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A moronic wannabe influencer is getting blasted on social media for bragging about flying to Jamaica ahead of Hurricane Melissa — the strongest Category 5 storm expected to ever lash the island. Hannah Grubbs has posted a slew of wild videos to TikTok and Instagram in recent days boasting about riding out the potentially catastrophic storm at her resort in Negril. “Hurricane Melissa out here messing with my vacation,” she whined on one video of her posing on her hotel balcony. Influencer Hannah Grace is under fire after boasting about her trip to Jamaica as the the island country braces…

This post is a review of How To Change A Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest To Alter The Past. By Steve Ramirez. Princeton University Press. 238 pp. $29.95. “Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,” Macbeth prayed. “Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow /Raze out the written troubles of the brain /And with some sweet oblivious antidote /Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff /Which weighs upon the heart?” During the last 30 years, Steve Ramirez indicates, neuroscientists have brought that wish closer to a reality. We now understand how and where our brains receive, store, and retrieve…

In the aftermath of the greatest outing of his career, which just happened to come in the biggest game of his life, Dodgers reliever Will Klein had a franchise icon approach him in the clubhouse. Sandy Koufax, the standard for Dodgers’ pitchers, sought out the unheralded 25-year-old righty to applaud him on his four shutout innings in extras that bought time for the Dodgers’ 6-5 walk-off win in 18 innings in Game 3 of the World Series on Tuesday night. “Nice going,” Koufax told Klein, according to ESPN. While Game 3 may be remembered more in time for Freddie Freeman’s…

A search is underway in the Mediterranean Sea after a crew member on the Viking Star went overboard during a cruise on Monday morning. A spokesperson for Viking Cruises confirmed to Fox News Digital that a member of the crew was seen going overboard at 11:31 a.m. local time. The ship immediately activated its emergency response and began a search in coordination with the Italian Coast Guard. The spokesperson said no further details were available at this time. The eight-day, seven-night Viking ocean cruise began in Athens, Greece, before sailing to Turkey and the Greek island of Crete. During the journey on Monday…

An anti-Israel transgender rabbi who was once tossed out of the White House has become the face of a “Jews for Zohran” ad — as she tries to rally support for socialist mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani in the final days of the election. Abby Stein, a part-time rabbi at Brooklyn’s progressive Kolot Chayein synagogue, is among a handful of female rabbis featured in the ad recently put out by the Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. Abby Stein is one of several female rabbis featured in a new ad released by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. X / @AbbyChavaStein…

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s latest threats that Moscow is preparing to deploy its new “invincible” nuclear-powered cruise missile has drawn a rebuke from President Trump and a reminder of America’s own nuclear might. But experts say the Burevestnik missile could end up being more like a disastrous “flying Chernobyl” for Russia — and proves Putin is actually nervous about the possibility of the US giving Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin inspecting a military exercise via video link. ALEXANDER KAZAKOV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock George Barros, of the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, described Putin’s ominous Sunday announcement as…

WASHINGTON — Dozens of Joe Biden’s executive actions “cannot all be deemed his own” after his closest advisers “went to great lengths to prop up” the 46th president as he suffered physical and cognitive decline in office, according to a bombshell report released Tuesday. The House Oversight Committee staff document — based on more than a dozen interviews with Biden aides — lays out how the Democrat’s “inner circle” took steps to “meticulously stage-manage” his public appearances, lighten his private workload, and even block lawmakers from talking to him. “These steps ranged from addressing President Biden’s makeup, clothing, schedule, the…

A mass shakeup of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) leadership is underway amid growing friction inside the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over deportation tactics and priorities, according to four senior DHS officials. The overhaul affects ICE field offices in at least eight cities and will replace many senior leaders with Border Patrol officials, marking an unprecedented power shift inside DHS and exposing sharp divisions over how far to go in ramping up deportations, the officials told Fox News. The changes are being driven by competing camps inside DHS. On one side are Border Czar Tom Homan and ICE Director Todd Lyons, who…

A “frustrated” Wisconsin daycare worker allegedly broke a 3-month-old baby girl’s arm after slamming her into a crib, according to reports and authorities. Ashley Karschnick, 32, was arrested and charged with one count of physical abuse of a child for the heinous assault at Lily Pad Day Care in Fond du Lac on Oct. 13, according to Fox11. Detectives from the Fond du Lac Police Department responded to the Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee over a report of the infant’s injuries, the Fond du Lac Police Department said in a statement. Ashley Karschnick, 32, was arrested and charged with one count…

With a Crystal Lake miniseries in development at Peacock, what better time than now to discuss the last time we saw Jason Vorhees on the big screen?The last time we saw our “precious boy” was in the 2009 reboot that basically covered the narrative of the original trilogy of films. That film ended with (spoiler alert) everyone’s favorite mass murderer once again becoming “Zombie Jason” as his “lifeless” body dropped into the magical healing waters of Crystal Lake.Just when you thought it was safe to camp once again, Jason was reborn for one last scare, leaping from the water to…