A father’s Facebook plea asking his son to return home came to light days after the son, a New York Times executive, was allegedly killed in a California park by his 77-year-old in-laws.

Jonathan McKinsey posted a smiling picture of himself on Facebook on Sept. 7. His father, William Finney II, responded with a message expressing hope that the family could reconnect.

“Jon, hope everything is going well,” Finney wrote. “Hope you can visit us when you have some free time. Mom and Dad love you so much and miss you. Hope everything goes well with you and Candice and the kids.”

Fewer than three weeks later, McKinsey, 40, was shot and killed in the parking lot of the Dublin Sports Grounds. Prosecutors allege his in-laws, Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, had been waiting to ambush him.

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office charged Zhang and Chen with murder, alleging they deliberately killed McKinsey after “lying in wait.”

Multiple 911 callers reported hearing gunshots. A Dublin Police Services sergeant who arrived at the scene found McKinsey suffering from several gunshot wounds.

Witnesses told police that a black Honda Civic had sped away from the parking lot, prompting officers to carry out a high-risk traffic stop nearby, court documents state. Chen was reportedly behind the wheel, with Zhang in the passenger seat.

Three witnesses identified Chen and Zhang as the people who fired the shots. Surveillance footage allegedly showed the pair opening fire on McKinsey “in concert.”

Investigators said the couple opened fire in a busy parking area with “blatant disregard for public safety,” despite several children being close by.

According to court documents, Zhang later told investigators that he had shot McKinsey. Police also recovered a second firearm that Zhang allegedly acknowledged using during the killing.

The shooting occurred against the backdrop of a contentious divorce, a child custody fight and separate domestic violence allegations involving McKinsey and his estranged wife, Candice Jang.

News Media previously examined court dockets showing that several hearings were still scheduled in the coming months. They included a family law status conference on Oct. 2 and a three-day hearing on domestic violence restraining orders set for December.

Court filings show McKinsey initiated divorce proceedings in December. KTVU reported that the couple had been married for 14 years but were living separately, while Jang held sole legal and physical custody of their three children.

The records also detail allegations of domestic violence from both sides. Jang secured a temporary restraining order in October 2025. About two months later, and roughly one week before that order was due to expire, McKinsey requested a restraining order of his own.

In court documents, McKinsey accused Jang of physically and emotionally abusing him on a weekly basis and of mistreating their children.

“I truly believe that she would hurt or even kill them if she believed there was any possibility of me having the children in my custody and care,” McKinsey wrote in a declaration reviewed by KTVU.

McKinsey, who was transgender, also described disputes with his in-laws in legal filings. He alleged that Chen directed anti-LGBTQ slurs at both him and his son when McKinsey intervened.

McKinsey also accused Zhang of striking him in the chest while he was recovering from double mastectomy surgery in 2010.

McKinsey also alleged Jang forced him to eat a dead cockroach and once struck him with a frying pan.

In her protection order request, Jang alleged McKinsey physically and emotionally abused her, their children and her parents, asking the court to keep him away from all of them.

“He can be vindictive, and I worry he will retaliate against me and the people listed above,” she wrote.

Jang also wrote that she slept with a pair of scissors near her bed for protection in 2021.

Prosecutors separately charged McKinsey in October with two misdemeanor counts alleging he struck his 6-year-old son and left his 2-year-old child home alone while shopping, according to KTVU.

McKinsey denied intentionally leaving the toddler behind, arguing in court filings that Jang orchestrated the situation to frame him.

Despite the ongoing legal battles, a judge later approved unsupervised public visits with the couple’s three children.

Police also served a search warrant at Jang’s home Tuesday night. Authorities have not disclosed what investigators were seeking.

It was not immediately clear Thursday whether Zhang or Chen had retained attorneys to represent them.

News Media reached out to members of McKinsey’s family seeking comment but did not immediately receive a response. Jang could not immediately be reached.

Donald Trump said the FlyDubai co-pilot accused of stabbing the captain and attempting to seize control of a passenger jet may have links to Iran’s military, while issuing a sharp warning to Tehran.

The co-pilot allegedly attacked the captain as the aircraft traveled from Dubai to Tel Aviv on Wednesday, in what appeared to be an attempt to bring the plane down.

A catastrophe was avoided when the injured captain opened the cockpit door, allowing passengers to restrain the attacker. More than 170 people, most of them Israelis, were on board.

Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Trump said his administration was investigating whether the co-pilot had connections to Iran or its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

‘We’re working on it right now and being very open with us,’ Trump said.

