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WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Wednesday that the US was rolling out some of its heaviest sanctions yet against Russia — after plans for a summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin foundered earlier this week. Moscow’s two largest energy companies — Open Joint Stock Company Rosneft Oil Company and Lukoil OAO — were hit by the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control with the crippling economic penalties to push for an end to the more than three-year-old invasion of Ukraine. “Now is the time to stop the killing and for an immediate cease-fire,” Bessent said in a statement, noting…

This pasta party spiraled out of control. One Olive Garden server says a group of carb-crazed diners turned the chain’s famous “Never-Ending Pasta Bowl” into a bottomless nightmare — racking up a shocking $150 bill and a trail of regret. “This never ending pasta gotta stop,” the exhausted employee vented on Reddit in an r/olivegarden post. “Never had a table get this many refills,” they wrote alongside a photo of the mile-long receipt. The frazzled server explained that it wasn’t even their table — it belonged to a coworker who “was obv hoarding it,” watching helplessly as the group plowed…

Josie and her bandmates are psyched to play at the haunted Eyegore Estates, but when Josie’s frenemy Alexandra Cabot (herself no stranger to the supernatural) and the South Side Serpents team up to form their own musical group, it looks like there will be a killer battle of the bands for the ultimate ghoulish gig in our exclusive preview of the new story “Scare Tactics” from Josie and the Pussycats Annual Spectacular, haunting shelves beginning November 19th from Archie Comics! You can read our scary good preview below, and as an additional Halloween treat for Daily Dead readers, we also…

Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. It’s not gone well for Derek Mason at Middle Tennessee State. Not only has Mason watched his former program, Vanderbilt, rise from the ashes under Clark Lea, but his current team is 1-5 and widely considered one of the worst in FBS. Replacing Rick Stockstill, who turned the Blue Raiders into a respectable Group of 5 outfit during his 17-year tenure in Murfreesboro, was never going to be easy, but the pressure is on…

As most of you know, President Trump signed a Proclamation on Friday, September 19, 2025, that adds a $100,000 fee for H1B applicants who are outside the US and planning to enter America. Despite the guidance from USCIS and CBP on the $100K fee for H1B applicants, some areas remained ambiguous due to a lack of clear guidance. Earlier this week, on October 20th, 2025, USCIS clarified the previously unclear areas on how the $100K fee applies to H1B applicants, including who it impacts, whether it affects renewals, and other details. This article reviews the USCIS official clarification details related…

MADRID — Spanish police have busted a criminal group dedicated to stealing your seat. Literally. Spain’s National Police said Wednesday that they had arrested seven people suspected of stealing more than 1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas at restaurants and bars in Madrid and another nearby municipality in just two months. The group of six men and a woman worked at night to pilfer the chairs from 18 different establishments in Madrid and Talavera de la Reina, a smaller city to the southwest of the capital, in August and September. The estimated impact of the stolen property was around 60,000…

Sean “Diddy” Combs survived a prison attack, according to the rapper’s longtime friend. Charlucci Finney alleged to the Daily Mail on Wednesday that the embattled music mogul “woke up with a knife to his throat” in his Metropolitan Detention Center jail cell. “I don’t know whether he fought him off or the guards came,” Finney, who has known Combs for more than 30 years, claimed without specifying when this allegedly took place. “I just know that it happened.” Sean “Diddy” Combs “woke up with a knife to his throat” in his jail cell, according to the rapper’s friend. AFP via…

Blood, glamor, and chaos collide in AMC’s first look at ‘The Vampire Lestat,’ a fever-dream resurrection of Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe. By Kirsten Saylor, iHorror Contributor – from New York Comic Con 2025 The crowd inside New York Comic Con’s Main Stage erupted as AMC unveiled an extended first look at The Vampire Lestat, the highly anticipated third season of Interview with the Vampire. For those who have followed Louis de Pointe du Lac’s tortured journey from New Orleans to Paris to some semblance of truth in Dubai, this new chapter promises something bolder, stranger, and far more drug-fueled. I…

“Out out out, damn thoughts!” is always my first and overwhelming response to intrusive thoughts. I wrote about this experience with intrusive thoughts in my book Easy Street: A Story of Redemption From Myself, where I described it as feeling like “I was under assault from within, both the perpetrator and the victim of a mental crime.” The more I tried to make the thoughts stop, the tighter they clung. The trick, I eventually discovered, was not to tighten but to loosen. Not to control but to allow. And recently, a Dutch word has helped me remember that. Uitwaaien I…

PARIS, Oct 22 — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will have two police officers stationed in nearby cells while he is in prison to ensure he comes to no harm, France’s interior minister said on Wednesday. Sarkozy on Tuesday began a five-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya, arriving at La Sante prison in Paris — a stunning downfall for a man who led the country between 2007 and 2012. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told Europe 1 radio that two police officers who are part of the security detail protecting former presidents will be stationed permanently…