California authorities say they have found a vehicle linked to a suspect as the search continues for a father and his 14-year-old daughter, whom he is accused of impregnating.

The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that deputies searching along the central California coast located a white Nissan Altima with no license plates believed to be connected to 38-year-old Sergio Galvez Perez.

Investigators believe Perez was driving the car when he allegedly abandoned the newborn he had with his teenage daughter on the side of a road.

The infant, referred to by authorities as “Baby Angelita,” was discovered on August 1 in the 100 block of Struve Road in north Monterey County. A post-mortem forensic examination found signs of traumatic injury.

Perez and his daughter, Diana Galvez Ortega, were last seen on August 4. An Amber Alert was later issued for the 14-year-old over Labor Day weekend, with police accusing Perez of hiding her from authorities.

Perez is now wanted on suspicion of incest, lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14, lewd acts with a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse, child concealment and child endangerment.

‘These allegations are extremely serious and are an important part of why locating Diana and ensuring her safety and well-being remain a priority,’ the sheriff’s office said in a statement.

Officials had previously said there was a warrant out for the teenager’s arrest on suspicion of murder, but last week the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said no charging decision has been made.

‘We recognize that the 14-year-old is a victim of her father’s abuse. No child should ever have to endure such horrific circumstances,’ the District Attorney’s Office said on September 2, noting: ‘The responsibility for getting a child to safety does not rest on the child.’

‘Our priority is to ensure that this young girl is safe and has access to the support and services she needs,’ it continued. ‘If she is located, our District Attorney victim advocates and partner agencies are ready to assist her, connect her with resources and help ensure that she has the support she needs.’

Sheriff Tina Nieto also urged Perez to turn himself in at a news conference on Monday.

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‘We need Sergio Galvez Perez to stop hiding and face the charges against him,’ she said.

Authorities have previously arrested the mother of the 14-year-old, Ofelia Garcia Ortega, 36, a resident of Castroville/Salinas, on suspicion of child endangerment. Ortega has been released from the Monterey County Jail on bail and prosecutors are now reviewing the potential charges against her.

Monterey County Sheriff’s Office public information commander, Andres Rosas, told the Daily Mail that information on whether Ortega has denied her involvement or knowledge of the case cannot be released due to the ‘ongoing investigation.’ 

But the charges against Ortega are not connected to the infant’s death or the alleged abuse of her daughter, according to CNN. 

As authorities now continue to search for Perez and his daughter, they have used controversial Flock cameras – which Nieto said made ‘good police work more effective.’

Within 53 hours, investigators were able to obtain information identifying the involved suspects and track a vehicle of interest, she noted.

The sheriff’s office has also received hundreds of calls, emails and messages related to the case since the Amber Alert was issued over the weekend.

Officials said they are grateful to the community members who have shared information and remained vigilant, but said they cannot release certain details without potentially jeopardizing the investigation and efforts to locate Ortega.

In the meantime, authorities ask the community to remain on the lookout for Perez and Ortega. They have described Perez as 5-foot-5-inches tall, weighing roughly 170 pounds with black hair and brown eyes, while Ortega is described as 4-foot-10-inches tall, weighing 100 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

However, the sheriff’s office said, anybody who sees Perez or Ortega should not approach them and should instead call 911 immediately.

Jimmy Kimmel was back on television last night after a two-month summer hiatus, returning just as Page Six reported that “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is expected to come to an end after next season.

“His contract is not getting extended,” a source told the outlet, with the late-night show reportedly set to sign off in May 2027 after a 24-year run on the air.

As speculation over the future of his ABC program made the rounds, Kimmel leaned into familiar territory: a sharp, politically loaded monologue aimed at Donald Trump.

“Donald Trump and I have one thing in common. We both accomplished nothing all summer long,” Kimmel said, taking shots at the 47th president over the war with Iran, gas prices and inflation. He also claimed Trump was trying to “keep us from voting in the midterms.”

The punchlines, such as they were, followed.

(An ABC spokesperson later claimed Page Six’s “information is inaccurate.”)

