Preliminary autopsy results in the death of actress Hayden Panettiere found no signs of trauma that contributed to her death, offering the first official medical update after the 36-year-old star was found unresponsive inside a South Carolina apartment.
Panettiere was pronounced dead Sunday after police and paramedics responded to Greenville's Judson Mill Lofts following a report of an unresponsive woman and a suspected overdose.
A 911 call came in at 1:51 p.m. A female dispatcher described Panettiere as suffering a "cardiac arrest." Moments later, a male dispatcher reported a suspected overdose at the residence.
Emergency workers performed chest compressions and other lifesaving measures, but Panettiere was pronounced dead at 2:32 p.m., roughly 40 minutes after the initial call.
"First responders and Emergency Medical Services arrived on scene and located a female in cardiac arrest," the Greenville County Coroner's Office said in a statement. "EMS personnel initiated advanced cardiac
Chilling new testimony in the trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy revealed that she had disclosed thoughts of harming her children weeks before she strangled all three of them inside the family's Duxbury home.
Clancy's mother, Paula Musgrove, took the stand Monday as the defense began presenting its case following weeks of testimony from prosecutors seeking to prove the killings were deliberate and planned.
Clancy, 36, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.
Her attorneys do not dispute that Clancy killed the children. Instead, they argue she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from severe mental illness, including what the defense says was undiagnosed postpartum psychosis.
Musgrove testified that her daughter began showing increasingly alarming signs of mental deterioration in the months before the killings.
By December 2022, Clancy had disclosed
Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff dragged a female White House aide into his attacks on President Donald Trump, using a crude insinuation unsupported by any evidence as he fights to keep his seat in November.
The Democrat and potential 2028 presidential contender targeted Natalie Harp, Trump's executive assistant, during a Sunday campaign rally in Atlanta.
"While the sailors on the Lincoln fight his war, while he fruitlessly drains our munitions and oil reserves, the president sleeps through his meetings, he golfs, and trades stocks," Ossoff said.
He then turned his fire on Harp.
"He doesn't want to do the job. He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the Emir of Qatar," Ossoff said.
The line drew cheers from the Democratic crowd and attention on X, where commenters zeroed in on Ossoff's decision to invoke Harp by her first name.
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President Donald Trump unloaded on CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes in the Oval Office on Monday, repeatedly ordering her to "be quiet" after she interrupted him with questions about aide Natalie Harp.
The tense exchange unfolded as Trump was responding to criticism from Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, who had mocked the president over his relationship with Harp during a rally in Georgia.
Holmes asked Trump about Ossoff's claim that he would rather "build his ballroom and travel with Natalie" than do the job of president.
Trump fired back by ridiculing the Georgia Democrat and defending renovations at the White House.
Trump called Ossoff a "Pee Wee Herman lookalike" and said that "we're fixing a White House that hasn't been taken care of."
Holmes then attempted to jump in with another question about South Korea before Trump had finished speaking.
That did not go over well.
'Quiet. Quiet. Quiet!' Trump shouted at Holmes.
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A Michigan Democrat's campaign aide compared Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers' patriotic Woodward Dream Cruise video to white flight and a Ku Klux Klan cross burning.
Rogers posted footage Sunday showing him riding in the passenger seat of an antique red Ford pickup as it cruised down the road with two American flags flying from the tailgate. Toby Keith's "American Ride" played in the background.
"Gotta love this American Ride! There's no better way to do the Woodward Dream Cruise!" Rogers wrote in the post accompanying the video.
But Mason Pressler, El-Sayed's political manager in northern Michigan, saw something far darker in the display.
"Mike Rogers' campaign has the aesthetics of a 1960s white flight suburb and a KKK cross burning," Pressler said on X.
The Mike Rogers campaign quickly fired back, accusing Pressler of believing that "driving a Michigan-made Ford truck is akin to the KKK."
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House investigators have opened a probe into Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California over serious allegations that include "inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer."
The House Ethics Committee announced the investigation Monday, putting the longtime Democratic lawmaker under fresh scrutiny as Capitol Hill continues to grapple with allegations of misconduct involving members and their staff.
Gomez, who has served in Congress since 2017, acknowledged that he had been unfaithful to his wife but insisted the relationships were consensual and did not violate the law or House rules.
The allegations are particularly striking given Gomez's public role as founder and chair of the Congressional Dads Caucus, which says it was created to "ensure that dads step up at home and in the halls of Congress."
Gomez is married and has one child.
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Dolly Parton is giving fans a reassuring health update after a string of medical issues forced the country music legend to cancel her Las Vegas residency and scale back travel.