Asked whether the co-pilot was linked to Iran or the IRGC, Trump replied: ‘I would say the answer, based on what I’m hearing, is yes. But we’re working on it right now.’

Trump warned that the United States would punish Iran if the co-pilot were found to have ties to the regime and it was determined that Tehran had supported the attack.

‘They’ll be hit very hard,’ he said, delivering a five-word warning. ‘Don’t worry.’

‘We know that he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination. That appears to be something we are gathering from his personal information,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News.

Two Israeli security officials said their initial assessment was that the co-pilot, identified as an Omani national, had probably acted alone. The investigation, however, was continuing.

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Flight-tracking website Flightradar24 reported that the aircraft descended more than 14,000 feet in under 30 seconds while flying over Saudi Arabia on its route from the United Arab Emirates to Israel.

Despite the dramatic incident, all passengers remained safe.

The co-pilot and captain were both hospitalized, according to officials at Tabuk airport. The plane landed there in an emergency after passengers subdued the co-pilot.

Trump also praised Boeing and chief executive Kelly Ortberg in a social media post Thursday morning, crediting the 737 MAX with enduring extreme forces as the aircraft rapidly descended before recovering.

‘Congratulations to the great Boeing Company for producing a plane, the 737 Max, that was able to withstand G Forces and Strain far beyond what it was designed and expected to do,’ he wrote.

‘It was an amazing show of precise and powerful structural planning and design. It is about time that The Boeing Company, which builds, by far, the finest commercial airliners in the sky, was given credit for this airplane’s incredible ‘genius!’ To Kelly Ortberg, and all of his officers and associates at Boeing, congratulations on a job well done!!!’

A fellow pilot has also now claimed the assailant – who is believed to be an Omani national – was a religious extremist.

Speaking in Hebrew on Israel’s Channel 16, foreign editor and news anchor Yosef Yisrael described how he spoke to a colleague of the attacker, who wishes to remain anonymous.

In a translated version, Mr Yisrael reads out how the violent pilot ‘was someone characterised by very strange behaviour, especially around religious observances that were out of step with his surroundings [at Flydubai]. For instance, he used to pray a lot, and would not shake hands with women’.

Mr Yisrael said his source ‘expressed contrition’ and said Flydubai had ‘betrayed Israel’.

‘There is no other way to put it, we hired the services of a terrorist and nearly caused the deaths of 180 people,’ Mr Yisrael said the man told him. ‘Usually only Emiratis fly to Israel. It is not clear how he got on this flight.’

New York Attorney General Letitia James is beginning a civil “review” of Cornell University’s handling of the so-called “Cornell 7” gang rape case, her office said.

James announced the review weeks after the case became public, when a former Cornell student sued the Ivy League university and alleged that she was raped at the Chi Phi fraternity house in 2024.

“My office has civil jurisdiction, not criminal jurisdiction,” James said Wednesday evening during an interview with Spectrum News.

The attorney general said the review will examine how Cornell responded to the allegations and whether the university should strengthen its policies and campus security. “At this point in time we are possibly looking at how Cornell handled this situation and whether or not they could update their protocols and provide security to all their students,” James said. “Particularly individuals who are the victims of sexual assault.”

In her lawsuit, the alleged victim criticized Cornell’s internal Title IX process, which included 12 hearings. She also claimed the students accused of assault faced limited consequences, with only two of the seven expelled.

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Cornell has rejected those allegations, saying it coordinated its response with police and barred the Chi Phi chapter from campus.

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Separately, Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten has said his office reopened a criminal investigation into the alleged rape.

James spoke as other officials, including Gov. Kathy Hochul, urged additional investigations and reviews of the case, which has triggered intense national outrage in recent weeks.

At a campaign event Sunday in Ithaca, home to Cornell, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the university and other “elite institutions,” accusing them of shielding a “culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia.”

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– Netanyahu praises passenger who thwarted alleged cockpit attack and prevented ‘another 9/11’
– Wounded Canadian police officer stops attempted synagogue massacre
– Irish soccer team faces backlash after refusing to shake hands with Israeli opponents

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised Yaniv Chayon, a passenger who intervened during an alleged in-flight cockpit attack and helped prevent what he called “another 9/11.” Chayon was left with bloody slash wounds after grappling with the suspected hijacker and forcing him to the floor during the flight. Netanyahu later commended the passenger’s “extraordinary courage,” saying his actions saved dozens of lives.

Speaking to a reporter at the Texas Tribune Festival, Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., argued that the Democratic Party’s “big tent” has increasingly accommodated anti-Israel voices. He cited the large Austin audience for commentator Hasan Piker as evidence of that shift.

