The unidentified blonde recently seen appearing close with Kevin Costner has been named as Jennifer Milburn, a glamorous lifestyle coach who is 31 years younger than the Hollywood actor and has ties to his vast Aspen property.

The Daily Mail has identified Milburn, 40, as the woman photographed accompanying the twice-divorced 71-year-old star during a supermarket trip near his $145 million California estate earlier this month.

Costner and Milburn were photographed at an Albertsons in Santa Barbara, filling their cart with steaks, vegetables, grapefruit juice and cereal. Witnesses said the pair appeared “extremely affectionate” while shopping.

Milburn, meanwhile, has done little to put an end to questions surrounding her apparent relationship with the actor.

When reached by the Daily Mail, she confirmed that she was the woman seen with Costner but ended the call when asked whether the two were romantically involved.

Although the pair were spotted together in California, their apparent connection may have originated in Colorado, where Costner has long-standing ties.

Milburn has substantial links to the exclusive Rocky Mountain enclave where Costner owns his spectacular 160-acre Dunbar Ranch.

A former Delta flight attendant, Milburn spent almost six years at celebrity-favored western retailer Kemo Sabe in Aspen, modeled for local brands and uses the Instagram handle ‘@theaspenjenn’.

Social media also offers a glimpse into her part-time modeling career in the exclusive ski resort town, where she can be seen posing on horseback and sprawling ranches for a local jeans brand. 

Currently, she has a remote position as director of partnerships for a firm called Simon Sinek’s The Optimism Company, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Dubbed ‘the ultimate luxury retreat’, Costner’s Dunbar Ranch is so vast it’s been likened to a mini town. The property has 12 bedrooms and eight bathrooms, and can comfortably sleep 27 people. 

He purchased the land in 2000 before transforming it into a picturesque paradise. 

The television star is known to split his time between his homes in California and Colorado – where he has been seen mingling with other A-listers at glitzy star-studded parties over the winter holidays. 

He was previously spotted enjoying drinks with Jennifer Lopez at hotspot Kemo Sabe – where Milburn once worked. 

Costner’s links to Milburn come after the twice-divorced Yellowstone star was reported last year to have quietly found love again with filmmaker Kelly Noonan Gores, in what sources described at the time as a ‘private and casual’ romance.

His apparent relationship with Noonan Gores, ex-wife of billionaire Alex Gores, was first revealed in August 2025 after the two spent time together in Aspen. 

It was reported they met through mutual friends, with US Weekly quoting a source saying: ‘After such a public and expensive divorce, he’s being cautious.’

They ‘see each other when schedules allow, often spending time at his Santa Barbara estate’ and ‘love dinners at home, walks on the beach and quiet nights in,’ the source said at the time. 

Another claimed that Costner was ‘not looking for a serious relationship or marriage any time soon.’

Yet his recent outing with Milburn has now fueled fresh speculation that he has a new woman in his life. 

Costner and Milburn were seen in exclusive Daily Mail photos getting cozy during the September trip to the supermarket. 

They made no apparent attempt to keep the outing under wraps, with a casually-dressed Costner smiling alongside his female companion as she wheeled the cart around the store.

At one point, Milburn even took the lead by pointing out their preferences at a meat counter.

They were later seen headed back to Costner’s gray Mercedes-Benz in the parking lot, where the actor dutifully returned the shopping cart. 

Their brief supermarket sweep occurred only a few miles from Santa Barbara County Court, where Costner’s bitter divorce battle with ex-wife Christine Baumgartner played out in 2023. 

The divorce became final in February 2024 after an eye-popping battle over cash and assets.  

The legal battle revealed astonishing household spending as Baumgartner, who filed for the divorce, at one point demanded $248,000 a month for support of children Cayden, now 19, Hayes, 17, and 16-year-old Grace. 

Costner was ultimately ordered to pay Baumgartner, now remarried, $63,209 in monthly child support for their three children and $1.5 million to her personally. 

