A man has been charged with attempted murder following a brutal stabbing spree on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” during the incident. The New York Police Department stated that one of the charges includes a hate crime related to one victim.

Raul Morales, 51, made a dramatic appearance during his perp walk on Friday afternoon, shouting “Justice for the Romero family” at gathered reporters. He referred to a woman by name and promised her story would not be forgotten.

According to the NYPD, Morales is facing several charges—including attempted murder, assault, and possession of a weapon—stemming from an attack on a 57-year-old Asian man.

In a separate assault on a 50-year-old Jewish man, Morales has been accused of attempted murder and assault as hate crimes, along with additional charges of assault and criminal weapon possession.

Police said the stabbings appeared to be separate attacks that happened near each other Thursday afternoon on the Upper West Side. Authorities said there was no known connection between Morales and either of the two victims.

According to police, Morales allegedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” during the attacks. The NYPD is investigating whether bias played a role. 

Both victims were taken to a hospital in stable condition. Police have said initial findings suggest mental health may have been a factor in the attacks, though Morales had no known mental health history with the NYPD.

Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother found guilty of the tragic murder of her children, has an ex-husband who has chosen to restart his life in the bustling streets of New York City. Remarkably, he has found a new beginning with another partner, tying the knot with a doctor specializing in fertility care.

Just four months after the heart-wrenching incident where Patrick Clancy discovered the lifeless bodies of his children, strangled by their mother in their Duxbury home, he made a significant move to Manhattan, as revealed by public records obtained by The Post.

Now residing in a chic high-rise in Midtown Manhattan, the 38-year-old Microsoft professional shares this new chapter of his life with Dr. Rachel Danis, his newfound love.

Dr. Danis, who is 37, brings her expertise as a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist to a prominent clinic in New York City, as detailed in her professional biography.

Social media offers a glimpse into their joyous journey together, filled with heartwarming snapshots. The couple is seen enjoying various moments including a shared fitness class at Barry’s and beaming with happiness while posing at the NYC Marathon in the cheerful autumn of 2025.

The duo tied the knot in April this year during an intimate ceremony at the Ladies Pavilion in Central Park, followed by a celebration with friends and family at the nearby restaurant Sarabeth’s, the Daily Mail reported.

“Pat has obviously gone through an incredible trauma, and Rachel is a nurturing person by nature,” an unidentified friend of the couple told the outlet. 

“She is upbeat, smiling, vivacious and full of energy. It’s fitting that she helps create life in the face of this tragedy,” the pal added, referring to Danis’ job. 

Danis also serves as an assistant clinical professor in the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

“Rachel has a heart of gold…If she can take a guy and try to heal him, that’s what she would do,” the friend continued, and praised Patrick for refusing to let his children’s murders define the rest of his life. 

“A lot of people would recoil and just…be a shadow of their former self and never move on. So I admire this guy – I really do,” he said.

Despite the killings and their divorce, Patrick has remained publicly supportive of his ex-wife – and even urged others to forgive her unthinkable crime. 

“I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick,” he told the New Yorker in October 2024. 

As Clancy’s triple-murder trial gets underway in Plymouth County, Patrick is expected to appear as the first witness to take the stand Monday.

He is going to testify for the prosecution first, though he’s also on the defense team’s witness list, according to the Boston Globe.

The slain kids’ father will likely face questions about his marriage with Clancy, their home life and his perception of his then-wife’s mental state leading up to the grisly killings, as well as his version of events that fateful day, the outlet reported. 

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, will then have the opportunity to cross-examine Patrick and bring up points that are essential to the defense’s insanity argument, including the mom’s repeated efforts to get help for postpartum psychosis. 

The trial’s outcome will hinge on whether jurors believe the former nurse was suffering from a psychiatric episode, worsened by a cocktail of antipsychotic medications, when she strangled the children to death, experts previously told The Post. 

Clancy is accused of using exercise bands to fatally strangle her kids in the basement of the family’s home before becoming paralyzed from the waist down from the botched bid to kill herself. 

Prosecutors are expected to argue that the mother wasn’t suffering a mental break – rather, that she was lucid enough to methodically plan how to get her then-husband out of the house that day so she could be alone with their children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.

Patrick filed a last-minute motion last week seeking to prevent the public from hearing his 911 call recording, as well as seeing any “pre-incident,” crime scene or autopsy photographs of the three kids, during the trial, according to court papers.

He also requested that the display of any clothing that once belonged to his children be restricted in the courtroom. 

Judge Sullivan reportedly granted the motion Friday, ordering media not to record, display, reproduce, distribute or otherwise disseminate the 911 call and autopsy photos.

