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A “General Hospital” actor was identified Sunday as a man shot and killed during an attempted catalytic converter theft in downtown Los Angles. Johnny Wactor, 37, was shot Saturday, his mother, Scarlett, told TMZ Sunday. He appeared as Brando Corbin in 164 episodes of the long-running soap opera between 2020 and 2022, KTLA reported. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker best known for “Super Size Me,” has died. He was 53. He died Thursday night from complications of cancer, the Post can confirm. “It was a sad day, as we said goodbye to my brother Morgan,” his brother Craig Spurlock to the outlet. “Morgan gave so much through his art, ideas and generosity. Today the world has lost a true creative genius and a special man. I am so proud to have worked together with him.” Born in 1970 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Spurlock graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1993. He...

DUBAI, May 20 (Reuters) - Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other senior figures in the Islamic Republic's 45-year history. While government loyalists packed into mosques and squares to pray for Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, both killed in a helicopter crash, most shops remained open and the authorities made little effort to interrupt ordinary life. A year after Raisi's hardline government cracked down violently to end the biggest anti-establishment demonstrations since the 1979 revolution,...

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed after a helicopter carrying him and other officials crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran on Sunday. Raisi, 63, was confirmed dead by Iranian media today along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati and Tabriz's Friday prayer Imam Mohammad Ali Alehashem. Two pilots and three other Iranian officials and security guards also perished in the crash. Grainy drone footage from Iranian and Turkish news agencies showed how the helicopter had smashed apart on landing, and an Iranian official said the search teams who located the wreckage...

Alice Stewart, a Republican political advisor and CNN political pundit, passed away at the age of 58. Authorities discovered Stewart’s body outside in Bellevue, northern Virginia, early on Saturday morning, according to a CNN story. Law enforcement believes there was a medical emergency and that there is no evidence of foul play. In a statement, Mark Thompson, the CEO of CNN, praised Stewart for both her career and “political savvy” as well as “her unwavering kindness.” “Alice was a very dear friend and colleague to all of us at CNN,” said Thompson in an email to staff on Saturday. :A...

Former Giants offensive lineman Korey Cunningham has died. He was just 28 years old. Cunningham spent two seasons with the Giants, from 2021-22, and appeared in 13 games with the team. He was found dead at his home in Clifton, N.J. on Thursday, according to local outlet RLS Media. Law enforcement told the outlet that his death was self-inflicted. The Giants released a statement on X Friday morning.

O.J. Simpson — who became one of the most infamous figures in the US during his murder trial in the ’90s — has died after a cancer battle. The former NFL star died Wednesday in Las Vegas, his family confirmed. He was 76.

Louis Gossett Jr., who was the first Black man to win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for the 1982 romantic drama An Officer and a Gentleman, has died. He was 87. The actor died Thursday night (March 28) in Santa Monica, CA, his nephew confirmed to the Associated Press. No official cause of death has been announced, though it was previously revealed that he was diagnosed with the early stages of prostate cancer in 2010.

Last week, two New York University students died just days apart from each other. Police officials told the New York Post, that Jacqueline Beauzile, 19, was pronounced dead by EMS after she was found unresponsive at Lipton Hall on Thursday. The body of Doreah Salti, 18, was discovered around 7:30 PM outside the Barney building on Stuyvesant Street. She was later pronounced dead at the Bellevue Hospital with trauma on her body that indicated that she had either jumped or fallen from the building. With many speculating that Salti's death was a suicide, her family said they believed her death...

British law should be amended to allow for dead people to have their genders officially changed following their deaths, a Member of Parliament for the left-wing Labour Party has argued. In a written question posed to Parliament last month, Warrington North MP Charlotte Nichols suggested that the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) of 2004 should be updated to “allow transgender people who are deceased to be legally remembered by the gender they lived by”. The push follows a petition last year signed by nearly 14,000 people asking for a similar change to the law following the killing of Brianna Ghey, a...

A Kentucky groundhog died on Groundhog Day — just days after predicting an early spring. Major, a nearly 10-year-old rodent meteorologist living at the Second Chances Wildlife Center, peacefully succumbed overnight to heart issues brought on by his age, the center’s staff said. “He was full of amazing energy up until the end. He will forever be in our hearts. It’s a sad day for us at the Center, especially for those who have been with us his whole life,” the refuge announced on Facebook. “We know you are sad too. Hugs to all of our friends. Know that he...

