New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch issued a pointed warning against blurring the distinction between 9/11 terrorists and first responders Wednesday, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood beside her, comments some observers interpreted as a veiled rebuke of the mayor.
Tisch delivered the remarks during the unveiling of a new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza honoring more than 469 NYPD members who have died from illnesses connected to their service following the terrorist attacks.
&#8220;Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity,&#8221; Tisch said. &#8220;The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.&#8221;
Many who watched her speak on Wednesday immediately assumed that she was speaking to the mayor, even if indirectly.
&#8220;Jessica Tisch said this with Zohran Mamdani sitting beside her. Public officials must show &#8216;moral clarity&#8217; about 9/11 and never blur the distinction between heroes and terrorists. &#8216;Shame on those who do.&#8217; She didn’t say his name. She didn’t have to,&#8221; former financial exec Sam Antar <a href="https://x.com/SamAntar/status/2097739368622342489">posted</a>.
While the police commissioner did not mention anyone by name, Tisch&#8217;s remarks come just a few days after Mamdani signed official orders designating September 11 as a Day of Remembrance and addressing security concerns ahead of the 25th anniversary events.
After signing the orders, Mamdani gifted the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-marks-9-11-with-slap-in-the-face-move-tied-to-al-qaeda-terrorist">ceremonial pen</a> to his chief counsel, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-names-al-qaeda-defense-attorney-as-new-york-citys-chief-counsel" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ramzi Kassem</a> — who has been directly linked to al-Qaeda terrorists — but because Tisch was standing between them at the time, he first gave the pen to her and asked her to &#8220;pass it&#8221; to Kassem. Witnesses noted that Tisch made an abrupt exit from the room after that.
Critics were quick to suggest that Mamdani had not done that by accident — that he knew the optics of such a move and did not care.
&#8220;This childish, calculated display of passive aggression was missed by no one, and will not be forgotten by Tisch or by NYC’s millions of 9/11 survivors,&#8221; Fox Business anchor <a href="https://x.com/DavidAsmanfox/status/2096445982997102742">David Asman</a> said.
Matthew Hennessey wrote in a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/mamdanis-pen-is-a-message-of-contempt-a0a3e9b0?st=TBKE8V">Wall Street Journal</a> op-ed, &#8220;Everyone deserves a lawyer. But by deliberately handing his ceremonial pen to this man, Mr. Mamdani mocked the loss his city suffered on 9/11. And he forced Ms. Tisch to participate in that mockery. He might as well have turned to the cameras and winked.&#8221;
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Before he became the center of a college campus drug investigation, accused Penn State cocaine kingpin Agostino Abbatiello attended a pricey New York Catholic school.
The Long Island native, according to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/08/us-news/penn-state-cocaine-scandal-agostino-abbatiello-was-loudmouth-at-private-catholic-school-sources/">report</a> from The New York Post, grew up in the wealthy suburb of Westbury and attended Chaminade High School in Mineola, New York — a private Catholic school that runs $19,000 per year and touts a record of &#8220;forming young men of character and purpose.&#8221;
&#8220;I could always see him getting in some kind of trouble because he was always on the edge,&#8221; one former classmate told the outlet. &#8220;Auggie was not this innocent boy. He had this group of, like, 10 boys who would hang out in parks after school and go to house parties &#8230; There were rumors some of that crowd were drinking underage, some people had fake IDs, that kind of thing.&#8221;
Another former classmate described Abbatiello as a &#8220;loudmouth&#8221; and &#8220;a jokester, always looking for attention.&#8221;
&#8220;He’d go around making noises, calling people names and doing his best to make people laugh when the teacher turned their backs,&#8221; the classmate said.
The 24-year-old was one of several <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/frat-bros-busted-after-pledges-forced-to-cut-cocaine-in-university-drug-cartel">Penn State University</a> fraternity brothers charged in connection with an alleged drug trafficking ring — one that prosecutors say roped young fraternity pledges into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/frat-bros-ran-a-cocaine-empire-until-one-boneheaded-move-blew-it-up">cutting and packaging</a> cocaine as part of their initiation.