What a metamorphosis Kimmel has undergone in that nearly a quarter century. He went from slightly chubby, sarcastic everyman to a bitter partisan preacher, repeatedly delivering the same sanctimonious sermon: orange man bad.

He has long ceased being entertaining. And a show like that sure is costly. Page Six reported ABC honchos has “been offering veteran execs early retirement packages as part of restructuring and cost-cutting across the company.”

Remember when late night television was a humorous and breezy format that helped us unwind before we met Mr. Sandman?

The jokes were topical and had broad appeal while taking lighthearted hits at both sides of the political aisle.

Then Trump was elected in 2016 and Kimmel and his then CBS counterpart Stephen Colbert turned their shows into MSNBC-after-dark, ranting against the right while explicitly elevating Dem politicians.

Want to understand Kimmel’s level of self-importance? Just look at what his wife and executive producer Molly McNearney said last year on the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast about losing relationships with relatives because they voted for Trump.

“It hurts me so much … my husband is out there fighting this man, and to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family,”

Yes, the pair believed Kimmel — whose literal job was to read jokes off a teleprompter and make amusing chatter with celebrities — was the battle-hardened leader of the Trump Resistance.

Kimmel and Colbert forgot their jobs were to entertain, not alienate.

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That’s not to say Trump doesn’t give them fodder with his ridiculous rants and trolling campaigns like renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America.

However, when it came to Democrats, Kimmel and his late night hosts ignore all of the insane characters and obvious jokes they’re serving up on a platter.

In fact, Kimmel had now disgraced ex-Congressman Eric Swalwell on his show last November to announce his bid for California Governor. When the horny pol went down in a flaming pile of sexual misconduct accusations, Kimmel suddenly became shy.

Crickets.

And Biden? He was a bumbling old man with a former crackhead son who impregnated a stripper. The family denied the baby’s existence until being shamed into acknowledging her along with the rest of the grandchildren.

The jokes write themselves. But any mention of the Biden family scandals ended with Kimmel making Trump the punchline.

Instead Kimmel decided to go after a segment of the American people. In 2021, he said those who didn’t get the covid jab shouldn’t get a hospital bed.

“Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right on in,” he said adding, “We’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.

So, who was watching this show?

Barely anyone. But the out of touch Hollywood establishment kept making arguments for its cultural worth.

Late night has long been dead, first suffering from cord cutting and a balkanized media landscape. Then it was bludgeoned to death by the likes of Trump obsessed Kimmel and Colbert.

Colbert’s show was reportedly losing $40 million a year before it was taken off air in May. He did not go quietly.

We had to endure his never-ending goodbye tour, where his fellow celebs feted him like some sort of First Amendment martyr. In reality, he was just costing the network tons of money.

Presumably, we can expect the same protracted farewell from Kimmel.

But I’ll always remember Kimmel as a man who allowed a Big Apple-developer-turned-president to become his entire personality.

DALLAS (WLS) — The Illinois governor’s race moved into Texas on Wednesday, with Republican challenger Darren Bailey and Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker both making appearances in Dallas ahead of the midterm Republican convention.

Bailey headed to the American Airlines Center, where Republicans were gearing up for an event some party members have called “Trump-a-palooza.” Images of President Donald Trump lined the venue’s hallways, and Trump was scheduled to give the keynote speech Wednesday night before returning for the closing address Thursday. Bailey and his running mate, Aaron Del Mar, were set to join the Illinois delegation.

“We’re working our tails off in Illinois, but we just we need more help. We need to get the message out,” Bailey said. “So that really is the prime focus of coming down here to Dallas to find those people and have those conversations who will understand and partner with us to help get this message out.”

Bailey also said fundraising is part of the purpose of his trip.

Pritzker, meanwhile, joined Texas Democrats in an effort to push back against the convention’s message while taking aim at Trump and Republican policies.

“I care a great deal about what happens in Texas. Voters everywhere in the country should care about what happens in Texas,” Pritzker said. “So I’m pleased to be here for that reason. If I can advance the cause, that’s why I should stand here.”

