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The man who set himself on fire outside Trump's hush money trial in New York has reportedly died from his injuries. Max Azzarello, a 37-year-old from St. Augustine, Florida, reportedly died Friday night hours after the display, said to be 'an 'extreme act of protest...[against] a totalitarian con, and our own government' on the conspiracy theorist's own Substack. The reported revelation was offered to The New York Post late Monday, hours after he doused himself in accelerant outside the courthouse before going up in flames. Left in critical condition, Azzarello has since succumbed to those wounds, sources told the paper,...

Aaron Bushnell claimed he had secret knowledge of US troops fighting in Hamas tunnels under Gaza — just hours before setting himself on fire in an “extreme act of protest” against Israel, a close pal told The Post on Tuesday. The 25-year-old airman — who served in the Air Force’s 70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing, but also interacted with radical anarchist groups online — ranted that he had “top-secret clearance’’ for military intelligence data in the call to his friend Saturday night, he said.

A member of the US Air Force was in critical condition after reportedly setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, Sunday afternoon. A video live streamed on Twitch appeared to show the Air Force member in uniform standing in front of the embassy gate and identifying himself as a member of the US Air Force, the New York Times and Washington Post said, citing officials who confirmed the footage matched the man in question. “I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the...

40-year-old Michigan man who was known for his vigilante work that exposed child predators was shot to death on Friday night in Detroit. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) says that Robert Lee of Pontiac was at Universal Coney Island that night confronting a person he believed was a pedophile at a restaurant, WJBK reports. Lee often used social media to pose as underage girls in an effort to expose and catch pedophiles, according to the Detroit News. He went by the name “Boopac Shakur” on Facebook and has more than 11,000 followers on the platform. The man Lee accused...

A shocking video of tourists sprinting towards a bear at Yellowstone National Park has gone viral and prompted backlash on social media. The clip shows a mother black bear and her two cubs sniffing around in the grass, alongside a road full of queuing cars. Suddenly, a group of tourists jump out of their vehicles, point, and then begin to sprint towards the bears. There are four men running, one of whom appears to be carrying a toddler in his arms, while a woman comes into shot approaching the animals with a camera. Thankfully, the mama bear and her cubs...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.-- Emma Shafer, 24, was found stabbed to death last Tuesday. The suspect is her ex-boyfriend, Gabriel P. Calixto, 25. Shafer is an intern for US Senator Tammy Duckworth and part of multiple left-wing activist groups. She is on the “Racial Equity Task Force” for Resistor Sisterhood. She is also described as a “community organizer” for the left-wing “racial equality” group Faith Coalition for the Common Good. Calixto is an illegal alien who has allegedly been in the USA since he was five. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to kidnapping another ex-girlfriend and was sentenced to six years. However,...

A TikTok boat jumping challenge that sees people jump from the rear of the vessels while moving at high speed has been blamed for four deaths in Alabama. The challenge, which has been popularized on TikTok, involves individuals engaging in dangerous water activities. Those participating in the challenge launch themselves from the rear of a boat and into the wake behind it, as the boat continues to move. Now, officials in Alabama have said the new fad has claimed the lives of four people, after they broke their necks instantly. Officials said in the last six months, they had to...

A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, has been killed in Mexico — where his bullet-riddled body was found in his SUV after his fiancée reported him missing on his trip to conduct field research about plants. Gabriel Trujillo, 31, a botanist and fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology, was shot seven times June 19 in the northwest state of Sonora and his body was discovered three days later, his family said.

The woman, surnamed Sun, fell during a flying-trapeze performance in the city of Suzhou in central Anhui province. Footage shared online shows the gymnast falling on to a hard stage after a routine went wrong with her acrobatic partner, who is also her husband. She was taken to hospital where efforts by doctors to save her life failed. The popular news website The Paper reported that she leaves behind two children. Officials say an investigation is under way into the incident. According to The Paper, Ms Sun and her husband, surnamed Zhang, had worked together for many years and had...

COLUMBUS, Ohio. (WSYX) - A family from Columbus, Ohio is dealing with a horrific tragedy. Their 13-year-old son, Jacob, died after he overdosed on an over-the-counter medicine. The family says their son was trying to copy a TikTok challenge. “I am going to do everything I can to try to make sure another child doesn’t go through it,” Jacob’s grandmother, Dianna Stevens, said.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Authorities say a 73-year-old BASE jumper who died after leaping from an Idaho bridge had set his parachute on fire as part of a stunt. A graphic video of the fatal jump, posted to YouTube on Monday, shows someone engulfed in flames and falling from the Perrine Bridge into the Snake River, 500 feet below. James E. Hickey had apparently planned to ditch the flaming parachute and deploy a second chute in the May 7 stunt.

