Former US President Barack Obama has renewed his sharp attacks on Donald Trump following pivotal international election results.
a last-minute boost of U.S. support, but that didn’t seem to move the needle much, and Magyar won comfortably, leading Obama to gloat online.
“The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world. Most of all, it’s a testament to the resilience and determination of the Hungarian people – and a reminder to all of us to keep striving for fairness, equality and the rule of law,” Obama wrote on X.
Orban governed Hungary for 16 years, and he won each time through democratic elections.
ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (WAFB) - A naked man allegedly took a fire extinguisher from a St. Francisville church before entering a nearby home and touching a sleeping woman’s forehead, police said.
Police Chief Chris Green said the woman’s boyfriend grabbed a gun after she woke up startled. The man was still inside the home when officers arrived.
Heath Alan Brumfield, 49, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, faces charges of simple burglary, simple battery and unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling.
The incident happened around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20.
According to police, surveillance footage showed Brumfield entering a church hall through an unlocked door in the 9000 block of Royal Street. Police said he took a fire extinguisher, walked to a nearby home on the same street and entered through an unlocked door.
Green said Brumfield still had the fire extinguisher, which had the church’s information on it, when police initially took him into custody.
Green said a woman who was with Brumfield that night told officers he was “not in his right mind” while traveling along the highway. Brumfield allegedly parked his truck across from the post office and walked away with the keys.
Police said Brumfield was sent to Baton Rouge for a medical evaluation.
After authorities obtained an arrest warrant, East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputies arrested Brumfield as a fugitive, police said. He was then returned to West Feliciana Parish.
Jail records show Brumfield was arrested Monday, Oct. 26, and his bond was set at $72,500.
Police believe the incident was isolated.
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Unverified claims alleging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was killed in a recent Russian strike lack any credible evidence.
Unverified Claims of Zelenskyy’s Death Circulate Amid Fresh Russian Strikes on Ukraine
Russia has launched another wave of drone and missile strikes across Ukraine, hitting multiple regions and causing extensive damage to civilian infrastructure. Ukrainian officials reported strikes on residential buildings, power systems, and public facilities overnight. Air-raid sirens sounded in several cities as air-defense units worked to intercept incoming threats. Local authorities described multiple explosions in urban areas, prompting the rapid deployment of emergency services.
Firefighters and rescue teams responded to extinguish fires, assist the injured, and assess damage. Officials urged residents to remain in shelters and stay alert, noting the risk of further strikes. The security situation remains tense in affected areas.
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ASCENSION PARISH, La. (WAFB) - A Prairieville man accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend’s ex was sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter, officials stated.
According to District Attorney Ricky Babin’s Office, an Ascension Parish jury found Jerome Lilly, 41, guilty of manslaughter on Friday evening, June 26. He was on trial for his involvement in the shooting death of Tarrence Williams, 40.
Jerome Lilly(Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office)
Lilly was sentenced on Tuesday, Oct. 27, with credit for time served.
Officials said Williams was found dead at a home on Cherry Creek Drive in Prairieville on July 13, 2022.
Deputies arrest man in deadly Prairieville shooting
According to the district attorney’s office, Lilly called 911 and told deputies he had gotten into a fight with his girlfriend’s ex, Williams, which resulted in him shooting the man.
Officials said the two men had gotten into an argument over the phone about Williams’ kids, and Williams traveled to the home to get them.
Although there was no evidence of the argument becoming physical, Lily fired multiple shots, hitting Williams, according to the district attorney’s office.
Karmelo Anthony received a death sentence in Collin County for killing teen football star Austin Metcalf, sparking deep community debate.
