Round 2 of NYC’s Nor’easter Hits After Tree Falls on Two Young Kids and Leaves Surreal Scenes

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The nor’easter took the Big Apple by storm — again.

A 1-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl were among four people hurt by a falling tree in Brooklyn, it surfaced Sunday — as round two of the region’s deadly weekend storm battered the city.

The wet-and-wild storm sent hapless ocean fish swimming through driveways and hungry seagulls diving for dinner in city streets — while prompting a waterlogged NYPD cop to deem it the worst flooding in his Queens neighborhood since 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.

“I mean, there’s horseshoe crabs all the way here up to Broad Channel Drive,” said rubber-boot-wearing off-duty Officer Matt Langdon, 48, standing in the water pooled outside his Beach 84th Street house.

“I moved here to Far Rockaway when I was 10, and this is the worst it’s been since Sandy.”

“Our crawl space is flooded up to the joists,” the cop told The Post on Sunday. “At its highest, it was coming up to my thigh, it was 2-and-a-half-feet deep at my house. My kids are stuck in the house.” (Read more from “Round 2 of NYC’s Nor’easter Hits After Tree Falls on Two Young Kids and Leaves Surreal Scenes” HERE)

Finland and Sweden Scramble Fighter Jets Together Against Russia in Historic First

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Finnish and Swedish fighter jets scrambled for the first time on Sept. 24 to intercept supersonic Russian military aircraft flying over the Gulf of Finland, marking a major milestone in Nordic defense cooperation amid heightened tensions with Moscow.

The mission also came one day before Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed European warnings about the threat from Moscow in the region and mocked Estonia’s new defense minister over the Baltic state’s preparations for a potential Russian attack.

Finnish F/A-18 Hornets and Swedish JAS 39 Gripens were scrambled after Russian aircraft were detected in the international airspace, according to the Swedish Armed Forces.

The Russian formation included a Tu-134 transport plane, a high-altitude, supersonic MiG-31 interceptor designed to detect and engage long-range threats; and Su-30 multirole fighter jets which are designed for air-to-air and air-to-ground combat.

“This is what close cooperation looks like in practice,” Maj. Gen. Jonas Wikman, commander of the Swedish Air Force, said in a statement following the joint operation. (Read more from “Finland and Sweden Scramble Fighter Jets Together Against Russia in Historic First” HERE)

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Pope Leo Takes On Assisted Death, Secularism, Education In Blunt Message To French Establishment

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Pope Leo XIV has used his apostolic visit to France, running from September 25-28, 2026 to discuss abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy and the place of Catholic schools in a once staunchly Catholic, but not officially secular country.

The pope’s trip is unfolding amid French President Emmanuel Macron’s progressive government which enshrined abortion in the Constitution in 2024 and recently passed legislation legalizing assisted death. Pope Leo addressed some of the underlying questions on these issues while invoking Catholic teaching.

While at the Elysee Palace in Paris Friday, the American pope, whose grandmother was French, delivered his speech in the country’s native tongue. He remarked that modern society often expects science to eliminate or alleviate every form of suffering, a hope that “often brings the risk of self-delusion.”

When science and technology lack deeper wisdom, he said, they can offer “immediate solutions that apparently address people’s wishes and their pain” yet fail to serve the greater good. He then voiced specific concern about trends that turn scientific advances into profit-driven enterprises, citing genetic manipulation, surrogacy, the trade in human organs and “the possibility of arranging one’s own death.”

The Pope noted that mutual respect and the protection of every human life remain duties binding on all. Later, at UNESCO headquarters, he reinforced the point by stating that “the human person is someone who is conceived and born.” (Read more from “Pope Leo Takes On Assisted Death, Secularism, Education In Blunt Message To French Establishment” HERE)

Mojtaba Khamenei had to be ‘Pulled from the Rubble’ of Hospital after US Strikes Nearly Killed Him a Second Time: Report

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. . .Mojtaba Khamenei was rushed to a Tehran hospital after the February strikes targeting his father nearly killed him, only to be “pulled from the rubble” again after the United States and Israel bombed the medical center, an Iranian cleric revealed in an interview with Qatari television this week.

After obliterating Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Tehran compound — which killed the 86-year-old supreme leader and dozens of his top leaders — the allies also reportedly bombed three different hospitals in Tehran on Feb. 28 to launch the war.