A Florida man named Patrick Vandermeyden-Miller was recently dubbed “dumb criminal of the week” by the local Sheriff. Vandermeyden-Miller was arrested outside of a Palm Coast Target for allegedly stealing an electric scooter. According to reports Flagler County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a man that walked past the check out lines of a Target store with an electric scooter and never paid for it. When the deputies responded Vandermeyden-Miller was not hard to find…he was assembling the scooter right outside the front door.

A man has killed himself following a six-week-long conversation with artificial intelligence about the so-called climate crisis. He apparently committed suicide in his effort to try to save the planet. The report comes from Off the Press, where the case of the Belgian man was detailed. His widow, who wanted to remain anonymous, said her husband "became extremely eco-anxious when he found refuge in Eliza, an AI chatbot on an app called Chai." Thomas Rianlan, in an interview with Vice, explained, "It wouldn’t be accurate to blame EleutherAI’s model for this tragic story, as all the optimisation towards being more...

OAKLAND, Calif. - A Vacaville man was killed while allegedly stealing a catalytic converter in Oakland, according to police and media reports. The coroner on Wednesday identified the man as 35-year-old Eric Chabot. Oakland police said that on March 10 about 3 a.m., he was found underneath a car "committing a crime at the time of their death" in the 400 block of Lagunitas Avenue near Lake Merritt. The East Bay Times reported he was trying to steal a catalytic converter from a parked Prius nearby. Authorities told the news organization that it seems like the carjack Chabot was using...

A West Covina man died after he fell from a rocky bluff and into the Pacific Ocean in Oregon on Saturday... Authorities say Henry Minh Hoang, 25, was hiking past a safety fence near “the punch bowl” at Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area when he slipped. He landed about 20 feet from the ocean’s edge but was pulled in by waves while apparently knocked unconscious...

Anndel Taylor, 22, was killed while waiting out the massive snow storm Taylor sent a final video to her family members from inside the car Across Erie County, New York, 35 people have been killed during the storm Three were found in cars despite an ongoing ban on personal road travel New York Governor Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency *************************************************** A 22-year-old woman has tragically frozen to death after spending 18 hours in her car while trying to wait out a historic snowstorm currently devastating Buffalo. Anndel Taylor died over the weekend after her vehicle was stranded...

Polk County Sheriff’s deputies shot an arsonist his his manhood. “We’ve changed the looks of his groin forever — if you know what I mean,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a press conference. Luke Neely is facing a number of charges after he threw molotov cocktails at a house and then led police on a high speed chase. The chase ended near Dinosaur World when police opened fire. Neely was found with a loaded AR-15 and a fully loaded handgun. He’s been charged with 3 counts of attempted first-degree murder, arson, 7 counts of firebombing and one count...

Wallace Lee of Weymouth, England, bought a home endoscope kit and discovered the cause of his partial hearing loss was an earbud part that had been stuck in his ear for five years. Photo by snsforyou/Pixabay.com Nov. 14 (UPI) -- A British man who feared he was going deaf used a home endoscope kit and discovered a piece of an earbud had been stuck in his ear for about five years. Wallace Lee of Weymouth, Dorset, said he had been experiencing hearing loss for the past few years, and ended up buying a home endoscope kit to see if he...

A 25-year-old man was killed when he got knocked off the top of a tractor-trailer barreling down a Texas freeway. Houston police said the man, who was not identified, either jumped or climbed on top of the 18-wheeler, started dancing, and was possibly recording himself. As the truck went underneath a bridge, the man was knocked off and landed on the roadway below. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The driver told investigators that he had no idea there was somebody dancing on top of his truck. Authorities said the driver was released after it...

On Oct. 12, Melike Gün Kanavuzlar was on the fourth floor of a building in Ortaca, a city in southwestern Turkey about 115 miles from the scenic resort town of Bodrum, when she tried to recover the device. She lost her footing and plummeted four stories to the pavement below, Cumhiryet reported. The local newspaper said the young girl had been taking a selfie before she slipped.