The verdict dropped like a hammer. A teenager is dead, another now faces death, and a community is tearing itself apart. In that silent courtroom, everything changed in a single sentence. Grief crashed into rage. Justice collided with doubt. And when the judge read the final words, even family members stopped brea…Continues…
Austin Metcalf’s name now echoes through Collin County as more than a promising football standout; he has become the center of a painful reckoning. Friends remember his easy laugh, his relentless drive on the field, and the way teachers spoke of his potential. His empty seat in classrooms and locker rooms is a daily reminder that his future was stolen in seconds, leaving parents and classmates grappling with a loss that feels both senseless and unforgivable.
Across the aisle, Karmelo Anthony sat motionless as the death sentence was pronounced, his fate sealed by the same system that many believe failed both boys long before that night. For some, the ruling finally acknowledged the depth of the harm done. For others, it raised haunting questions about whether another life taken can ever be called justice. As appeals loom, the community waits in uneasy silence, suspended between closure and doubt.
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(AP) - Patrick Stewart, the classically trained actor who added Shakespearean gravitas to the “Star Trek” and “X-Men” franchises, has died. He was 86.
Stewart died Wednesday in Los Angeles, following “a brief and poignant journey” with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy Body Dementia, spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak said. Stewart’s diagnoses had not been previously disclosed.
While best known as Professor Charles Xavier and Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the “X-Men” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation” series and films, respectively, Stewart spent more of his career onstage than in the X-Mansion or on the USS Enterprise.
FILE -- Patrick Stewart speaks on stage after a screening of "Star Trek: Picard" at the 92nd Street Y on Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, in New York.(CJ Rivera/Invision/AP)
Besides playing everyone from Claudius to Macbeth, he often performed a one-man rendition of “A Christmas Carol” and did West End and Broadway runs of Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” in repertoire with buddy Ian McKellen.
He achieved some of the best reviews of his career when he finally tackled Macbeth for the first time. The production, under the direction of Rupert Goold, debuted in May 2007 at England’s Chichester Festival Theatre, switched to London’s West End and then moved to the Brooklyn Academy of Music before transferring to Broadway in 2008.
Stewart’s performance earned him his sole Tony Award nomination. The Times of London said his Macbeth was “an enthralling creation of frailty, appetite, egotism and grim humor.” The Daily Telegraph said he had turned in “a truly great performance” and The New York Times said it was “a must-see.”
“Nearly 50 years I’ve waited,” Stewart told The Associated Press in 2008. “I learned it when I was 14. I memorized all the soliloquies just because I thought they were great. And they stuck, so I didn’t have to learn those bits of the play, which is a blessing, because learning lines has now become the one curse of this job.”
FILE - Patrick Stewart, cast member in the Paramount+ television series "Star Trek: Picard" poses for a portrait during the Winter Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2023. (Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)(Willy Sanjuan | AP Photo/Willy Sanjuan)
Starship commander grew up without a toilet
Raised in Mirfield in Yorkshire, a working class corner of northern England, the future 24th century commander of a starship grew up without a bathroom in his house.
Stewart joined an amateur drama group at 12 and memorized Shakespeare for fun as a teen. He won a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, launching a career as a character actor.
He had been bald since he was 19 — alopecia runs in his family.
His father, a former regimental sergeant major in the British Army, was prone to outbursts of “repeated violence against my mother,” as Stewart wrote in a newspaper piece. “Violence is always a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.”
In his memoir, “Making It So,” Stewart wrote about how he and his older brother Trevor braced for the nights when their dad came home drunk and angry, and attacked their mother. “Sometimes it was with an open hand, other times a closed fist. Always he aimed for her head.”
The son would later become a patron for Refuge, an organization that provides shelter for domestic abuse victims.
Patrick Stewart arrives at the premiere of the third and final season of "Star Trek: Picard" on Feb. 9, 2023, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)(Richard Shotwell | AP Photo/Richard Shotwell)
Loving Shakespeare proved fruitful as Capt. Picard
“The stage would prove to be a safe space, a refuge from real life in which I could inhabit another person, living in another place and time,” he would write.