Court documents also revealed Costner’s Aspen compound cost $1,964,294 to operate in 2022. 

The property has two large lakes and is equipped with a dozen ATVs and snowmobiles, which the children had enjoyed riding, the papers stated.  

The US conflict with Iran is set to move into a “much different phase in a couple of months,” Vice President JD Vance told The Post in an exclusive interview, echoing President Trump’s assessment that the war would end “right after” the midterm elections following months of reciprocal strikes by Washington and Tehran.

Speaking aboard Air Force Two on Monday, Vance said the Iranian regime would keep losing its grip on the Strait of Hormuz ahead of the election. Traffic through the vital global energy corridor, he said, has “returned to well over 50% of normal traffic.”

“We can’t predict the future, but I think the president is right to say that this thing will enter a much different phase in a couple of months,” Vance said. “He’s also the commander in chief, so he’s the person who determines … when conflicts start and when they stop.”

Vance acknowledged growing public frustration over the Iran war but argued that the United States is not currently carrying out offensive operations.

“But what is happening is that the Iranians are occasionally shooting at commercial shipping, usually not successfully,” Vance said.

Navy SEALs have cleared mines from much of the Strait of Hormuz over the past four months, though vessel crossings remain well below pre-war levels.

Shipping trackers recorded just 11 commercial vessels passing through the strait in the past 24 hours. Before the war, an average of 130 ships a day crossed the waterway separating Oman and Iran.

For months, however, the US has quietly provided escorts for commercial oil tankers operating with their transponders switched off to avoid Iranian attacks. Those so-called “dark” missions are difficult to capture in publicly available shipping data.

About 20% of the world’s seaborne oil supply passes through the Strait of Hormuz, making the route one of the most consequential energy chokepoints on the planet.

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The US has significantly degraded Iran’s missile and drone capabilities, but Tehran continues to intermittently target commercial vessels in the strait and launch attacks against American military bases across the Middle East.

Gulf allies have also been targeted, with Trump recently suggesting last weekend that damage to Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline was caused by Iranian drones.

American forces have also targeted Iranian oil tankers, while the US Treasury has sanctioned banks and other entities keeping the regime’s war machine afloat financially.

“There are really two phases to this thing, and the first phase is done,” Vance continued. “The first phase was destroy the nuclear program, destroy their conventional military, destroy their ability to project power in a way that they were able to even a couple of years ago.”

“And then the second phase of this is ensure that they’re not able to rebuild and try to maintain as much global stability in the wake of that,” he also said.

Vance had been the architect of a Memorandum of Understanding in mid-June between the US and Iran that initiated a cease-fire to pursue negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program and wind down the conflict.

It’s unclear whether Trump will ramp up attacks after the midterm elections to finish the job, or find that Iran is more agreeable to make a deal.

Trump told reporters last Wednesday before heading to the Republican midterm convention in Dallas that “right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward.”

“I think the war will end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer,” he added.

Often described as the “Red-Green Alliance,” the growing political alignment between Europe’s far-left parties and Islamist groups is exerting greater influence on policymaking, especially on Israel. Critics say the partnership is contributing to an alarming increase in antisemitism across the continent.

As the number of Muslim voters rises across Europe, parties on the left and far left are increasingly responding to the priorities of a voting bloc that has become more politically significant.

In the U.K. last week, critics accused the left-wing Labour government of imposing sanctions on Israel in an effort to regain Muslim voters who had shifted toward the far-left, anti-Israel Green and Independent parties. Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat described the sanctions announcement as “performative politics.”

In Sweden’s parliamentary elections on Sunday, exit polling from the state broadcaster indicated that votes cast by non-European Swedes had given a left-wing alliance a slim three-seat advantage over a right-leaning coalition led by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.

One Swedish political researcher, Tobias Hübinette, pointed to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York City and said that the numbers in the Swedish election show that this “election meant a ‘Mamdanification’ of urban Sweden, and the gap between city and country is now larger than ever before,” he wrote on X.

