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The mother of freed Israeli soldier Matan Angrest said her son was beaten so savagely by his Hamas captors that he blacked out — in one of many chilling accounts emerging since the release of 20 surviving hostages under the Israel–Hamas peace deal this week. “He remembers being beaten so badly that he lost consciousness,” Anat Angrest told local media in Israel as she described her son’s ordeal after his abduction on Oct. 7, 2023. “They covered him with black sacks and dragged him away,” she told Haaretz. Angrest, an Israel Defense Forces soldier taken from his tank near Gaza,…

Four people have been arrested in connection with a shooting spree at a Mississippi homecoming football game that killed six and injured more than a dozen, according to authorities. Teviyon L. Powell, 29; William Bryant, 29; and Morgan Lattimore, 25, have been charged with capital murder, and Latoya A. Powell, 44, has been charged with attempted murder for Friday’s shooting, a spokesperson for the FBI’s Jackson Field Office announced Monday. On Sunday, the agency released photos of one female and three males shown in surveillance video and identified in an FBI poster as “unknown suspects.” FBI Jackson Earlier this week,…

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. We are in the middle of the NFL bye weeks, injuries are piling up, and selecting the right players for your fantasy football roster can be difficult if you aren’t looking in the right place.  Most people simply look at what happened last week and pick players who scored the most points, regardless of context. They are the point-chasers, and they make their decision on what was. The savvy managers have a deeper knowledge…

Coherent action from multidisciplinary teams requires that everyone be playing the same game. But the less time team members have spent together—or the more the situation around them changes—the harder it is to agree on what game that is. Unfortunately, newly formed groups and rapidly changing situations are exactly what you’re likely to face when leading a team through an emergency. So when you’re leading (or working on) a multidisciplinary team, how do you make sure everyone understands the mission and starts moving in a common direction? The answer is the meta-conversation—the one you have before you start actually working…

BETHEL, Alaska – New video shows the powerful flooding ongoing in western Alaska from the remnants of Typhoon Halong, which has caused widespread damage along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, displacing families as first responders continue to search for unaccounted people.  The powerful coastal storm moved into the Bering Sea on Sunday, packing hurricane-force wind gusts, big waves and major coastal flooding for the Kuskokwim Delta and communities south of the Bering Strait. However, storm surge and heavy rain has been ongoing since last week from another storm system, creating a dire situation. The video above from Bethel showed powerful flooding washing away boats and damaging infrastructure over the…

Alec Baldwin blamed a hulking garbage truck that was the “size of a whale” for causing him to smash his wife’s Range Rover into a “big, fat tree” in the Hamptons Monday afternoon. Baldwin, 67, and his younger brother Stephen Baldwin were in a car crash after smacking right into a tree on the side of Montauk Highway in East Hampton. Alec Baldwin was in a car crash in East Hampton, NY on Monday afternoon. Matt Agudo/INSTARimages The brothers, who were born and raised an hour outside the suburban Long Island paradise, were enjoying a cruise in Hilaria Baldwin’s white…

You really can’t tell the life story of actor R.A. Mihailoff without bringing up Jeff Burr.Not only did the late director give him the break of a lifetime with the title role in 1990’s Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Mihailoff also counts him among his nearest and dearest friends — in and out of the film business.“I met him when he was a student at the University of Southern California film school,” Mihailoff recounted at a convention stop in the northwest exurbs of Atlanta on Oct. 11. “Him putting me in Texas Chainsaw Massacre III changed my life — probably…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang sent a letter to the chip giant’s staff on Monday expressing gratitude for the release of Avinatan Or, an Israeli employee of the company who was released from Hamas captivity after two years. Or was attending the Nova music festival with his partner, Noa Argamani, near Kibbutz Reim when Hamas conducted a terror attack against communities near the Gaza border on October 7, 2023. Or and Argamani were both taken captive and held separately. Argamani was rescued in June 2024 during an Israeli military operation and was a prominent advocate for the release of Or and other hostages after she…

Justin Baldoni’s former agent Danny Greenberg compared Blake Lively’s alleged behavior on the set of the 2024 film “It Ends With Us” to “extortion” in court docs. The WME agent, who represented the actor while he worked on the movie, allegedly sent Baldoni suggestions on a letter to send to Sony regarding Lively’s alleged “effort to gain control of the film” in July 2024, according to court documents obtained by Page Six Monday. Per a transcript of Greenberg’s deposition testimony, his “use of the word extortion” was “referencing [Lively’s] cumulative behavior” that Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, had…

‘Gotta Give’ Diane her due Diane Keaton. I once reported she had five cats. A one of a kind. In ’84, Diane enrolled in a dramatic workshop. In ’85, she bought $100 worth of Life magazines to research a certain dress period — same year she figured into an ABC-TV agreement while consuming a medium hamburger at then hotshot spot Maxwell’s Plum. In the ’80s, she and Warren Beatty played His & Hers. In ’97, she wore white wristie gloves all night. In ’96 she said: “Most people look like they haven’t even experienced life.” In ’22, said: “ ‘The Godfather’ established my…