Woody Allen made a rare public appearance in Madrid this week with his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, as the 90-year-old filmmaker prepares to return to the director’s chair.

The Oscar-winning director was photographed holding hands with Previn, 55, during a low-key outing in the Spanish capital. The appearance marked the first time the couple had been seen together publicly in roughly a year.

Dressed in a blue shirt and chinos, Allen appeared to lean on his wife as they walked. Previn wore a floral dress paired with a sunhat.

Previn is the adopted daughter of Mia Farrow, Allen’s former partner.

Farrow and Allen began their relationship in 1979. Their partnership ended in 1992 after Allen, then 55, and Previn, who was 21 at the time, became involved in an affair.

Allen and Previn married in 1997 and have since adopted two daughters, Bechet, now 28, and Manzie, 26.

Allen’s most recent film, the 2023 drama Coup de Chance, was followed by the presentation of his next project in Madrid on Thursday. The new movie is provisionally titled WASP 2026.

Coup de Chance received positive reviews and took in $7.8 million at the global box office in 2023.

During a 2023 appearance at the 80th Venice International Film Festival to promote the movie, Allen faced booing from people who objected to his presence because of allegations that he sexually assaulted his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow. Allen has vehemently denied the allegation and has never been charged or prosecuted.

His planned $68 million, four-film deal with Amazon Studios was canceled during the 2020 #MeToo movement. Since then, Allen has faced increasing difficulty securing distributors for his projects.

WASP 2026 is described as a romantic comedy written and directed by Allen. Production is scheduled to begin on October 5, with filming set to take place primarily in Madrid and nearby Aranjuez. Jemima Kirke, Alexi Wasser and Peter Vives are attached to the cast.

“I will be very happy to return to Spain,” Allen said. “This will be my third time filming there and my first opportunity to make a film in Madrid, a city I have always loved.”

The project will receive €3 million in public funding from the Madrid Regional Government and Madrid City Council.

The Daily Mail has contacted Allen’s representative for additional comment.

Previn was adopted from Korea by Farrow and her then-husband, conductor André Previn, when she was six years old.

Allen first met Previn when she was about 11, while he was in a relationship with Farrow.

By the time Previn was 21, an intimate relationship had started between the two.

The affair with Previn began in December 1991, the same month that Allen adopted Dylan and Moses Farrow, Mia Farrow’s children, according to The New York Times.

It is alleged that Korean-born Previn bonded with Allen during her final year of high school when she told him that she wanted to be a model.

After spending more time together, the pair’s relationship grew stronger, according to Vanity Fair.

So strong, that in January 1992, Farrow found nude polaroid photographs of her adopted daughter in Allen’s home, when they were still together. The affair continued into August.

During the same month, Dylan, who was seven at the time, claimed that Allen sexually abused her on CBS This Morning.

Previn has insisted that Allen is innocent.

The relationship continued, and by 1997, Allen and Previn wed in Venice. 

Dylan’s sexual abuse allegations were investigated, and no charges ever brought.

Ronan Farrow, the journalist brother of Dylan, wrote about it in 2016, and condemned Hollywood for continuing to work with their father.

Their brother Moses Farrow, however, has consistently defended their father and accused Farrow of coaching Dylan to accuse Woody, in anger at their divorce.

Allen has remained relatively tight-lipped when it comes to his relationship with Previn, but in March 2021 on CBS Sunday Morning, he commented on the marriage in conversation with Lee Cowan.

He was asked if he ever considered a relationship with his girlfriend’s adopted daughter to be inappropriate.

Allen said ‘no,’ adding ‘there was never a moment that it wasn’t the most natural thing in the world… it didn’t give me pause, because the relationship with Soon-Yi was very gradual. It wasn’t like I went out with her one night and kissed her.

‘I would say of the many women I’ve dated in my life, many women, they were all what the appropriate police would call appropriate – age appropriate,’ he said. ‘Diane Keaton, Mia Farrow, Louise Lasser, my first wife; until Soon-Yi, which is unusual for me.’

