his lung transplant, obviously yes he had some help with walking and support, but now he doesn’t need a cane. He doesn’t need a wheelchair,” Gonzalez said. “He’s able to do his morning and evening walks. He’s like a new person.”

His daughter described him as a quiet, family-focused man who spent most of his life working and served as the family’s main breadwinner.

“He’s always just been at home, gone to work, and back home,” she said.

The transplant marks a major turnaround for Gonzalez, but his recovery is far from over. His daughter said he remains under significant restrictions and spends much of his time attending medical appointments, undergoing physical therapy and following up with doctors.

“He can’t really be outside. He can’t go to a lot of places,” she said. “So right now it’s all been about his recovery of just staying home and going to the doctors.”

With Gonzalez unable to work for the past two years, the family has relied in part on donations through GoFundMe to help cover expenses.

“It has helped a lot because obviously he was not able to work and it did take a toll on us because he has always been the family provider,” Gonzalez said. “I feel very grateful that he had a second chance at life.”

An Arizona man previously detained and released without charges during the investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s unsolved abduction has been arrested again, authorities said. The new arrest involves unrelated allegations.

“Luke Daley was booked into the Pima County Adult Detention Complex on September 30, 2026,” a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson told News Media. “This is unrelated to the Nancy Guthrie case.”

Daley, 37, has an extensive criminal history that includes previous felony convictions. On Feb. 13, police stopped him in the parking lot of a Culver’s restaurant and searched his mother’s home as part of the investigation into Guthrie’s disappearance. The residence is about two miles from Guthrie’s home in Tucson’s Catalina Foothills.

Daley was released several hours later without being charged.

Authorities have not publicly named any suspects in Guthrie’s abduction, and her location remains unknown. A masked person captured in Nest doorbell footage near the time of her disappearance is also still at large.

“Mr. Daley has no link whatsoever to Nancy Guthrie and has no information related to her kidnapping,” his attorney, Chris Scileppi, said after Daley’s release. “Like the entire Tucson community, both Mr. Daley and his mother are hopeful that Nancy will be returned to her family unharmed.”

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Daley was already facing drug and firearm charges and was on probation in a separate case involving drug and weapons violations. Prosecutors have asked the court to revoke that probation.

People with information about Guthrie’s disappearance are urged to call 1-800-CALL-FBI or reach Tucson’s Crime Stoppers affiliate at 520-88-CRIME. More than $1.2 million in combined reward money remains available.

Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for more than eight months.

Guthrie’s family received two messages allegedly sent by her kidnappers through online tip forms submitted to news organizations. One demanded a ransom, while the other claimed that she had died unexpectedly.

Investigators have not determined who sent the messages or verified whether they are authentic.