“They should be in disagreement,” Simone Rodan-Benzaquen, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ senior envoy to Europe, told News Media. “But the Islamists are very capable of covering that up for political purposes… The antisemitism that we have today, in particular in Western Europe, is definitely fed far more (by) the far left’s discourse.”

Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society in the U.K., said Europe has spent a decade focusing much of its concern on the far right. While he said that scrutiny is justified, it has created a blind spot elsewhere. “Antisemitism is not less dangerous because it arrives waving a progressive banner,” Mendoza said.

Janek Treiber, a research fellow at Germany’s Dresden University of Technology, said there is “indeed an intriguing alliance between the supposedly progressive left and regressive forces within Islamism.” Speaking to News Media, he said the shared element is “a kind of victimization narrative.” For left-wing supporters of the Palestinian cause, he said, Muslims are viewed as oppressed while the West, including Israel, is cast as the oppressor. “Whether Muslims hold conservative-religious views in this context is irrelevant,” he said.

Berlin voters will go to the polls this Sunday, with surveys showing the far-left Die Linke party — whose name translates literally as “The Left” — two points ahead of the center-right Christian Democratic Union.

“In Berlin, a party polling at the top of the field has factions that share platforms, demonstrations and slogans with networks the German security services themselves link to Hamas and the PFLP,” Mendoza claimed. “When ‘Death to the IDF’ and ‘Intifada’ are chanted at an election event, and the response from parts of the party is to defend the man who led them, the red line has been erased, not crossed.”

Rodan-Benzaquen says that while Germany’s political “firewall” against far-right parties like the AfD “seems to work more or less on the right, it doesn’t on the left,” because, “there is a perception that whatever comes from the left, even the far-left, is not morally as repugnant as anything that comes from the right.”

Germany and the U.K. are not alone. The far-left Sumar Party in Spain is part of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s ruling coalition. Their support in the last election was strongest in areas with high Muslim populations, with party members attending demonstrations with Muslim Brotherhood-adjacent groups and Gaza protests organized by Islamist-leaning networks. Members have also pushed for Spain to recognize a Palestinian state while also referring to Israel as an “apartheid state.” Spain recognized a Palestinian state in 2024.

The far-left La France Insoumise (LFI) Party in France has been accused by academics and ministers of “Islamo‑leftism” after their de facto leader, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, refused to call Hamas a terrorist organization and party members marched with Islamist-linked NGOs during Gaza protests. The LFI’s popularity has been on the rise in polling ahead of next year’s presidential election and, according to French newspaper Le Monde, the LFI’s electoral strength lies in Muslim-majority suburban districts.

Israeli Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka recently told News Media that, “The way [LFI leader] Jean-Luc Mélenchon speaks in front of a crowd reminds me of Hitler. The way he uses the idea of uniting against one enemy by speaking of Israel is similar to the way Hitler used to speak about the Jews.”

Commenting on the sanctions imposed by the U.K. government on Israel, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis called the announcement on X “a truly dark day for British Jews.” His statement continued in part, “Gesture politics of this kind feeds into an increasingly hostile discourse about Israel,” he wrote, warning that the cumulative effect of such policies could “further embolden those, at home and abroad, who use hatred as a weapon against Jews.”

Pointing to the U.K., Rodan-Benzaquen said the alliance grew while Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour Party leader. “You have this far left anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, opposition to American power and, of course, to Israel itself. An alliance with Islamist organizations and movements that sort of adopt a common language, despite the fact that on many topics they are in certain disagreement… They have basically turned themselves from a party that cared about class, that cared about improving (lives), social rights, etcetera, into a party that is basically looking at identity politics and is trying to appeal to certain voters.”

She said the red-green alliance is nothing new. “We’ve seen it for a long time. We’ve actually seen it in the Islamic Republic of Iran when the Islamic Revolution happened.”

Europe’s Muslim population is estimated to be 45–46 million, up by 15.9% from 2010, based on Pew Research Center projections. That same study revealed the population of European Jewry had fallen to under 1.3 million — down 8% from 2010. 