However, the evidence will be shown to everyone present in the courtroom – and reporters are allowed to discuss its contents, WCVB reported.

Danis and Patrick’s attorney did not respond to requests for comment.

In Massachusetts, a judge has taken a significant step by partly approving a bereaved father’s plea to protect particularly graphic evidence expected in the murder trial of his former wife. The woman stands accused of the chilling crime of strangling their young children within the sanctity of their home.

On Friday, Plymouth Superior Court Judge William Sullivan decreed that the incendiary 911 call made by Patrick Clancy, along with harrowing autopsy photos of their young children—5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan—cannot be recorded, displayed, reproduced, or shared by the media or the public.

Despite these restrictions, this evidence will still be introduced to the jurors during Lindsay Clancy’s trial, as court proceedings begin. Opening statements are set to launch the trial’s public phase on Monday.

Although journalists are permitted to report on the content heard or observed in the courtroom, they are explicitly prohibited from broadcasting or publishing the recordings or images themselves, in accordance with the judge’s concise two-page ruling.

Patrick Clancy had asked Sullivan to restrict the public and media’s ability to record, broadcast or distribute evidence, including the 911 call, family and crime-scene photographs, autopsy images and the clothing the children were wearing.

Sullivan’s order specifically bars the reproduction or dissemination of the 911 recording and autopsy photographs. It does not prevent prosecutors or the defense from introducing the evidence at trial.

Sullivan wrote that the release or reproduction of the material would create a “substantial likelihood of harm” or another harmful consequence for Patrick Clancy and the children’s family.

Sullivan issued the ruling after hearing arguments from attorneys representing Patrick Clancy, prosecutors and Lindsay Clancy. Boston Globe Media Partners also filed a response opposing aspects of the request, according to the order.

Patrick Clancy’s 911 call is expected to provide jurors with an account of what he encountered after returning to the family’s home on Jan. 24, 2023, when the children were found unresponsive.

Lindsay Clancy is charged with murder in the January 2023 deaths of her three children inside their Duxbury, Massachusetts home.

Prosecutors allege Clancy strangled the children inside the family’s home before attempting to take her own life. Her attorneys have argued that she was suffering from severe mental illness and postpartum psychosis at the time.

A jury of 18 people — 12 women and six men — was seated Thursday after several days of questioning prospective jurors about their knowledge of the case and whether they could remain impartial.

Opening statements are scheduled for Monday in Plymouth Superior Court.

Nestled beneath the imposing landscape of Pickaxe Mountain, Iran has constructed what seems to be an impregnable nuclear fortress, one that Tehran believes even the United States cannot dismantle. However, President Donald Trump is not willing to let that confidence last another week.

Fortunately, he has several strategies at his disposal.

For years, Tehran has adhered to a familiar approach, clandestinely developing underground nuclear facilities that bolster its ambitions to enhance its nuclear capabilities.

Pickaxe Mountain is emerging as the most recent and possibly the most perilous of these sites.

In 2020, Iran’s head of nuclear operations cautioned that the site was undergoing excavation for the purpose of constructing “a more modern, vaster, and inclusive building,” with operations running round the clock to relocate all critical activities deep within the mountain’s core.

Since then, Iran has spent six years carving Pickaxe into what it hopes will be an indestructible nuclear sanctuary.

This is more than double the time it spent secretly building its enrichment plants at Fordow and Natanz before being caught.

Both those sites were already in “an advanced stage of construction” when inspections occurred.

Inspectors still have never been to Pickaxe, and it appears unlikely they ever will.

Satellite imagery suggests the facility may well be large enough to reconstitute many, possibly all, of Iran’s core nuclear activities: centrifuge storage and production, uranium enrichment and stockpiling and even weaponization.

This is helped by Iran’s technological advances in recent years, which minimize its need for floor space, and time, to dash for a bomb.

A recent report says Iran might now be moving enrichment centrifuges to Pickaxe; it’s been observed working on the site in recent months.

Trump himself warned this year that Iran was undertaking new activities at a site “protected by granite.”

Yet Pickaxe went untouched in Operations Midnight Hammer last year and Epic Fury in the spring.

Iran is banking on the site being impenetrable in a way that its other subterranean sites were not.

Initial estimates suggested it could be even further underground than Fordow, Iran’s most sensitive and deepest-buried enrichment plant at the time it was struck in Midnight Hammer.   

Hence Iran’s refusal to negotiate over the site. No new nuclear deal will bring to light, let alone shut down, this key node in the regime’s undimmed nuclear ambitions.