A journalist who took aim at Russian officials and promised to release details of “gigantic corruption” was found dead near a roadside over the weekend, but the circumstances of his death remain shrouded in mystery. “It will be almost impossible to determine whether foul play was involved Rybin’s death or whether he died of heart disease as some Russian media outlets claim,” Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and the author of “Putin’s Playbook,” told Fox News Digital. Alexander Rybin, 39, was found near a highway some 130 miles outside the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, where he had spent...

Gadi Haggai, 73, was murdered by the terrorists who are still thought to be holding his 70-year-old wife, Judi Weinstein, according to the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum representing the families.

Washington DC police claim there have been no signs of foul play involved in the death of a 41-year-old man who was dumped from a car and into an alley. Shocking footage shows Alan Chen being dragged out of his own white Porsche in a Northwest DC alleyway and being left there dead on November 29. The Met Police Department told DailyMail.com that the case is a death investigation and they are waiting for autopsy reports. Officials believe Chen's death could be of natural causes and that there were no immediate signs of foul play. Video shows the unidentified suspect...

A jeweller in Italy has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for shooting dead two crooks who robbed his store and tied up his daughter, prompting a fierce debate on the limits of self-defence. Mario Roggero shot at three thieves in Grinzane Cavour on April 28, 2021 after they entered his store, bound his daughter's hands behind her back, threatened to kill his wife and helped themselves to expensive jewellery and watches. Fearing for his life, Roggero was seen on CCTV chasing them out of the shop and shooting at least five times. Andrea Spinelli and Giuseppe Mazzarino died...

“The data is legit; that's why they are arresting Barry. He's a hero for exposing the truth.”.. Statistician and whistleblower, Barry Young, also known as “Winston Smith,” 56, has been arrested by New Zealand authorities for exposing a damning database on COVID-19 vaccine deaths. However, the official charge was “dishonestly accessing vaccination data.” ... In a long-format interview with Liz Gunn, founder of the New Zealand Loyal Party, on November 30th, Mr. Young presented connections between specific COVID-19 vaccine batches and mortality rates. The data he shared was alarming: ... Batch ID 1: Total Vaccinated 711, Death Count 152, 21.38%...

Yesterday I happened to catch a short segment of Megyn Kelly's podcast, the guests were Teryn Gregson, the director and producer of a new movie called SHOT DEAD, the other guest was a father who had lost his teenage son due to the vaccine. If you are like me and won't let go of the idea Covid and the Vaccines were one of the biggest crimes ever committed against mankind, then you might be interested in spending an hour watching this movie. My emotions while watching the movie ranged from real sorrow for the victims to anger that this criminal...

A single mom of two in the Chicago suburbs was killed Saturday at a Chase Bank ATM. Police on Saturday afternoon in Worth, Illinois, responded to a Chase Bank branch and located a woman who had been fatally shot, according to FOX 32. Two suspects who are linked to multiple armed robberies around the Chicago area were taken into custody by police. Family members of the woman identified the victim as Jonnie Angel Kleins, who was a single mother to a 15-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl. She was also her mother's caretaker. "She worked tirelessly to provide for her...

Support between Gov. Andy Beshear (D) and state Attorney General Daniel Cameron (R) in the Kentucky gubernatorial race is tied, according to a poll released Friday. An Emerson College Polling survey found Beshear and Cameron tied at 47 percent, with 4 percent of respondents saying they were undecided and 2 percent saying someone else. The poll noted that the match-up shifts to Cameron receiving 49 percent and Beshear receiving 48 percent when undecided voters are asked whom they’re leaning toward.

Matthew Perry, a comic actor known for playing the sarcastic, boyishly charming and tightly wound Chandler Bing in the long-running sitcom “Friends,” was found dead Oct. 28 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 54. Perry was discovered by a witness unresponsive in his hot tub at about 4 p.m. Saturday, Capt. Kelly Muniz of the Los Angeles police said in a statement Sunday. The Los Angeles City Fire Department responded and pronounced Perry dead on the scene, she said, adding that detectives from the LAPD’s robbery-homicide division investigated and found “no obvious signs of trauma.” The official cause...