Rodan-Benzaquen says of European Jews, “electorally, we don’t weigh,” so they have again become a political football. She says when left and far-left parties say, “Oh, we want to fight against antisemitism. The only reason why they’re saying it is because it’s a tool to attack the far-right.”

With summer trips ending, students returning to classrooms and cooler weather approaching, Americans are settling back into familiar fall routines.

Health experts say one important item should be added to that autumn checklist: getting an annual flu shot.

The previous US respiratory season was marked by a “super flu” wave fueled by subclade K, a heavily mutated form of the Influenza A (H3N2) virus that triggered a swift and severe rise in cases across the country.

During the 2025-2026 respiratory season, there were at least 32 million flu illnesses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The virus was also linked to roughly 390,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths.

Influenza, better known as the flu, is among the nation’s most widespread and contagious respiratory illnesses, affecting about eight percent of Americans annually.

It can bring on body aches, headaches, fever and coughing. In some cases, however, the infection can progress to serious complications, including pneumonia and influenza-associated encephalopathy (IAE), a severe condition involving brain dysfunction.

Doctors advise receiving a flu vaccine every year to reduce the risk of infection. But with flu season approaching, the question is when it begins — and whether it is possible to get vaccinated too soon.

According to the CDC, flu season typically starts in October, reaches its highest levels from December through February and declines by spring. As of September 5, flu activity remained minimal across the US.

Because the vaccine generally offers protection for around six to eight months, experts say the timing of a shot is important. Vaccination too early could mean that protection fades before the flu season has finished.

While pharmacies start stocking the vaccine in August and promoting it in September, doctors agree these months are still too early to get the shot. 

October is the ideal month to get vaccinated, with the CDC recommending vaccination by Halloween for the upcoming 2026-2027 respiratory season. 

‘October is when I recommend getting the vaccine as there is more actual influenza activity then – there is very little now,’ Infectious disease expert Dr Amesh Adalja, told Prevention.com.

‘The vaccine will last further into the season if administered in October,’ Adalja added.

One exception for an early flu shot is children under eight years old who have never received one – as they would need two doses spaced apart to build immunity.

Additionally, people at high risk of flu complications, such as those with asthma, may want to consider getting vaccinated earlier. 

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There are three different flu virus strains that cause illness: influenza types A, B and C.

Influenza type A can infect people and animals, while type B is usually found only in humans and is generally associated with less severe infections. 

Type C occurs much less frequently than A and B and causes minor illness in humans.

The seasonal flu shot, which is updated every year as the virus mutates, protects against influenza types A and B, as these are the most common and severe strains.

Symptoms of the flu include fever, cough, sore throat, stuffy nose, headaches and fatigue. While most people recover within a week, some may develop complications such as pneumonia, which can be life-threatening and require medical treatment.  

The flu shot is one of the most effective preventative measures against infection, reducing the risk of doctor visits by 34 percent and the risk of hospitalization by 30 percent per the CDC, but it can take up to two weeks for the body to develop antibodies after receiving the vaccination.

Because of this, doctors recommend getting the shot a few weeks before an event or gathering where large numbers of people will be indoors.

Anyone can catch the flu, but those most susceptible include people 65 years and older, those with chronic medical conditions, pregnant women, and children under five. 

Last year’s dominant strain, dubbed the ‘super flu,’ was brand new to people’s immune systems, making them highly vulnerable and at an increased risk of severe, hospitalizing illness. 

While symptoms were the same as other flu strains, experts warned the ‘super flu’ variant was causing more severe illness, especially in children, with signs including week-long fevers and a cough that led to trouble breathing. 

Super flu’s symptoms appear to be similar to previous influenza A strains, though doctors have noted they could be more severe.

Health officials recommend regular handwashing and avoiding contact with people who have flu-like symptoms.

Treatment includes rest, staying hydrated, taking over the counter medication such as Mucinex, or in severe cases, prescription antivirals such as Tamilflu. 