In Canada, a police officer was seriously wounded while confronting an alleged attack during Yom Kippur. The officer reportedly faced hate-filled threats and gunfire before returning fire despite suffering multiple gunshot wounds, bringing the threat to an end and potentially preventing a mass-casualty attack. Jewish organizations, shaken by the incident, are urging lawmakers to quickly approve funding that would allow communities to hire armed security guards.

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The Irish national soccer team has also come under international criticism after players declined to shake hands with their Israeli opponents and bowed their heads during Israel’s national anthem. Wearing black armbands as a form of protest, the Irish squad’s pre-match actions drew sharp condemnation. Israeli players accused the team of displaying hostility and ignorance rather than sportsmanship.

Brendan O’Neill, author of “After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation,” argues that Ireland’s secular political and cultural establishment has replaced its historic Catholic identity with a new ideological creed. O’Neill says Irish elites use condemnation of Israel to claim moral authority, turning anti-Zionism into a rigid form of national identity that, in his view, has helped fuel antisemitism.

“The passengers, including 30 children, are already saying their prayers. They know they’re gone from this world. And this young man just acts with incredible, incredible heroism and saves the day,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on “Hannity,” while describing how Yaniv Chayon subdued an allegedly berserk pilot.

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David Grusch, an Air Force veteran turned UFO whistleblower, has made another extraordinary claim: that US officials know of a huge underwater installation allegedly connected to non-human craft.

Grusch, a former intelligence officer who now advises lawmakers on UFO transparency, told Congress under oath in 2023 that the government had operated secret programs for decades to recover and study crashed spacecraft believed to be of non-human origin.

During a recent interview with Joe Rogan, he expanded on his allegations, saying officials were aware of at least one enormous underwater facility that extraterrestrials supposedly use as a “base of operations” for their vehicles.

“I’m going to be careful because it gets into sensitive Navy underwater things,” Grusch said.

He described the alleged site as a large, established facility located somewhere beneath the ocean, comparing its scale to “multiple city blocks.” Grusch said he did not know when it was built.

According to Grusch, objects or other materials are regularly seen moving in and out of the supposed base.

He said his account was based on classified program documents, video evidence and statements from people inside the military and government who allegedly provided firsthand information.

The Pentagon and the White House, however, have repeatedly said that investigators have found no physical evidence confirming the existence of extraterrestrial life or alien spacecraft.

Grusch did not identify the facility’s location or explain precisely how it was detected. He said those details involved highly sensitive military tracking capabilities, but maintained that US authorities had been monitoring activity connected to the site.

He also claimed that Navy officials had jokingly—or perhaps not so jokingly—linked the alleged installation to The Abyss, the 1989 science-fiction film in which an oil-rig crew encounters mysterious non-human beings living beneath the sea.

“I will tell you, underwater people, I know that come from that community, they’re always like, ‘You know, The Abyss, Dave, it’s kind of a docudrama.’ And I’m like, ‘Holy f***,’” he said during the September 30 episode.

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Grusch served in the Air Force for 14 years before becoming an intelligence officer with the National Reconnaissance Office, the Pentagon agency responsible for developing and operating surveillance satellites.

Between 2019 and 2021, he represented the NRO on a government task force examining unidentified aerial phenomena. He later came forward as a whistleblower, alleging that parts of the US government had obstructed congressional oversight of programs involving possible extraterrestrial technology.

Grusch subsequently briefed lawmakers and testified about what he said the government knew regarding non-human intelligence.

His latest comments resemble claims previously made by Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett, a member of the House Oversight Committee involved in examining UFO reports. Burchett said last year that alien “entities” could be living in deep underwater regions.

In an interview that circulated widely online, Burchett said unidentified craft had been spotted repeatedly near five or six deep-sea locations. He suggested that some of those areas might be in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Bahamas.

Speaking with journalist Matt Laslo, Burchett said naval personnel had described pursuing underwater objects capable of traveling hundreds of miles per hour—far faster, he claimed, than the vessels available to the US Navy.

Grusch also alleged that he was shown footage of bodies recovered from the crash site of a purported alien vehicle. He characterized the video as recent and clear, rather than the indistinct, decades-old material often associated with UFO claims.

He alleged that the beings he saw were ‘very beautiful’ with pale, bluish-white skin, which were now being kept in a frozen storage facility for further examination.

Rogan asked: ‘This video, do you think this will be a part of disclosure, that we’ll get to see this video of these dead bodies?’