Abbatiello, known at the university as &#8220;The Godfather,&#8221; appeared in court last Wednesday — where Lars Zeepvat, who was also charged in connection with the trafficking ring, testified that Abbatiello had bought drugs from a former classmate named &#8220;RJ&#8221; and had been instrumental in bringing the drugs onto the western Pennsylvania campus.
&#8220;First time he purchased from RJ it was the most we’ve ever seen and it was 100 grams,” Zeepvat testified. &#8220;People were enamored with how much it was. Abbatiello brought back the coke the first time he went to New York and put it on the social room [at the] frat house.&#8221;
None of the people who spoke to The Post were able to shed any light on who &#8220;RJ&#8221; might have been.

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President Donald Trump cleared up some confusion on Wednesday after an emergency slide deployed on his new presidential aircraft as it sat on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews.
Trump — who was headed to Dallas for the first-ever Republican National Committee Midterm Convention — was still aboard Marine One at the time. While the slide remained deployed, the president&#8217;s old plane also rolled up and parked a short distance away, prompting confusion about which plane Trump would take and why.
Trump quickly shrugged off concerns about the slide when he disembarked and spoke with reporters, saying it was just being checked out before his flight and assuring them nothing was wrong with his new plane.
&#8220;So they&#8217;re checking the slide over here, and I think it&#8217;s going to take 15 minutes. They were doing a check on the slide, you know, the emergency. So I think it takes about 15 minutes,&#8221; he told reporters. &#8220;They want to make sure everything works perfectly.&#8221;
When asked whether he was confident the plane was safe, Trump replied, &#8220;Yeah, I am, or I wouldn&#8217;t be on it.&#8221;
Crews removed the slide, and Trump departed aboard the new aircraft without further incident.
Questions regarding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pulled-off-secret-plane-swap-using-catering-truck-after-iran-threat-report">Trump&#8217;s safety</a> in the air have taken a different tone since July, when the president was quietly transferred to another plane as he left a NATO meeting in Turkey. According to a report from The Washington Post, Trump was taken away from the older Air Force One in a catering truck — apparently due to an assassination threat from Iran — while staffers and reporters remained on board.
Despite the threat and the apparent last-minute switch, the White House has said on several occasions that the Qatari-gifted plane has the &#8220;high-level security protocols&#8221; needed to protect the president.
&#8220;The new Air Force One is a state-of-the-art aircraft that has been fitted with high-level security protocols that ensure the safety of the President and his staff,” White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement at the time. “As the President has said recently, there are many enemies of America who have their sights on him, and we use every tool at our disposal to address those threats.”

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&#8220;Lioness&#8221; actress Jill Wagner said series creator Taylor Sheridan gave her just 10 minutes to relearn a tactical sequence using her non-dominant hand, the kind of challenge that she says &#8220;forces you to run into the fire.&#8221;
Wagner, 47, told People that Sheridan issued the last-minute direction while she and co-star Laysla De Oliveira were preparing to film a scene for the third season of the Paramount+ series.
&#8220;I won’t say that anything was so physically draining for me this season because I do think this season is a bit more cerebral,” Wagner told the outlet. &#8220;But I will say there was one day that Laysla [de Oliveira] and I were trying to get this entrance into the house. Cruz and Bobby have to come in and clear the room, and we were having difficulties with some of the angles.&#8221;
Wagner said she and De Oliveira had already learned the sequence when Sheridan stepped in shortly before filming.
&#8220;Ten minutes before we roll, he comes in and says, ‘No, I think you should switch arms. Transition your weapon to your left arm,'&#8221; Wagner added. &#8220;And I was just like, &#8216;Hmm … okay. Help me&#8217; &#8230; Ultimately, we worked it out, and it’s probably going to be one of my favorite moments.&#8221;
De Oliveira agreed that Sheridan&#8217;s on-set asks could be daunting, but said that they also instilled confidence in his actors.