The 80-year-old singer was expected to attend the Aug. 14 grand opening of NightFlight Expedition, a new attraction at Dollywood, but instead appeared in a prerecorded video from her home in Nashville.
Parton explained that her doctor advised her not to make the roughly 200-mile trip to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, because she had been dealing with dizziness and dehydration.
"I've told you before, all my fans, that I've had a few little health issues and sometimes I get a little dizzy and I get dehydrated. And I'm dehydrated," she said. "So my Nashville doctor has kind of clipped my wings, saying, 'You ain't traveling this week.' So I guess if your doctor tells you, 'You ain't traveling
Seattle's socialist mayor is taking fire from fellow Democrats as a recall drive threatens to cut short her rocky tenure at City Hall.
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson appeared to take a swipe at Mayor Katie Wilson this week by reposting journalist Ari Hoffman's blistering account of her response to the July 27 mass shooting at the Bite of Seattle food festival.
Three people were killed in the bloodshed.
Hoffman reported that Wilson refused to speak or turn on her camera during an emergency Zoom call hastily arranged for Washington leaders after the shooting.
When Hoffman filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records of the call, Ferguson's office said it did not have a recording.
The Democratic governor's account then shared Hoffman's post targeting Wilson, an unexpected move that caught the conservative journalist by surprise.
Hoffman wrote on X that the repost "wasn't on my bingo card for today."
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"Today" host Craig Melvin became visibly emotional during Monday's broadcast after a touching cancer-related segment hit especially close to home.
The moment unfolded during Jenna Bush Hager's regular "Morning Boost" segment, which featured a grandmother being surprised by her granddaughter during her final chemotherapy treatment.
As the clip ended, Bush Hager noticed Melvin struggling to hold back his emotions.
"Oh, Craig, you have the Monday feels over there," she said, adding that the clip was "pretty sweet, right?"
Co-host Carson Daly jumped in with some light teasing.
"Look, he does have a heart!"
Melvin then explained why the story had hit him so hard.
"Yeah, well, my mom rang the bell today, so, yeah, that's a good one."
Daly quickly realized the deeper meaning behind the reaction.
"It hits home. That's what the Boost does!"
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Melvin's mother, Betty Jo Melvin, was
The Trump administration is publicly rebuking Israel after the longtime U.S. ally carried out airstrikes on a Syrian military base, calling the attack an unnecessary escalation that could undermine stability in the region.
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said Washington was "deeply concerned" by the Israeli strikes on Abu al-Duhur Airbase in Syria.
Barrack argued that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa has not taken the same approach as the regime that came before him and has instead signaled that he wants to avoid a wider confrontation with Israel.
According to Barrack, al-Sharaa has not "adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces" and has "repeatedly indicated a preference for de-escalation with Israel."
The ambassador said the United States believes diplomacy and restraint remain the better path as tensions continue to simmer across the Middle East.
Barrack said the U.S. "continues to believe that restraint and engagement offer the more
An Alaska Airlines flight bound for Seattle was forced back to the gate Sunday evening after two unruly passengers allegedly threatened to seize control of the aircraft, prompting the crew to trigger a cockpit lockdown and call for law enforcement.
The Boeing 737 had pushed back from the gate at Miami International Airport and was taxiing for departure around 6:40 p.m. when the situation escalated.
According to air traffic control audio obtained by ATCapp, the pilot alerted controllers that the crew was responding to a serious onboard disturbance.
"Ramp, Alaska 305, we have set the parking brake and we have a customer disturbance onboard right now, with threats coming from customers," the pilot said.
"We want to go into a lockdown protocol. We are shutting down the engine and parking brake set."
Cockpit lockdown procedures are designed to protect the flight deck whenever its security may be at risk,
A massive 7.4-magnitude earthquake rocked western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 20 people, collapsing buildings and sending terrified residents fleeing into the streets as rescuers scrambled to reach the hardest-hit areas.
The powerful quake was centered near San José del Palmar in the western department of Chocó, roughly 173 miles west of Bogotá.
The shaking was felt across a wide swath of Colombia, including the capital, where emergency alarms sounded and residents evacuated buildings as a precaution.
The death toll climbed rapidly Monday morning as authorities received reports from devastated communities closer to the epicenter.
At least 18 people were reported dead in Pereira, while additional deaths were confirmed in Manizales. More recent reports placed the nationwide toll at at least 22 as emergency crews continued searching damaged structures.
Authorities warned that the casualty count could rise as rescuers reach collapsed buildings and isolated areas.
In Cali, officials reported