ABC7 Chicago political analyst Laura Washington said Pritzker’s presence reflects broader ambitions.

“JB Pritzker is there because he is probably running for president, and he wants to enhance his national stature and be in a place that’s a key race and a key location for Democrats at a time when he’s supporting Democrats nationally,” she said.

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Pritzker recently launched a political action committee called Ready for the Fight, seeding it with $20 million of his own money to oppose “Make-America-Great-Again”-aligned candidates in Texas and other states. He downplayed any future plans beyond his current campaign.

“First of all, I’m running for reelection as governor, and I do want to serve as governor of the state of Illinois,” Pritzker said. “And any decisions that get made after that are going to be about whatever’s best for the people of our state.”

Bailey, meanwhile, embraced the convention but kept distance from Trump, whose poll numbers have dipped.

“Donald Trump being president has nothing to do with Darren Bailey being governor. It really doesn’t,” Bailey said.

Washington said Bailey faces a delicate balance.

“Donald Trump’s going to be the star of this convention; so he’s going to have to do a balancing act in terms of trying to woo Republican support while also keeping some distance from the president,” she said.

Manhattan sex worker pleads guilty in fentanyl deaths of three clients

A Manhattan sex worker accused of killing three clients by giving them fentanyl-laced drugs as part of a robbery scheme pleaded guilty Tuesday, prosecutors said.

Tabitha Bundrick, 39, admitted that between April 2023 and February 2024 she provided customers with drugs containing the powerful synthetic opioid before stealing their belongings, including cell phones, sneakers, cash and watches, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

“The defendant knowingly killed three people by providing them fentanyl-laced drugs,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. “As they lay unconscious, she robbed her victims and left them to die. In several instances, the victims’ bodies were found by their friends or family members.”

Bundrick showed a “shocking indifference” to the lives of her victims, Bragg said.

She is expected to be sentenced to 27 years to life for three counts of second-degree murder and one count of second-degree assault.

Bundrick’s crimes began on April 30, 2023, when she met Mario Paullan, 42, and his friend on the street and offered to sell them soap. She then offered to have sex with them for money and took them to an apartment she broke into, prosecutors said.

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After taking the fentanyl-laced drugs she gave them, Paullan’s friend woke up to find him dead the next morning and their belongings missing, authorities said.

Months later, she met Miguel Navez, 39, and gave him drugs at his apartment. He was found three days later by his brother, with his belongings also stolen.

The third incident occurred on Feb. 25, 2024, when Abrihan Fernandez, 34, died in his apartment. Bundrick was caught entering and exiting the Upper Manhattan apartment several times with large bags.

She is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 6.

President Donald Trump has again predicted that the war with Iran will soon come to an end, making the remark while taking questions from reporters on the tarmac outside Air Force One.

“I think the war’s going to immediately end after the election,” Trump said Wednesday as he headed to the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas.

He went on to say he believes the Iranians “can’t hold out any longer.”

In typical Trump fashion, the president is scheduled to address the Dallas convention on both nights.

Still, the lineup of attendees offers a revealing snapshot of Trump’s sharply declining popularity.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is not speaking, a snub that follows Trump’s frustration with the South Dakotan over stalled pieces of his agenda, even as other House and Senate leaders were handed slots.

Several candidates in the country’s most competitive races are also skipping the main stage, among them Maine’s Republican Senator Susan Collins, Congresswoman Ashley Hinson who is running for the US Senate in Iowa, and John E Sununu, the Republican nominee trying to flip New Hampshire’s Senate seat red.

Most prognosticators expect Democrats to win back the US House of Representatives, but the Senate will be tougher with battleground races in Maine, Ohio, Michigan and Alaska set to determine control.

Trump’s own trip to Texas was delayed Wednesday after his new Qatari-gifted Air Force One deployed its emergency evacuation slide.

Pressed on whether the aircraft was safe to fly, Trump responded: ‘Yeah, I am, or I wouldn’t be on it.’

Minutes after the oddity unfolded, the slide was reportedly seen being taken away from the new plane gifted to Trump from Qatar.