&#8220;Once you go through that experience, you really leave the set thinking, &#8216;Wow, I can do anything!&#8217; If you can pick that up, then you go onto another set and think, &#8216;Well, this one time I did everything with my left hand even though I’m right-handed.&#8217; So it’s a great opportunity for us.&#8221;
&#8220;He forces you to run into the fire. He really does,&#8221; Wagner said.
Wagner&#8217;s description echoed recent comments from co-star Zoe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/actress-says-taylor-sheridan-offers-stars-two-choices">Saldana</a>, who said Sheridan gives his actors two choices when he raises the bar.
&#8220;Working with him is a challenge in the sense that he does raise the bar,&#8221; Saldana said ahead of the third season. &#8220;And you have one of two choices. You either accept the challenge and make sure that you don’t f*ck up … or you quit. And I like being challenged. I really do.&#8221;
Wagner, who stars as Quick Reaction Force leader Bobby and serves as an executive producer on &#8220;Lioness,&#8221; helped originate the idea for the series after <a href="https://decider.com/2024/12/08/lioness-jill-wagner-interview-bobby-taylor-sheridan/">learning</a> about the military&#8217;s real-life Lioness program from her husband, U.S. Army Major David Lemanowicz.
The program deployed female U.S. Marines alongside combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan, allowing them to search and question women while respecting local cultural restrictions. The teams also worked to prevent insurgents from using women and children to smuggle weapons.
Wagner, who previously appeared in a number of films for Hallmark Channel and then Great American Family, cut her hair and underwent intense physical and tactical training for the role.
&#8220;I think because we’re telling important stories about women who are still currently over there doing these jobs, I think it’s really important that we remind people — not just women, but men as well — that they’re over there fighting for a lot of different things for us and sacrificing. I just think it’s important to remind people and to honor that,&#8221; Wagner said of the show.

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A massive sinkhole swallowed part of actor Nicolas Cage&#8217;s driveway — and threatened to swallow his $10.5 million Malibu home — after heavy rains and high surf from Tropical Storm Marie battered his $10.5 million Malibu property.
The hole, estimated at 30 feet by 30 feet, opened Tuesday morning outside the beachfront home, sending asphalt, concrete, part of a privacy fence, and a construction-site porta potty tumbling into it,  <a href="https://pagesix.com/2026/09/08/celebrity-news/nicolas-cages-malibu-mansion-surrounded-by-massive-sinkhole/?_gl=1*118vjnl*_gcl_au*MzA4MjQzMjc1LjE3ODg4ODcxMTA.*_ga*MTUxNTA1OTQyMi4xNzg4ODg3MTE4*_ga_0DZ7LHF5PZ*czE3ODg4OTU4MjgkbzMkZzEkdDE3ODg4OTU4NjQkajI0JGwwJGgw">according</a> to Page Six.
<a href="https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/nicolas-cage-malibu-home-threatened-173920993.html">First responders</a> were initially called to the scene early Tuesday morning for a suspected gas line break, and Los Angeles County Fire Department units were sent to the 31600 block of Sea Level Drive at about 5:45 a.m. Upon arrival, crews discovered that the collapse had damaged a gas line, which workers shut off before beginning repairs.
No injuries were reported, and no one appeared to be inside Cage&#8217;s home at the time.
&#8220;Substantial damage was done to this home, or at least the driveway to this home here in Malibu. It doesn&#8217;t appear that anybody was home. As a matter of fact, the house looks like it is under some sort of renovation,&#8221; KTLA&#8217;s Rich Prickett reported.
A fire department spokesman attributed the sinkhole to coastal erosion. The collapse occurred as high tides and surf associated with Tropical Storm Marie battered the Malibu coastline.
The &#8220;National Treasure&#8221; actor, 62, had bought the property in 2024 — and it appeared to be undergoing renovations at the time.
A representative for Cage did not immediately respond to Page Six&#8217;s request for comment.