Allen added: ‘If you’d have told me I was going to wind up married, and happily married, to an Asian woman much younger than me, not in show business, I would have said ‘the odds of that are very slim. I don’t think you’re going to be right.’ But that’s what happened.’

The Biden administration approved more than 99% of sponsor applications for unaccompanied migrant children in fiscal year 2024, potentially exposing vulnerable minors to rapists, gang members and murderers amid what investigators described as a “less stringent” vetting process, according to a memo obtained by The Post.

From 2021 through 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services processed nearly 500,000 migrant children placed with sponsors through the Office of Refugee Resettlement. By Biden’s final year in office, however, almost no applications from households seeking custody were being rejected.

One case examined by HHS involved a 15-year-old girl who was released to a man identified as her alleged biological brother. Investigators later determined that the purported sponsor was not related to her. He allegedly raped and impregnated the child in fall 2023.

“The sponsor has been charged by the state, and the case is under investigation by Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Justice. Prior to sponsoring the 15-year-old female, the purported sponsor had sponsored three [unaccompanied migrant children],” the ORR memo stated.

The memo said the approval rate followed a broader period, from 2022 to 2024, when “less stringent policies allowed for potential and actual sponsors to exploit gaps in the ORR sponsor vetting process.”

Since President Trump took office, HHS investigators have been reviewing a backlog of more than 65,000 reports involving potential threats to the health or safety of migrant children. The reports, known as Child Level Events, or CLEs, were submitted after ORR was alerted to alleged problems.

“ORR’s tracking of fraud trends shows that the average rate of intentional document or information fraud, regardless of the number of children assisted per month, remains at approximately 77% of reported Child Level Events (CLE),” the memo said.

Between Oct. 1, 2023, and Oct. 31, 2024, HHS’s Office of General Counsel reviewed nearly 1,700 CLEs and determined that about 85% of the sponsorship applicants involved had engaged in “intentional document fraud.”

Investigators found that alleged fake sponsors used fraudulent identification, altered photographs, unverifiable addresses and falsified fingerprints. Others misrepresented household members or misstated the ages of migrant children placed in their care.

“The Biden Administration failed in its most basic responsibility: protecting vulnerable children in federal care,” Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement.

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“It weakened safeguards and prioritized speed over scrutiny, leaving children exposed to fraud, exploitation, and abuse. Under President Trump, HHS is restoring rigorous oversight, verifying who takes custody of these children, and putting their safety first. We will hold this system accountable and never sacrifice a child’s safety for bureaucratic convenience,” Kennedy said.

The memo described several cases in 2024 in which allegedly fraudulent sponsorship arrangements were linked to serious harm involving unaccompanied migrant children.

“ORR denied less than 1% of sponsorship applications, a data point which suggests these individuals were able to sponsor UAC with little deterrence,” the memo stated.

In one case, a 17-year-old migrant boy was released to a sponsor who claimed to be his stepsister. In October 2024, he was “found dead in the back seat of a car, with his genitalia exposed, along with an unconscious 30-year-old male,” according to the memo.

In another case, a teenage migrant boy was placed with a woman who claimed to be his mother but had gang-related tattoos. The boy “died after having been given seven marijuana joints by unrelated adult men” in August 2024, the memo said.

A separate incident in February 2025 involved a 9-year-old migrant girl who was nearly housed in the same room as her allegedly abusive 13-year-old brother. ORR staff intervened before that arrangement continued.

During a later home visit, investigators found “multiple unknown individuals.” The memo also described one room as having a strong marijuana odor and another as smelling of feces, while glass shards were scattered on the floor beneath a broken window.

“Despite these warning signs, ORR approved the UAC to be released to the mother’s household. The current status of the UAC is unknown,” the memo concluded.

The HHS review comes after a 2024 report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General found that the agency had lost contact with 291,000 migrant children believed to be living with domestic sponsors.

The watchdog report also found that another 32,000 children were believed to be missing after they failed to appear for immigration court proceedings.

Convicted Tennessee killer Christa Pike is in critical condition after two failed lethal-injection attempts, her attorneys said Thursday, one day after the state tried to execute her for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer.