Every month Pickaxe remains intact gives Tehran more time to move equipment, rebuild enrichment capacity and shorten the path back to a nuclear weapon.

The president recognizes the urgency: “That’s where the action is. We’ll be hitting that area pretty soon and very heavily.”

Now he needs to follow through. Targeting it would shatter Tehran’s belief that one mountain can preserve its nuclear ambitions from American airpower.

Midnight Hammer showed that America’s most powerful Massive Ordnance Penetrator bunker busters could severely damage even a deeply buried facility like Fordow.

These weapons relied on smart tactics, precise targeting and fuses that enabled these weapons to drill sequentially through weak points, like ventilation shafts, before detonating to full effect.

That same operation also showed that blocking access to a site can be nearly as effective as burrowing into it.

With Iran’s highly enriched uranium sitting at Isfahan, in storage tunnels potentially beyond reach of bunker busters, salvos of low-flying Tomahawk cruise missiles were used to collapse the entrances and entrap the “nuclear dust” instead.

In the more than a year since these attacks, Iran has poked around but not reentered the site.

Striking Pickaxe could combine elements of what worked best in last summer’s operation, seeking both to maximize direct damage and minimize Iran’s ability to access it afterward.

The site was designed, and construction started, long before Midnight Hammer revealed innovations enabling the MOPs to create and exploit new structural vulnerabilities.

This would entail a mix of bunker busters, cruise missiles and possibly other munitions to attack Pickaxe at multiple points, and from multiple angles.

The facility’s ventilation shafts and tunnel entrances are key. Israeli airstrikes on other Iranian nuclear sites show that disabling their power supplies can add to the effectiveness.

What comes after the strikes would be equally important. Working with Israel and its incredible intelligence capabilities, the United States would need to monitor the site closely and make clear it will conduct follow-on attacks if Iran tries to access it.

Trump has already upended many of Iran’s beliefs about what American presidents will or won’t do.

Now he can confound the expectation that its nuclear program can survive US military action.

Jonathan Ruhe is a fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.

NEW YORK (AP) — — In a strategic move to navigate legal blocks, Paramount has agreed to postpone the finalization of its colossal $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery until next year. This decision comes amid ongoing legal scrutiny from 12 states challenging the merger, which they argue could jeopardize competition in the media landscape.

NOTE: The video is from a previous report.

Former President Donald Trump has issued a stern warning about the potential introduction of tariffs following a widespread outbreak of a parasite associated with ‘explosive diarrhea,’ which may be linked to Mexican lettuce.

During a White House press event, Trump asserted, “I believe the solution is implementing significant tariffs on Mexico because of this lettuce issue.”

His comments came in response to a surge in cyclosporiasis cases, now numbering 11,000 across 41 states, as health authorities urgently search for the source.

In addition, Trump renewed his threat of imposing heavy tariffs on Canada due to wildfires that have engulfed much of the northern United States in a haze of toxic smoke.

Public health experts have linked the outbreak of this foodborne parasite, which thrives in food or water contaminated with human waste, to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms, distributed to Taco Bell locations in nine states.

Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania are also now suggested to be affected, alongside Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.

Tests on lettuce from Taylor Farms’ manufacturing facility in Mexico have returned a false positive, however, a voluntary recall of the products is still in place.  

The business temporarily closed its Central Mexico site on Thursday.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr claimed on Tuesday that the outbreak was ‘under control.’

The FDA said Wednesday it was tracking another outbreak of the parasite that has sickened 72 people, in a separate cluster from the one sickening thousands and potentially linked to lettuce.

The agency revealed the number of cases but gave no further details, including the location of the patients or the potential source of their sickness.

The announcement of a new outbreak of cyclosporiasis suggests that the agency has identified a cluster of cases that are related to a common source.

It does not mean that the cases are unrelated to the main outbreak, but they may have been listed separately as they are believed to have been caused by a separate contaminated item.

Health officials are now recommending people wash their hands and ‘any fresh produce’ thoroughly before preparing food.

As washing is not guaranteed to remove the parasite, they are also advising cooking food to a temperature of at least 158F (70C) to kill the parasite.

Cyclosporiasis spreads when people eat food or drink water that has been contaminated with human feces.

It is ‘unlikely’ to spread directly from person to person, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), because it takes one to two weeks for the parasite to become infectious after passing into the environment.

Dr Luis Ostrosky, an infectious diseases expert at UTHealth Houston, said: ‘Cyclosporiasis spreads via the fecal-oral route, where fecal particles containing the parasite are passed to the mouth.