Cage&#8217;s home, according to Page Six, was built by Jose Liberman of Liberman Broadcasting in the 1990s — and remained in his family until the Oscar-winning actor purchased it.
After the sale, Lenard Liberman told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/15/realestate/nicolas-cage-malibu-house.html">The New York Times</a>, &#8220;Yes, Nicolas Cage bought our home in Malibu. My parents would go on weekends, and it was my father&#8217;s &#8216;happy place.&#8217; My father passed away, and my mom just couldn&#8217;t go to the house anymore. Too many memories.&#8221;

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Patrick Clancy, through attorney Howard Cooper, threatened legal action against the &#8220;minor celebrities,&#8221; &#8220;influencers,&#8221; and &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; who have claimed that he was involved in the deaths of his three young children.
Cooper released a <a href="https://x.com/hannahecotter/status/2097288132110458953">statement</a> on Tuesday warning anyone who continued promoting those claims: &#8220;Law enforcement has been notified.&#8221;
&#8220;Over the past months, Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating, and destructive defamation campaign. This campaign of misinformation has been launched and promoted by minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists who appear intent on boosting their own social media profiles and potential profit by publishing what they know to be outright falsehoods that Patrick was somehow involved in the death of his young children and other vile claims,&#8221; the statement read in part.
Cooper said growing media coverage has amplified the accusations and that the campaign has produced threats extending beyond social media.
&#8220;This campaign, now fueled by insatiable media coverage, remains at a fever pitch and has resulted in real-life threats to his reputation, livelihood, and life,&#8221; the statement continued. &#8220;Patrick has no choice but to address this situation — with the clear goal of stopping injurious behavior, creating accountability for lies that are self-serving to the perpetrators, and being able to return his attention to what matters: preserving the memory of Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy and supporting other women facing perinatal mental health challenges.&#8221;
Lindsay Clancy was charged with murdering the couple&#8217;s three children. Her defense did not dispute that she killed them but argued that severe mental illness rendered her not criminally responsible. A judge declared a mistrial Friday after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they will retry the case.
A number of social media users have nevertheless <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/us/patrick-clancy-conspiracy-theories">blamed</a> <a href="https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-clancy-didnt-do-it-why-does-the-internet-think-hes-guilty-1236838968/">Patrick Clancy</a> for the deaths of his children — with some of them claiming that he&#8217;d manipulated Lindsay into believing that she had killed them.
Former &#8220;Real Housewives of Beverly Hills&#8221; star Lisa Rinna was among those claiming that Patrick Clancy was guilty, saying in a TikTok video on August 17, &#8220;All right, he did it. Patrick did it. Patrick’s the one who did it. Not Lindsay. Patrick did it. Because, you know, I also heard that women typically don’t strangle.&#8221;
Cooper concluded his statement with a stark warning to anyone who continued to spread those claims.
&#8220;Enough is enough — this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Those responsible should understand that there will be consequences, and every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable, including legally.&#8221;

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Paris officials are investigating after Eiffel Tower employees went on strike to protest instructions that female workers avoid contact with a visiting Hindu delegation, shutting down the landmark for the day.
The visiting group was Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS), which <a title="https://www.baps.org/" href="https://www.baps.org/" target="_self" rel="">describes itself</a> as a “volunteer-driven fellowship” within the Swaminarayan sect, a branch of Hinduism. The request, according to multiple <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/09/08/paris-uproar-after-eiffel-tower-restricts-female-staff-hindu-groups-visit/">reports</a>, was for staff on-site to limit interactions between members of the group and female employees.
Female staffers said they were effectively told to &#8220;make themselves invisible&#8221; by either remaining out of sight or leaving their posts entirely during the group&#8217;s Saturday visit. The delegation was in the Paris area for events marking the inauguration of a new Hindu temple on Sunday.
<p class="paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmts6nx6t00053b6r4n1wav47@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">Diane Davoine, a union representative for Eiffel Tower employees, said management responded to the request by replacing female workers with men.