“Christa is alive right now,” attorney Randy Spivey told reporters during a Zoom briefing Thursday afternoon. “We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment.”

Spivey said he could not provide specific information because of limited details and federal HIPAA privacy protections.

“She is in critical condition receiving lifesaving care, that is the extent that we have at the moment,” he said.

Attorney Stephen Ferrell said it appeared the needle “either became dislodged or pierced all the way through the veins,” preventing the injection from being administered properly. He said the attorneys did not have additional medical details because of HIPAA rules.

Pike, now 50, was 18 when she orchestrated the torture and killing of Slemmer, a classmate she viewed as a romantic rival. She was scheduled to become the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years Wednesday evening, after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an emergency stay of execution.

The execution team administered two injections at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Neither dose was fatal.

“I’m haunted by last night,” Spivey told reporters during the briefing.

Pike remained conscious and, at one point, lifted her head and asked prison officials whether her arm was supposed to feel the way it did. Witnesses said she was still breathing after the second dose had been given.

Before Wednesday’s failed execution, Pike had sought an alternative form of capital punishment because she feared the lethal injection might malfunction. Her requests were denied.

Although they declined to discuss specifics because of privacy restrictions, Pike’s attorneys did not dispute that the Tennessee Department of Correction granted her request for an all-female execution team.

Slemmer’s mother drove from Florida to Nashville to witness the execution attempt. She did not respond to News Media’s efforts to reach her.

“I cannot imagine what this was like for the family of Ms. Slemmer, or anyone who loves that family or is close to that family — or anyone who loves Christa or is close to Christa,” Spivey said. “This is awful, and this kind of thing should never happen again.”

Pike was one of three teenagers convicted in Slemmer’s brutal killing. Prosecutors said the victim was tortured, slashed, beaten and ultimately had her skull crushed with a piece of asphalt.

Pike was 18 when the attack occurred in January 1995. She, her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and a friend, Shadolla Peterson, lured Slemmer away by telling her they wanted to visit a music store and retrieve marijuana they had hidden in a park near their vocational school.

Pike then attacked her. As Slemmer tried to escape, Shipp grabbed her and held her down, according to court records.

Phil Keith, who was Knoxville’s chief of police at the time, told News Media that the assailants tortured Slemmer for up to an hour before she died. Pike took a piece of her shattered skull as a trophy, which she showed off the next day in school, and Shipp carved pentagrams into her chest and face.

“Pike was the catalyst,” Keith said. “She was the one that was planning out all the events, the luring, all that.”

The failed execution prompted Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to halt the state’s remaining scheduled execution this year and order “a comprehensive, third-party review to determine exactly what occurred.”

Amber Guyger, the white former Texas police officer convicted of killing her Black neighbor, has been released from prison after serving seven years.

Guyger, a former Dallas officer, was approved for parole on Thursday. She had been serving a 10-year sentence for the 2018 shooting death of Botham Jean.

Jean, a 26-year-old accountant, was shot and killed by Guyger, who is now 38, on the night of September 6, 2018.

Guyger said she was off duty but still wearing her police uniform when she mistakenly entered Jean’s apartment, believing it was her own. She told authorities she fired after thinking he was an intruder.

A jury convicted Guyger of murder in October 2019, and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The precise date of her release from the Patrick L. O’Daniel Unit in Gatesville, located roughly 40 miles from Waco, has not been made public.

Guyger was denied parole in 2024. However, a board spokesperson told The Dallas Morning News that her latest petition was approved because her prison record did not show a documented pattern of violent behavior.

The parole board also cited Guyger’s “satisfactory institutional adjustment” and her completion of a treatment program intended to improve her prospects of securing and keeping full-time employment, according to the newspaper.

Lee Merritt, the civil rights attorney who represented Jean’s family, said he was “deeply disappointed” by the parole decision.

“Botham’s family and the community strongly opposed this parole,” Merritt said in a statement.

“They stood up again and again to ask that the full sentence be served. Releasing Ms. Guyger after seven years makes that loss feel even smaller in the eyes of the system. It is not smaller.”