Community activists have launched a “DSA: Tell the Truth” campaign aimed at what they describe as hypocrisy within the Democratic Socialists of America, following The Post’s report questioning co-chair Gustavo Gordillo’s working-class image.

New York City public-housing residents and clergy members gathered in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Monday to criticize the DSA, branding it the “double standards of America.” Demonstrators also renewed demands that Gordillo resign, accusing him of presenting himself as the child of a working-class immigrant family despite what they say is a more privileged upbringing.

Gordillo, 38, is the son of a Miami millionaire who purchased him a $1.5 million townhouse, according to The Post.

“This is the launch,” civil rights leader Rev. Kevin McCall said during Monday’s rally. “This is the launch of more to come. Gustavo is not off the hook. DSA is not off the hook. We’re going to be in front of your houses. We’re going to be in front of your meetings to tell them that Gustavo got to go.”

“This is not about doxing anybody,” McCall added. “We don’t want liars.”

The Democratic Socialists of America has drawn increased attention since Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a member of the left-wing organization, became the first socialist to take up residence at Gracie Mansion.

Gordillo, a Yale graduate, received a Brooklyn townhouse from his wealthy father, who also allegedly covered $1.4 million in renovation costs. His father, Gustavo E. Gordillo, founded and serves as CEO of DraftPros, a telecommunications company valued at $90 million whose clients include AT&T and Verizon.

Despite that background, critics say the DSA co-chair has cultivated a blue-collar identity while advocating for a $95,000 salary for himself and fellow co-chair Grace Mausser, arguing that the organization’s socialist agenda requires full-time work.

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Gordillo had described himself as having been raised by struggling Peruvian immigrants, saying his mother cleaned homes and his father worked flipping burgers at Wendy’s.

That portrayal came under scrutiny after reports surfaced detailing his family’s wealth and financial support.

Organizers of “DSA: Tell the Truth” accused the socialist party of hypocrisy, and said the group can’t credibly claim to be champions of public housing tenants, working-class residents or people of color.

“We want to make sure that Gustavo will not put us in the back of the bus by excluding black and brown people from policymaking,” McCall said. “When you’re talking about NYCHA residents, there are over 500,000 residents who live in New York City Housing Authority that the DSA have no regard for.

“There are black people, Latino people, Hispanic people that the DSA don’t have regard for,” he said. “He must resign. He must resign. He must resign.” 

Gordillo did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday.

Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy

Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were 19-year-old high school students living with their mother when masked men allegedly arrived in the dead of night and took them away.

The twin sisters were pulled from their beds with bags placed over their heads roughly a month after participating in anti-regime demonstrations in Isfahan, according to their U.S.-based cousin. Their relatives said authorities offered no explanation, prompting the family to spend months searching courthouses, hospitals and government agencies for any sign of where the young women had been taken.

It was four months before their mother, Marzieh Nourmohammadi, was permitted to visit them at Dowlatabad Prison. By then, she could scarcely recognize her daughters.

Masoud Nourmohammadi, the sisters’ cousin, told The Guardian that Taraneh and Romina had severely bruised and swollen faces, along with injuries to their hands, elbows and feet. He said they had also lost substantial amounts of hair after guards allegedly pulled them by it while transferring them between cells. During the prison visit, their mother learned the twins had been kept in solitary confinement, he said.

Now 20, Taraneh Rahimi is facing execution over allegations tied to the January protests. Her twin, Romina, could remain behind bars for decades as Iran’s use of the death penalty rises sharply.

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that Branch 1 of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court sentenced Taraneh to death, as well as 11 years in prison. Romina received a 36-year prison term. The rulings are preliminary and remain subject to further legal proceedings.

The sisters are among 16 people charged in the case known as the “Isfahan Shohada Square” case. According to HRANA, 10 defendants were handed death sentences, while the group collectively received 256 years of prison terms.

Their family maintains that the alleged mistreatment in custody was aimed at compelling the sisters to confess.