<p class="paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmts6nx6t00053b6r4n1wav47@published" data-editable="text" data-component-name="paragraph" data-article-gutter="true">&#8220;Women were asked to leave their places of work in order to place men there,&#8221; Davoine said. &#8220;So that absolutely does not go down well with the employees, with women obviously, who are all humiliated by what happened, by the way some were treated.&#8221;
Employees went on strike Monday, closing the landmark for the day. It reopened Tuesday. Ariel Weil, the president of the Eiffel Tower Operating Company (SETE), sided with employees and called the incident &#8220;totally shocking and unacceptable.&#8221;
BAPS released a <a href="https://x.com/BAPSParis/status/2097042887146156073/photo/2">statement</a> after the backlash, apologizing for any &#8220;pain or inconvenience.&#8221;
&#8220;We understand the concerns expressed and take them very seriously. Given the size of our delegation, the visit was organized in coordination with the Eiffel Tower teams, at the start of normal opening hours, in order to limit as much as possible any disruption for other visitors. To our knowledge, at no time was access to the Eiffel Tower denied to anyone,&#8221; the statement read.
&#8220;Nevertheless, we wish to offer our sincere apologies to anyone who may have been hurt or inconvenienced by this situation,&#8221; the group continued. &#8220;We are deeply committed to the universal values of mutual respect and service to others.&#8221;
In a later <a href="https://apnews.com/article/eiffel-tower-paris-hindu-women-strike-baps-ba972660ee086097a8bf1684d6a5bed1">statement</a> to the Associated Press, BAPS said its coordination with Eiffel Tower management was &#8220;never, at any point, intended as a request rooted in gender&#8221; and that any suggestion otherwise did not reflect the group&#8217;s values.
&#8220;It is not acceptable that such conditions can be tolerated,&#8221; Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said, adding that there would be a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/travel/eiffel-tower-strike-female-staff-baps-hindu-group-intl-hnk">full investigation</a> into the situation. &#8220;These are neither my values, nor those that the Eiffel Tower should uphold, where everyone should be able to move about and act freely, without distinction between women and men.&#8221;

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Humanoid robots programmed to win foot races, boxing matches, and street dance competitions may soon be reprogrammed with a very different strategy in mind: combat.
Communist China, according to recent reports, is eyeing technology showcased at the recent World Humanoid Robot Games for battlefield use. Reuters reported on Monday that the People&#8217;s Liberation Army&#8217;s official newspaper called for a move to develop combatant capabilities in the humanoid robots that danced, ran, and boxed at the games.
During the games, some robots completed the 100-meter dash faster than track-and-field legend Usain Bolt&#8217;s world-record time.
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Boxing matches showed the robots&#8217; potential in hand-to-hand combat.
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Reuters, after reviewing &#8220;more than 100 Chinese military procurement notices, academic studies, patents, official publications, government records and defense-company materials,&#8221; concluded that the Chinese government has dramatically accelerated robotics research and development for eventual battlefield use.
According to <a href="https://institute.bankofamerica.com/content/dam/transformation/humanoid-robots.pdf">BofA Global Research</a>, Chinese developers and manufacturers account for about 95% of humanoid robot shipments in 2025.
China is not the only nation moving toward robot-centered combat missions.
The United States military recently tested unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) within formations of M2A4 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. Video from the exercise shows at least five FireAnt unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) being carried into operations by the Bradleys during the U.S. Army’s Pegasus Charge 3 experiment with the 1st Cavalry Division.
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US Army Bradley fighting vehicle was filmed carrying five small AI-powered robot swarm units on its side racks during exercises at Fort Hood, previewing a future where armored vehicles serve as motherships for expendable ground robots.
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Robotics systems have also become a major factor in recent conflicts around the world, including the fighting involving Iran and the war between Russia and Ukraine. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/drone-guided-fully-by-ai-kills-three-civilians">recent report</a> indicated that Russia has used an experimental navigation system that relies on artificial intelligence to guide unmanned drones toward targets in Ukraine.