Guyger previously said she became confused about which apartment was hers. She lived on the third floor of the building, while Jean’s home was directly above hers on the fourth floor.

Believing Jean was an intruder, the former officer fired two shots.

Though she was not on duty, Guyger was still wearing her uniform and used her service firearm during the shooting.

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Dallas police dismissed her several weeks after Jean’s death, and she was initially charged with manslaughter.

A grand jury later indicted Guyger on a murder charge. At trial, she maintained that mistakenly believing she was inside her own apartment supported her claim that the shooting was an act of self-defense.

During her trial, prosecutors pointed to a series of text messages that Guyger exchanged with her partner, Officer Martin Rivera, at the time of the shooting. 

Rivera, who was in a sexual relationship with Guyger, told the court that he would often send her provocative images of himself. 

Just hours before the killing, the two of them sent sexually explicit messages to each other, including one where Guyger told her partner that she was ‘super horny today,’ NBC News reported. 

She had worked a 13-and-a-half-hour shift that day, and at about 9.30pm, she sent a Snapchat message to Rivera that read: ‘Wanna touch?’ according to the report. 

Guyger called 911 that night, and Jean was alive when officers and paramedics arrived, but he could not communicate. 

Earbuds were found next to him in the home, suggesting that he might have had them on when Guyger entered his home. He was also eating ice cream when she came inside.

The case and Guyger’s trial garnered national attention, especially when Jean’s brother hugged her and said: ‘I forgive you.’ 

‘I love you as a person and I don’t wish anything bad on you,’ Brandt Jean, then 18, told Guyger at the time. 

Another unlikely embrace then took place between Guyger and the judge who presided over her case.   

After the trial wrapped up and she gave the ex-cop her sentence, Judge Tammy Kemp walked over and handed Guyger a bible. 

She then wrapped her arms around Guyger and said something to her as they prayed together, The Texas Tribune reported.  

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A pod of dolphins became disoriented and was trapped in a California inlet near Morro Bay, where one animal died in the mud before rescuers could reach it.

The Marine Mammal Center confirmed the dolphin’s death near Cuesta Inlet on Wednesday. Rescuers successfully saved three other dolphins.

The Marine Mammal Center and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife responded after receiving multiple reports that common dolphins had become stranded outside the bay.

The dolphins’ arrival initially drew a crowd of spectators, but the tide receded by the end of the day. The animals failed to return to the ocean on Tuesday and became trapped in the mud.

“Because these were wild, native animals exhibiting normal behaviors prior to the strandings, the best-case scenario was for the dolphins to make their way out of the inlet on their own,” the Marine Mammal Center said in a statement to The California Post.

“Unfortunately, as tidal conditions worsened Tuesday afternoon, four dolphins at Cuesta Inlet became stuck in the mudflats and were unable to navigate back to deeper water.”

“On Wednesday morning, September 30, Center experts safely responded to three of the four dolphins at Cuesta Inlet and successfully released all three outside of the bay, with assistance from Harbor Patrol,” the statement added.

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A fifth dolphin, spotted initially in nearby Shark Inlet, was not located during the rescue operation. Officials said they will continue monitoring the area.

Officials said the reason the dolphins traveled off course remains unclear. They noted that unusual ocean conditions associated with the approaching El Niño could have contributed.

“Past marine heat waves, such as the ‘Blob,’ have contributed to warmer waters, which can influence where dolphins live and the prey available to them,” Giancarlo Rulli of the Marine Mammal Center told KSBY.

“Warmer waters can also shift the distribution of fish and other prey, potentially requiring dolphins to adapt their feeding behavior and seek new food sources,” he said.

The dolphin that died will undergo a necropsy, officials said.

“Seeing an animal in distress is emotionally difficult, and our team feels that too. This has been a heroic effort by many partners, including Harbor Patrol and the community, to give these animals a second chance,” said Sarah Pattison, director of hospital operations at the Marine Mammal Center.

“We’re grateful that three of these dolphins were able to be safely returned to the ocean, and we continue to monitor the situation closely.”