Nourmohammadi told The Guardian that Taraneh was threatened that prison guards would rape Romina in front of her unless she signed a confession. The outlet reported that Taraneh later told the court that admissions attributed to her had been obtained through torture. Her mother was not permitted to attend the trial, according to the family.

Radio Farda separately reported, citing Nourmohammadi, that the sisters suffered physical and psychological abuse and were forced to confess to accusations they deny. The Hana Human Rights Organization told News Media they have verified the torture allegations.

Concerns about torture extend beyond the sisters. HRANA reported that another defendant in the same case, Ahmadreza Saeidi, told judges during the hearing that the investigating judge personally used an electric stun gun on his neck and genitals. Defense lawyers also reportedly complained that they had not been given access to substantial portions of the case file or adequate time to examine evidence before trial.

The sentences come as rights organizations document a sharp rise in executions across Iran.

The Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran documented 901 executions during the first seven months of 2026, including 56 people executed on political or national-security charges.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, Iran program senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told News Media that the executions should be viewed as part of a broader campaign by Tehran to suppress dissent at home.

“Despite the war in the region, despite the drone war, the missile war, the war over the Strait of Hormuz, the real war is the one that’s happening on a day-to-day basis inside the Islamic Republic,” Ben Taleblu said. “The Islamic Republic is quite literally cracking skulls, cracking down on civil society, on dissidents, on protesters.”

Among those imprisoned in Iran’s broader crackdown is Seyed Ahmad Seyedabdollahi, a 32-year-old psychologist whose case News Media reported in August.

Seyedabdollahi posted an English-language video on Jan. 4 appealing directly to President Donald Trump to support Iranian protesters, according to his relatives and News Media’s previous reporting. He was arrested 10 days later and ultimately sentenced to seven months in prison and barred from government and public services for five years.

His relatives told News Media that Iranian authorities later pressured him to record another video insulting Trump and Americans and alleged that he was subjected to solitary confinement and torture.

The Hana Human Rights Organization reported Aug. 9 that Seyedabdollahi had been held in Borujen Prison since July 7 and that authorities opened a second case against him on a charge of “propaganda against the system of the Islamic Republic.” Hana also confirmed that he was serving a seven-month sentence and had received a five-year disqualification from public and governmental services.

His relatives confirmed to News Media that authorities have continued pressuring him to say he was a “foreign agent” paid by the U.S. government. They also said authorities revoked his professional license, adding financial pressure on his family.

Ben Taleblu said Tehran has followed a similar pattern after previous periods of external conflict, turning its attention inward against perceived opponents.

“We saw this trend in the aftermath of the 12-day war as well,” Ben Taleblu said. “Lose a war abroad, come home and pretend like you’re the victor.”

“Simply here, the Islamic Republic is continuing the longest war it’s ever fought, which is the 47-year war against the Iranian people,” he added.

Wednesday marks four years since the Sept. 16, 2022, death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was detained three days earlier by Iran’s morality police over what authorities described as “improper hijab.” Her death sparked nationwide protests that became known internationally as the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. The U.N. said reports that Amini had been beaten in custody warranted an independent investigation, while Iranian authorities maintained that she died of “natural causes.”

The 2022 uprising was itself part of a longer cycle of unrest. Nationwide demonstrations beginning in December 2017 rapidly spread across Iran and represented the largest challenge to the government since the 2009 Green Movement. The 2017-18 protests were followed by another major nationwide wave in 2019 and then the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.

Ben Taleblu argued that whenever another major protest movement emerges, Western governments should be prepared to help Iranians communicate with one another and the outside world, particularly when authorities shut down internet access.

“We know every single time another major protest is happening, the way the regime cracks down is to first turn off the internet,” he said. “That means the regime fears what comes of coordination between Iranians and fears what comes of when the Iranians are able to send their message outside to the international community.”

“The partners of the Iranian people, America, Israel, the West, these are largely all cyber superpowers,” Ben Taleblu said. “We should not let the Iranian people continue to die in the darkness.”