In that case, human operators programmed the drone’s navigation system to key in on a generalized target—a particular building, a military base, or a gas station—and the AI was supposed to fine-tune the target once it was within range.
The risk of using such technology in combat — whether in drones or humanoid robots — is that AI is far less likely to distinguish civilians from combatants, and without a human operator, it would be much harder to stop an errant robot in real time.

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Lindsay Clancy&#8217;s murder trial may have ended in a mistrial, but attorneys are still working on a civil suit blaming hospitals and doctors for the &#8220;spiderweb of tragedy&#8221; that culminated in Clancy killing her three young children.
The <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/11ovfKkB--t63zIpLhTQVONRlKC0FLDlc/view">lawsuit</a> was first filed in January and accuses a number of medical professionals and hospitals of exacerbating the situation by failing to properly diagnose and treat Clancy&#8217;s condition in time to prevent tragedy.
Attorney Andrew Meyer <a href="https://www.wcvb.com/article/lindsay-clancys-attorneys-allege-medical-failures-in-civil-case/73622984?fbclid=IwZnRzaAULy-dwZG9mAWZkaWQWUN8WAvSH4naP_pDEuVelfHiWgII-3GV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR65lV3L7ZS8_pkVMdGUHRtvnvzyHnPC-CvGHIFNYg6pk0lMJTI5hfiCIX5WYA_aem_f1C5jwR0qL14cXcMlXHEqg">explained</a>, &#8220;She screamed out for help. She went to every available resource that you could possibly imagine, and more than many people would ever have imagined to try and get help, yet she continued to go on a downward spiral.&#8221;
Dr. Jennifer Tufts and nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, both of whom testified during Clancy&#8217;s criminal trial, are named in the suit along with a number of others.
The suit alleges that the providers who treated Clancy failed to diagnose her with bipolar disorder and then proceeded to prescribe treatments that made her worse — and ultimately &#8220;exacerbated her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break.&#8221;
That psychotic break, the suit alleges, is what led to Clancy hallucinating a man&#8217;s voice that told her to kill her children and then herself — and what brought her to the point where she was unable to control her own actions, leaving her feeling as though she was observing herself from the outside.
One example given in the lawsuit describes an adverse reaction Clancy had to the antidepressant Zoloft — as well as negative effects from Prozac and Seroquel — that should have been red flags for the doctors treating her.
The suit also mentions her consecutive calls in December 2022 to suicide hotlines and then to crisis support — both of which she said could not help her because she did not have a specific plan in mind to end her own life — and the fact that she then had herself admitted to McLean Hospital just weeks later. The care at McLean, according to the lawsuit, was substandard.
&#8220;Had this seed not been allowed to grow into, just, a tremendous spiderweb of tragedy, we wouldn&#8217;t be here today,&#8221; Meyer claimed.
Clancy&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lindsay-clancy-trial-ends-in-mistrial-after-defenses-hail-mary-attempt">criminal trial</a>, which began on July 20, ended with a hung jury and a mistrial — and a dramatic eleventh-hour attempt by the defense to get the lone holdout thrown off the jury — but the next steps are still uncertain.
Clancy is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital pending a decision on a new criminal trial.

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Attorney Kevin Reddington wasted no time in moving on to his next case, confirming during a Friday press conference that he would be defending another Massachusetts woman — this one accused of killing her own grandmother for money.
After Friday&#8217;s announcement confirming a hung jury and a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy — in the murders of her three young children — Reddington told reporters that he was moving ahead with a defense for Kelsie Cote in the 2022 death of her grandmother, Doris Cote.
Referring to Cote as &#8220;a very nice young lady,&#8221; Reddington told the press, &#8220;Between Lindsay and Kelsie, I’ll get it done.&#8221;
Prosecutors have alleged that Kelsie Cote, now 30, had attacked her 74-year-old grandmother with a pair of scissors and a paperweight in Doris&#8217;s home office — and then dragged or moved her body to the stairs in an effort to disguise the injuries and make it appear as though the elderly woman had fallen — between 7:30 p.m. and midnight on Halloween night, 2022.