‘It typically does not transmit from person to person and does not spread in the way that we see with norovirus or the flu.

‘It takes one to two weeks after the parasite is passed in a bowel movement for it to become infectious, and many days to a few weeks after that exposure for symptoms to appear.’

Overall, the CDC has recorded nearly 11,000 suspected or confirmed cases of the infection this year, the most since 2019, when there was an outbreak linked to basil.

It has confirmed 4,100 cases of the infection and is investigating 7,400 others across 41 states. There have also been 308 hospitalizations, but no deaths have been reported.

Michigan is recording the most cases, at up to 2,100, followed by Illinois, Kentucky and Texas, all recording up to 160 cases.

In the major outbreak, the addition of four more states to the tally suggests the agency is beginning to connect cases in states, allowing them to home in on a potential source.

Caused by the microscopic parasite cyclospora, it is a gastrointestinal illness causing symptoms including watery and explosive diarrhea, cramping and a fever.

Patients become sick within a week of infection, which can make it difficult to identify the source.

Individuals suffering from the parasite may also feel they are getting better before symptoms suddenly become much worse again.

A spokesman for Taylor Farms said on Thursday: ‘We’ve commissioned independent experts to conduct a top-to-bottom review of food safety processes and protocols in our central Mexico facility. 

‘We continue to work with health authorities, customers, and independent farming partners to address this issue.’

Taco Bell has removed the lettuce from its supply chain.

A spokesman said last week: ‘Taco Bell has taken precautionary action, and we encourage all relevant restaurants, retailers, and foodservice operators to do the same.’

In a troubling development, a Pennsylvania man awaiting trial for the alleged sexual assaults of three underage girls now faces additional charges following an incident inside a local prison. The case has taken a new turn as he reportedly vandalized prison property.

Imarr Finley, age 25 and hailing from Harrisburg, has had a presence in the Dauphin County legal system since December 2024. Originally apprehended for allegedly abducting a 12-year-old girl on her route home from school, Finley was accused of taking her to his residence and sexually assaulting her, as detailed by court records accessed through Pennlive.com.

Beyond this grievous incident, Finley has been charged with the rape of two other minors. The victims, ages 17 and another between 13 and 14, were added to the record as reported by Pennlive.com, highlighting the gravity of the allegations against him.

The most recent charges emerged from a July 8 episode during which Finley allegedly shattered a window in the control room of the prison’s P block while exercising his recreation time out of his cell. This information was disclosed in a probable cause affidavit reviewed by Pennlive.com.

The affidavit, filed by the Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office, claimed two corrections officers saw Finley break the window, which caused $772 in damage.

Court records show Finley was charged on Thursday with institutional vandalism, a second-degree misdemeanor.

For that charge, he was arraigned on Thursday afternoon and a preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 4. News Media reached out to the prison for comment.

The first alleged rape occurred on Nov. 25, 2024, in the uptown Harrisburg area, according to police.

According to Pennlive.com, the girl told authorities that a man dressed in all black and a mask over his face was following her.

The man, who police say was Finley, got the girl to follow him to his house, where he allegedly raped her and threatened the girl’s family if she told anyone, Pennlive.com reported. Days later on Dec. 4, 2024, Finley was arrested by Harrisburg police after he fled out the second story window of a home and tried to flee by running across rooftops, according to authorities.

On March 23, 2026, Finley was charged in connection with the rape of a 13- or 14-year-old girl who he allegedly lured to his house with a fake Snapchat photo, Pennlive.com reported.

Four days later, he was charged with raping a 17-year-old girl after authorities said DNA evidence tied him to the crime, according to the outlet.

Finley is being held without bond and is due to appear in court for the rape charges on July 30.

The much-anticipated “Last Decision” this offseason attracted a staggering $229 million in bets from eager speculators, with some striking it rich.

The decision took everyone by surprise when news of James’ choice broke on Friday at around 11:30 a.m. ET, catching the world off guard.

According to industry insiders, this sequence of events turned out perfectly for astute computer programmers who thrive on unpredictability.

Prior to James’s announcement, analytics firm Kalshi gave Philadelphia a mere nine-percent probability of securing his commitment, illustrating just how unexpected the move was as James himself confirmed his intent to join the 76ers.

At precisely 11:30 a.m. ET, betting markets were inundated with wagers targeting an outcome that had already been revealed, reflecting the rapid response time of those involved.

One account cashed in huge, with a massive purchase of 26,381.33 contracts at $.09 per contract. This cost just $2,374.32 and profited $24,007.01 in a matter of seconds.