Stewart was accepted into the Royal Shakespeare Company and stayed for 14 years, playing everything from Mark Antony to Henry IV to Shylock to Oberon. “People who were not in the company would say to me, ‘Give it a break. Why don’t you go somewhere else?’ And I would say, ‘To do what?‘” he told the AP. “Telly?”
Stewart eventually left to look for more varied work, including the 1981 film “Excalibur.” He had just done a production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in 1987 when an interesting offer came along. “I found myself in Hollywood shooting a syndicated science fiction series, which I was assured would fail.”
It didn’t, of course. Thanks to Stewart’s rich baritone and noble bearing, the “Star Trek” franchise ran for seven years, 178 episodes and produced four feature films. He was known for his slogan “Make it so.”
His adoration for Shakespeare would serve him well when he began to play Jean-Luc Picard, a 24th century starship commander.
“There is a formality to the way they speak and comport themselves that remind me of numerous Shakespearean situations I’d been in onstage. I should play Jean Luc, I realized, as if he were a character in ‘Henry IV,’ which is about brave men,” Stewart wrote in his memoir.
Despite the Borg and Klingons, Stewart still managed to make room for blank verse. He established the Paramount Shakespeare Company, a workshop on Saturday and Sunday mornings for any actor interested. (Stewart revisited Picard in the TV series “Star Trek: Picard.”)
Stewart died just a few days after Walter Koenig, another “Star Trek” icon, who played Ensign Pavel Chekov on the original NBC TV show from 1966 to 1969.
The show gave him higher visibility, which led to more work, including roles in the films “Conspiracy Theory,” “L.A. Story” and on Broadway, where he starred in “The Tempest,” “The Caretaker” and David Mamet’s “A Life in the Theater.” He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in June 2010. Stewart was also an ambassador for the International Rescue Committee.
A brave and commanding persona. But sexy?
In July 1992, he and supermodel Cindy Crawford were on the cover of TV Guide’s “Top Turn-Ons,” based on a readers’ poll. In his memoir, Stewart wrote: “Absurd.”
Stewart was first introduced as the character Xavier in the original X-Men trilogy, appearing in three films from 2000 to 2006. He later returned in four more movies before Professor X’s death in 2017’s “Logan.” He reappeared in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” in 2022 and is reprising the role in the upcoming “Avengers: Doomsday.”
He also showed off his comedic chops aboard Seth MacFarlane’s Starz show “Blunt Talk” for two series and voiced Poop in “The Emoji Movie.” He made appearances on “Robot Chicken,” “Futurama” and “The Simpsons” (in one episode, Homer loses his hair, and Stewart tells him it’s great to be bald.)
Later in life, he proved internet-savvy and found new fans with his humor, posing in a bath in a lobster suit and triggering memes when he posted a photo of him picking apples. When he was mistakenly outed as gay by a British newspaper, he said it was a nice change. “At least I didn’t wake up to the internet telling me I was dead again,” he tweeted.
He married Brooklyn songwriter and singer Sunny Ozell in 2013, with the actor’s “X-Men” co-star McKellen officiating. Stewart later tweeted a photo of the newlyweds in a ball pit.
He also is survived by two children, a daughter, Sophia, and a son, Daniel.
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Unconfirmed rumors of a mass military walkout spark severe internal strain amid escalating tensions over proposed strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure.
While official confirmation is still pending, the rumor of service members refusing duty highlights a profound internal strain within the American defense apparatus. This development occurs against a backdrop of intensifying rhetoric, largely fueled by statements from Donald Trump regarding the potential targeting of civilian infrastructure in Iran.
These targets—including power facilities and bridges—represent a significant escalation that has alarmed both legal scholars and humanitarian organizations worldwide.
The political fallout in Washington has been immediate Legal experts are sounding the alarm, asserting that large-scale attacks on systems essential for civilian life may violate international law and established wartime conventions. Strategically, the proposed actions are viewed as high-risk; history suggests that destroying a nation’s infrastructure rarely yields the intended military results.