Cote <a href="https://www.berkshireeagle.com/breaking/kelsie-cote-north-adams--pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-her-grandmother-on-halloween/article_43d25dcc-5ea9-11ed-9836-1ba2e36516c8.html">told authorities</a> that she discovered her grandmother&#8217;s body around 10 a.m. on November 1. Six hours later, she called her father for help — and he was the first to dial 911 when he arrived. Investigators quickly found several injuries that did not make sense if Doris Cote had fallen: sharp force injuries to the back of her head as well as at least one cut on her thumb that appeared to be defensive in nature. They also found evidence suggesting that Doris had been killed in her office and dragged to the stairs.
Police also found bloody towels and cleaning solution near where they believed Doris was killed — and Kelsie explained that she&#8217;d tried to clean up because she believed her grandmother was a &#8220;clean freak&#8221; and would be mad about the mess.
Cote had reportedly been close to her grandmother in years past — even living with her for a time — but Berkshire District Attorney Timothy Shugrue said she&#8217;d developed a drug addiction that factored into the killing. Shugrue also said that Cote had allegedly gotten her grandmother to name her as beneficiary of an estate worth more than $1 million.
Shugrue told local news outlet <a href="https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/murder-case-kelsie-cote-cellular-devices/article_c3fdfb72-dcf2-11ef-8f0e-b7a0ec92c192.html">The Berkshire Eagle</a> that Cote had made several damning internet searches prior to her grandmother&#8217;s death — including one detailing the anatomy of the human skull. Bloody clothes — along with the scissors and paperweight Cote was accused of using to kill her grandmother — were reportedly found in the younger woman&#8217;s 2014 Chevrolet Malibu.
Cote, as reported by The Eagle, has pleaded not guilty to all charges, including &#8220;first-degree murder; armed assault to murder a person over 60; two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon on a person over 60; and evidence tampering.&#8221;
Cote&#8217;s trial was <a href="https://www.berkshireeagle.com/crime/kelsie-cote-lindsey-clancy-case/article_c2fdc472-570a-4af4-9cea-bcf0c724bb2e.html">delayed</a> by Reddington&#8217;s involvement with the high-profile Clancy case, but following its dramatic conclusion on Friday, he is scheduled to appear at an evidence suppression hearing for Cote on September 28. It is unclear what evidence Reddington is looking to suppress.

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Democrats can&#8217;t run fast enough from the fallout surrounding a former Westchester police bigwig&#8217;s arrest in connection with a gang-related shooting.
Former Mount Vernon Deputy Police Commissioner Jennifer Lackard has been charged with attempted murder after authorities say she and her ex-con husband James Lackard drove the getaway car for her son — known Slutty Gang member Chase Lackard — when he shot at a rival gang member in the Bronx last June.
As The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/09/07/us-news/scandal-over-ny-police-bigwig-linked-to-sons-gang-shooting-has-dems-running-for-the-hills/">reported</a>, local Democrats are not terribly interested in Lackard&#8217;s case — except in the most generic of terms — and the reason appears to be political. Westchester, after being known for decades as a Republican stronghold, has shifted dramatically leftward in recent years — and was even touted in 2022 as the &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/11/26/in-a-political-shift-sixth-borough-westchester-trends-dem/">Sixth Borough</a>.&#8221;
The most recent election data shows that Mount Vernon has some 44,000 registered voters: 31,000 are Democrats compared to just 2,800 Republicans.
Lackard, who was hired as part of a police reform initiative in 2020, is seen as part of that shift. Democratic Mount Vernon Mayor Shawyn Patterson-Howard tapped Lackard — who had no prior law enforcement experience — for the newly created position of deputy commissioner overseeing the department&#8217;s wellness initiatives.
Governor Kathy Hochul&#8217;s office, rather than address Lackard&#8217;s case specifically, gave The Post a vague statement condemning police misconduct in the most general of terms.