‘Probably. There’s a lot of audio-visual stuff. The problem with the current climate like you’re going to have to wheel out the physical evidence, too, because the trust in government is so low right now,’ Grusch claimed.

On a summer day in California, 17-month-old Brooklyn Marris suddenly vomited across the backseat of her family’s car.

The vomiting continued for two days, progressing from “yellow bile” to a “blue-green” substance. Doctors at an emergency room quickly determined that Brooklyn needed specialized care at a children’s hospital roughly 70 miles away.

At the hospital, Brooklyn was placed on a ventilator and started on dialysis as her kidneys began to fail. She suffered cardiac arrest three times, leaving her parents uncertain whether she would survive, according to ProPublica.

Doctors ultimately determined that Brooklyn had been infected with a dangerous strain of E. coli. Her parents believe the bacteria came from a drink they had given her for about six months to relieve constipation.

Doctors saved Brooklyn’s life. Now her mother hopes the family’s ordeal will warn others against making the same potentially fatal decision: feeding a child raw milk.

“I’m going to hate myself to the day I die for having allowed that to happen,” Emily Marris said.

Brooklyn’s story

At 48, Emily had desperately hoped for a third child. Brooklyn, she told ProPublica, was her “miracle baby.”

Brooklyn arrived seven weeks early with a low birth weight and underdeveloped lungs. She spent her first month in a neonatal intensive care unit.

The experience fueled Emily’s determined effort to “detoxify” the family’s home. She removed synthetic materials and cut out ultra-processed foods.

When Emily began taking a new medication for chronic pain that could pass into breast milk, she looked for an alternative to breastfeeding. She rejected organic infant formula because of its additives and said store-bought cow’s milk left Brooklyn constipated.

Emily then turned to a Facebook group, where mothers praised the supposed benefits of raw — or unpasteurized — goat’s milk. One member directed her to a farm just 10 miles away.

Emily bought a jug that same day and noticed it was still warm. Brooklyn drank it readily, and her bowel movements became more regular. The routine continued for six months — until the vomiting began.

At the hospital, Brooklyn developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a severe illness in which damaged blood vessels form clots that can injure vital organs, including the kidneys. E. coli is the most common cause.

Brooklyn remained on dialysis for several days and eventually recovered. However, the developmental progress she had made before the illness came to a halt.

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She was left with a slight limp and could no longer sleep through the night. Doctors warned that she might face lasting kidney problems and would never be able to drink alcohol.

The real danger of raw milk

Although Emily believed she was making an informed choice at the time, she now carries intense guilt. “I’m the one that gave it to her,” she told ProPublica. “Just how stupid could I be?”

Raw, unpasteurized milk has gained popularity in recent years. A 2023 study found that 4.4% of Americans said they had consumed it during the previous year, while 1% reported drinking it every week.

Researchers say there is no scientific basis for claims that raw milk improves nutrition, prevents lactose intolerance or supplies beneficial “good” bacteria. Those assertions, they say, are myths.

Pasteurization — the process of heating milk to kill dangerous pathogens — was developed more than a century ago for a reason.

“Prior to pasteurization, there was significant illness from consumption of raw milk,” Dr. Uzma Syed, a board-certified infectious disease specialist and Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, previously told The Post. “We have been fortunate to have a significant decline in these infections and illnesses in the general population due to safer milk production and consumption.”

Some studies show up to a third of raw milk has pathogens, even if it’s from a healthy animal or the milk appears to be of good quality. That can happen due to contamination, since bacteria lingers everywhere from the cow’s udders to the farmer’s hands.

And that contamination can be lots of things — including cow feces.

In fact, people are 100 times more likely to get a foodborne illness from drinking raw milk compared to pasteurized milk.

In addition to E. coli, anything from campylobacter to salmonella, listeria, and bird flu can be found in unpasteurized milk. These are especially dangerous to kids, older adults, pregnant women, and anyone with a weakened immune system.

In California, only licensed farms can sell raw milk, though unlicensed farms like the one Emily bought from can also sell it, as long as it’s labeled as pet food. After a state investigation was opened, the farm owner told them the milk was for pets only and claimed that it was advertised as such.

Days after Brooklyn got sick, a six-year-old who’d drank milk from the same farm also got deathly ill. Emily joined this second family to sue the farm owner and the business, alleging hey had negligently sold the families contaminated raw milk that was presented as “fit for human consumption.”

The case is ongoing. Baker told ProPublica that the farm will “fully defend against the allegations by Plaintiffs.”