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The illegal immigrant who was shot after allegedly ramming his car into federal agents in Los Angeles is a TikTok star famous for recording ICE arrests. Carlitos Ricardo Parias — who was hit in the elbow Tuesday in a tense standoff where a US marshal was also shot — is known as Richard LA on TikTok, where he has more than 130,000 followers, ABC 7 reported. Federal agents aim their guns at a driver during a shooting in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 21, 2025. X/@USAttyEssayli Carlitos Ricardo Parias, better known as Richard LA on TikTok, was identified as the illegal…

North Korea fired what appeared to be multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, a week before a key Asia-Pacific leaders’ meeting in South Korea. It was the first launch of ballistic missiles since May by Pyongyang, which has defied a United Nations Security Council ban on the weapons. It was also the first such launch since Lee Jae Myung was elected president in South Korea, with a platform of engagement with North Korea. A South Korean news broadcast shows file footage of a North Korean missile test on Oct. 22, 2025. AFP via Getty Images Lee and US President Donald Trump are expected to meet in South Korea next week at a summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)…

US tourists described the terrifying moment they narrowly came face-to-face with the brazen Louvre Museum robbers who escaped the world-famous Paris museum with irreplaceable treasures in broad daylight. Curt Dale Clark, Artistic Director of the Maine State Music Theatre, said he and 28 others from the theatre group had only seen “five or six really fantastic pieces of art” on Sunday when they were about to “enter the room next door to the room where the robbery happened.” Clark recalled that Louvre security guards suddenly began acting “horrible and rude” toward them, but didn’t understand what was happening since no…

Make it three straight weeks that the No. 1 team in Tom Brady’s power rankings has gone down. After getting anointed as the No. 1 team last week, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lost decisively to the Detroit Lions in Week 7. The result was just one of many that’s brought some chaos to the top as we continue to figure out who the contenders in the league are nearly halfway through the season. Even the GOAT needed some help to round out his latest top 10, so much so that he called upon a coin to help him pick his 10th team.…

An emergency has been declared on a cruise ship after a “passenger went overboard,” a tourist claims. Passengers on the Norwegian Jewel – currently en route from Barcelona to Miami – say they were woken up at 2 a.m. with “code Oscar starboard” blaring out of the speakers – a maritime emergency signal for a person overboard. A passenger claims staff on the cruise confirmed someone had “gone overboard” and the cruise ship is in “search and rescue mode” – currently circling the Atlantic Ocean. The Norwegian cruise liner set sail from Barcelona on October 15. A British passenger, who wanted…

Offering up confusion. A Detroit pastor is under fire for ridiculing a worshipper who attempted to gift $1,200 to the church instead of the $2,000 he had requested during a fundraiser — as the minister defended his now-viral stance on giving. Perfecting Church’s Bishop Marvin Winans was caught on camera sneering at a woman’s charity in front of her face as she delivered the large donation to the church during the congregation’s “Day of Giving” on Oct. 19. Perfecting Church congregant Roberta McCoy offers $1,235 to her church during a “Day of Giving” event on Oct. 19, 2025. Perfecting Church…

Crews in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday rescued 80 miners who became trapped after a mine partially collapsed. No one was injured or killed, according to the Civil Defense Agency. The miners became trapped when a portion of a zinc and copper mine in the Cerros of Maimón collapsed, a statement from the Ministry of Energy and Mines said. Rescue crews in the Dominican Republic freed 80 miners on Tuesday after they became trapped when part of a mine collapsed. @José Gutiérrez/Instagram The mine is located in a rural area northwest of the capital, Santo Domingo, where relatives had anxiously awaited the…

Disgraced ex-Long Island Rep. George Santos revealed he is fleeing the Big Apple if Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor — as he urged Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa to form a “coalition.” “Sadly it seems that my family and I will be departing the city I’ve called home my entire life. NYC will become a very dangerous place to live in if we elect mayor Mamdani and that is a risk I am unwilling to take now that I want to start growing my family,” Santos wrote on X Tuesday. The left-wing Democratic nominee holds a double-digit lead…

Shutdown like it’s 1995.  The ongoing government shutdown became the second-longest in US history Wednesday, surpassing the 1995-1996 lapse in federal funding as it dragged into day 22 with no end in sight.  Senate Democrats have blocked Republican attempts to reopen the government 11 times since Oct. 1, when all but three members of the caucus voted against moving forward with a House-passed measure to keep federal departments and agencies funded at current levels through Nov. 21.  The Senate will gavel in at 10 a.m. Wednesday to try yet again to end the shutdown, as Democratic leaders demand a meeting…

Pope Leo XIV canonized seven religious figures who were posthumously boosted to sainthood on Sunday, including a former Satanic priest turned Catholic legend. More than 70,000 onlookers turned out to the Vatican to witness the historic canonization, the second done by Pope Leo XIV’s since he was chosen as the new leader of the Catholic Church in May. Italian lawyer and former Satanic Church priest Bartolo Longo was canonized as a saint on Sunday. Getty Images Among the celebrated lineup of figures was former Satanic priest Bartolo Longo, an Italian lawyer who found his way back to Catholicism and even…