&#8220;Governor [Kathy] Hochul’s top priority is public safety,&#8221; a spokesperson for the governor said. &#8220;Those entrusted with keeping New Yorkers safe must be held to the highest ethical and professional standards, and anyone whose actions jeopardize the critical mission of law enforcement must be investigated and held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.&#8221;
While State Sen. Jamaal Bailey did condemn Lackard&#8217;s actions in more specific terms, he gave the city some wiggle room by saying that they never could have predicted her behavior when they hired her for the six-figure job.
&#8220;While these allegations are unacceptable and incredibly serious, it’s important to note that it’s not possible to predict the future behavior of any employee,&#8221; Bailey said. &#8220;The purported conduct did not occur during the course of or related to her duties and should have no bearing on how the department is viewed.&#8221;
Lackard is accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-official-accused-of-helping-son-carry-out-gang-hit">driving the car</a> at least part of the time when she and her husband first delivered their gang-affiliated son to a court appearance and then drove him around the area near the courthouse so that he could open fire from the vehicle on a rival gang member. He did not hit his intended target, but drove away with his parents. All three were eventually arrested in connection with the attempted hit.
Republican National Committee spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre told The Post that there was no excuse for the Democrats refusing to address the case head-on: &#8220;Democrats are the first to preach ‘no one is above the law’ until it screws them politically. This thug-hugging mom had no business being a police commissioner and any official who covered for her should be held to account.&#8221;
White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis added, “Yet again, extreme liberal Democrats are protecting criminals over law abiding American citizens.&#8221;

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&#8220;Rosie the Riveter&#8221; wasn&#8217;t a single person.
There were actually millions of Rosies: women who stepped up to work in factories and shipyards to keep the United States humming while the men who typically held those jobs were away fighting in World War II. Every &#8220;Rosie&#8221; was an integral part of the war effort, doing whatever it took to step up for her country.
A new campaign from Independent Women, a nonprofit advocacy group for women, wants to bring that patriotic spirit back for America&#8217;s 250th birthday. There isn&#8217;t the same workforce crisis as there was 80 years ago, but there is perhaps a greater crisis when it comes to patriotism. A recent Gallup poll found that American pride fell to a 25-year low, with the sharpest decline among women.
In the past year, the <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/711938/american-pride-falls-year-record-low.aspx">number of American women</a> who said they were extremely proud to be an American fell 13 points, to just 26%. Another <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/697382/record-numbers-younger-women-leave.aspx">poll</a> found that two out of every five younger women would permanently leave the country if possible.
&#8220;Young women have been taught that patriotism is embarrassing and contempt for America is a badge of intelligence,&#8221; Meaghan Mobbs, director of Independent Women’s Center for American Safety and Security, told The Daily Wire.
Mobbs, who is a combat veteran herself, says women should be proud to contribute to America, and that military service is far from the only way to do it. She believes the spirit of &#8220;Rosie the Riveter&#8221; is what&#8217;s needed to reverse that tide.
&#8220;Rosie 250 matters because it offers a powerful counterexample — generations of American women who understood that strength meant contributing to their country, not sneering at it,&#8221; Mobbs said. &#8220;As America turns 250, we have an opportunity to give young women something worth inheriting — a sense of pride, purpose, responsibility, and ownership in the nation they will help lead.&#8221;
The campaign says that a Rosie is &#8220;a woman who loves her country, chooses her own path, and uses her strength, talent, and freedom to build something bigger than herself.&#8221;
&#8220;She serves where she is needed, stands alongside the men in her life, and believes America is worth strengthening for the next generation,&#8221; Independent Women says.
While the Rosie of World War II was portrayed as a blue-collar factory worker, this campaign makes it clear that there are many more ways to step up in the current era.
&#8220;There is no single right way to be a woman,&#8221; the campaign says. &#8220;She may raise a family, build a career, serve her country, lead her community, or forge a path entirely her own. Every one of those lives helps build a stronger America.&#8221;

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