Another account got down 15,000 contracts at the same nine-cent cost per contract, totaling $1,350 and profiting $13,650.

The speed that you would need to make this happen is so quick, so steadfast that industry sources believe computer programmers are at the forefront of these lightning-fast trades.

The CFTC, which regulates Kalshi and other prediction markets, allows bots on the platform to automatically trade for account holders.

It’s an obscene amount of money, though, as inside those few minutes, $21,431.53 was wagered and $122,650 was won on the 76ers before fees on an outcome that had just been announced.

These computer traders likely use the Python programming language and access to the Kalshi API, which allows them to trade instantly, with a trigger defined by breaking news services like ESPN NBA insider Shams Charania and, in this case, James’ personal X account.

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The bettors that did wager big on the 76ers after James announced his destination are one thing, but the losers are everyone who followed the movement with the Miami Heat.

The Heat were favored to land James earlier this week, with a better than 50 percent chance to land him, while the Warriors were as high as 70 percent to land James after he announced his Lakers exit.

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In a surprising turn of events, Tony Romo, the iconic NFL figure now serving as a CBS sports analyst, found himself under arrest in Milwaukee on Thursday.

The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback was detained on charges related to operating a vehicle while intoxicated, according to booking information reviewed by the Daily Mail.

At the age of 46, Romo was photographed with a defiant smile during his mugshot, following his booking by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Office.

Law enforcement stopped the ex-quarterback as he drove south on I-43, specifically on a stretch of high-rise bridge, around 6 p.m. The exact make and model of the vehicle he was driving remain unknown.

Romo, who brings in an impressive $18 million annually for his commentary work with CBS, reportedly failed multiple sobriety tests before authorities took him into custody.

He was released from jail and is due in court on September 21. It was his first OWI offense. 

Police said the incident remains under investigation with no criminal charges filed. 

In Wisconsin, a first-offense OWI is generally a civil offense, not a criminal charge. The citation typically carries a fine ranging from $150 to $300. 

CBS did not immediately respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment.  

Romo spent his entire 13-season NFL career with the Cowboys, leading Dallas to four postseason appearances as the team’s starting quarterback between 2006 to 2015. 

However, despite earning four Pro Bowl nods during his time on the field, Romo failed to make it to the Super Bowl, never advancing past the divisional round. 

He lost his starting position to then-rookie Dak Prescott in 2016, retiring from football at the end of that season. 

After hanging up his cleats, Romo went on to become the lead color analyst for NFL on CBS. He will be entering his 10th season as a sportscaster this fall. 

The retired signal caller, who famously dated Jessica Simpson from 2007 to 2009, is married to Candice Crawford Romo, a former broadcast journalist and past Miss Missouri. They share three children. 

Romo, who grew up in Burlington, Wisconsin, is believed to have been in the Milwaukee area for the Wisconsin Amateur Championship.

The Cowboys icon has competed in the annual golf tournament for multiple years at West Bend Country Club, which is located around 37 miles outside of Milwaukee.

However, he tumbled down the leaderboard, finishing tied for 73rd after shooting a score of 35-over across the four rounds. 

The fourth and final round of the tournament took place on Thursday hours before Romo’s arrest. 

‘I’m competitive in both, I’m just better at football,’ he told TMJ4 News during the tournament. ‘It’s the challenge of it. It’s as tough as your gonna play.’

Romo graduated from Burlington High School, south of Milwaukee and West Bend Country Club. 

He was the first student athlete at the school to be named all-state in three sports –  football, basketball and golf. 

The Burlington Area School District later named a field former NFL star in February 2020. 

Romo’s arrest comes almost a year after his fellow former quarterback and analyst Mark Sanchez was detained for allegedly attacking a truck driver.

The former New York Jets quarterback is facing multiple criminal charges after being accused of assaulting 69-year-old Perry Tole in Indianapolis back in October.

During an alleged near-fatal brawl with Tole, Sanchez, 39, suffered multiple stab wounds to his upper right torso.

The ex-signal caller – who was fired from his job as a Fox Sports analyst – may have been under the influence of cocaine, fentanyl, marijuana and alcohol , according to a document filed by Tole’s attorneys in a related federal lawsuit.

Sanchez, who has been married to wife Perry Mattfeld since 2023, faces counts of felony battery as well as misdemeanor public intoxication and unauthorized entry of a vehicle.

The former Jets first-round draft pick was in Indianapolis to cover the Colts’ game against the Las Vegas Raiders for Fox the following day when the altercation with Tole occurred.

After briefly being booked into jail upon his release from hospital, he was fired by the network in early November.