After speaking with the press for a prolonged period as the slide was being dealt with, the President boarded the plane as the cameras were still rolling. 

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The Iran war has now lasted more than six months and claimed the lives of 18 American service members.

Vice President JD Vance was pressed about the case of one Air Force widow at Thursday’s White House briefing, when a CNN reporter asked him to make sure the family received its benefits.

The widow of a US soldier killed in the Iran war shared online that she was told her family would miss out on combat benefits because the Pentagon, under Pete Hegseth’s leadership, does not officially classify the conflict as a war.

Libby Klinner said that when she questioned her husband’s final paycheck, the officer assigned to support her after his death told her the family would not receive hazard pay or combat-related tax breaks because ‘we were not at war.’

Her husband, Major Alex Klinner, 33, died on March 12 when a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq while supporting US operations against Iran. The Alabama-based airman served with the 99th Air Refueling Squadron and was among six crew members killed in the crash.

He left behind three young children; a two-year-old son and twins who were seven months old when he died.

The couple married in 2019, with Libby moving to the Pacific Northwest for his job before they relocated to Birmingham, Alabama, in 2022.

‘My husband lost his life because we’re in a war,’ she told the Associated Press. ‘It all comes down to principle.’

After her statement circulated online, the Air Force contacted her again and said it had itemized her husband’s benefits incorrectly, and that combat pay and tax exclusions were in fact included.

Klinner said officials acknowledged on Thursday they had provided her inaccurate information and confirmed she had received everything her husband was owed.

Vance asked for Klinner’s name and promised the administration would contact her directly after the briefing.

‘We want to be as helpful as we can and ensure she gets everything that she is entitled to,’ he said.

Elsewhere in the briefing, Vance disputed calling the Iran conflict a war, saying there was ‘no active shooting’, although he acknowledged places where fighting had flared up.

Senior commanders warned Hegseth that prolonged Iran operations could weaken US defenses elsewhere, including at home, the Washington Post reported last week.

Iran reportedly deployed its new electro-optical missile technology for the first time on Wednesday in an attempted strike on US warships, as Tehran escalated its retaliatory operations against American military assets in the region, officials said.

According to officials, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched an overnight barrage aimed at US forces in Jordan as well as 10 American vessels operating near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz.

The alleged assault on the ships involved Iranian missiles fitted with electro-optical seekers — guidance systems that rely on cameras and light sensors to lock onto targets and improve precision — The Telegraph reported.

US Central Command acknowledged the attacks, while officials said both efforts were unsuccessful, including the strike on Jordan, where incoming Iranian missiles were intercepted.

The latest strikes were described as retaliation for earlier American attacks that destroyed five oil tankers near Iran’s key Kharg Island oil hub.

“In response to the US’s aggressive actions against Iranian oil tankers, armed forces, in accordance with their inherent right of legitimate defence, attacked US military bases and facilities located in Jordan, which continues to support US military attacks against Iran, as well as several US vessels,” it said.

Iran had teased the development of the new missile system late last year, dubbing it the Qassem Bassir, a medium-range ballistic missile outfitted with the sensors.

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The regime claimed at the time that the missile’s sensors allowed it to be highly precise while avoiding GPS altogether, making the missile harder to be taken down by jamming systems.

Mohsen Rezaei, Iran’s newly installed secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, suggested a new “special anti-destroyer” missile debuted in Wednesday’s strike, hailing it as part of his new approach in the country’s defense policy.

It was not immediately clear if the Qassem Bassir weapon was the new missile used to target the US ships in the overnight attack.

The IRGC also warned of imminent strikes on oil tankers and bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, calling on all crew to evacuate the ships immediately.

The surge in tit-for-tat strikes and coinciding strikes on tankers in the region have raised alarms over the safe passage in the Strait of Hormuz, which oversees 20% of the world’s oil transports.

The attacks, coupled with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels’ strike on Saudi oil facilities, caused the price of crude to shoot above $100 per barrel for the first time since July.

With Post wires