The younger Khamenei, 56, was pulled from underneath the rubble of one of the hospitals, before going vanishing to an unknown location — and has not been seen in public or his voice heard since.

“Even after he had been wounded and taken to the hospital, three hospitals in Tehran were bombed,” Mohsen Heydari, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, told Qatari television network Al Araby Thursday.

“Mojtaba Khamenei was in the third hospital and was pulled from the rubble.” (Read more from “Mojtaba Khamenei had to be ‘Pulled from the Rubble’ of Hospital after US Strikes Nearly Killed Him a Second Time: Report” HERE)

A Google Employee Said He Quit Because He’s Worried about Superintelligent AI

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A Google employee said he resigned from the company, citing the pursuit of powerful artificial intelligence as “inherently irresponsible.”

Robert O’Callahan, who worked at Google DeepMind, wrote in an X post that his team was developing chips to make AI faster and cheaper and that he believed AI was already “progressing too fast.”

He shared a resignation letter on his personal blog that he said he sent to colleagues on Friday, in which he wrote that he couldn’t “turn a blind eye” to the impact of his work because it “would not be a Jesus-following thing to do.” He describes himself as a Christian in his blog’s bio.

“This has not been an easy decision. I love my colleagues and my work environment, and being paid handsomely to solve fun puzzles has been amazing,” he wrote. “But my team’s goal is ultimately to make AI much cheaper and lower-latency, and I don’t think that’s good for people right now: I firmly believe AI progress is currently far too rapid (and I have doubts about the destination too).”

Business Insider could not establish how long O’Callahan, who says he is based in New Zealand, worked for Google. Approached for comment, O’Callahan referred Business Insider to the blog post. Google declined to comment.

O’Callahan joins a string of employees from AI companies who have either quit over safety concerns or sounded the alarm from within. (Read more from “A Google Employee Said He Quit Because He’s Worried about Superintelligent AI” HERE)

The Surprising Way Girls and Boys Behave Differently just Hours After Birth

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It’s an age-old question: How much of the differences between the way men and women behave are a result of nature, and how much is nurture?

A new study could shed more light on this. It shows different behavior between newborn boys and girls could appear just hours after birth.

Researchers from the University of Cambridge believe forces at work before birth — like sex hormone levels, might play a role, or even that the changes are a result of a slightly faster cognitive development in newborn girls.

They showed newborns — only about 33 hours old — two videos. One was a human face, the other, an animated Newton’s cradle (swinging metallic spheres).

Both sexes spent slightly longer looking at the face than at the Newton’s cradle. But researchers found that girls spent proportionally more of their looking time on the face than boys did. (Read more from “The Surprising Way Girls and Boys Behave Differently just Hours After Birth” HERE)

UN adds Over 60 Companies to Israel Blacklist

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The United Nations’ human rights office added 61 companies to a blacklist of businesses with activities in Judea and Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, in an annual report released on Friday.

The Database of Business Enterprises now holds details on 214 companies, based in 11 countries, including major operations like Motorola, along with travel apps such as Airbnb, Booking.com and Tripadvisor. Five entities were removed since last year’s publication.

The blacklist is issued by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

It was created in 2020 under a UN Human Rights Council resolution mandate during the tenure of Michelle Bachelet, who dropped out of the race for UN secretary-general on Sept. 19, 2026, after the former Chilean president received the support of only one of the 15 UN Security Council members.

“This is a distorted mechanism—created by a deeply flawed body with an automatic majority against Israel. It was established solely to persecute the Jewish state, with no equivalent anywhere else in the world,” the Israeli mission to the UN in Geneva said in a statement. (Read more from “UN adds Over 60 Companies to Israel Blacklist” HERE)

Trump And Xi Found One Thing In Common On AI

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President Donald Trump’s biggest takeaway on artificial intelligence from his meeting with Chinese leadership was a new name for the technology.

Chinese President Xi Jinping “seemed to like” renaming artificial intelligence to “Super Intelligence” during the leaders’ Thursday summit at the White House, where they discussed the technology, the president said in a Friday Truth Social post. State Department staff were instructed to use the new term after Trump announced the change on Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly, the Hill reported.

“Very productive meeting with President Xi for both the U.S.A. and China. Tremendous things will be happening,” the president said in a Friday morning Truth Social post. “Like almost everyone else, he seemed to like calling the poorly and inaccurately named Artificial Intelligence to a far more accurate and important name, SUPER INTELLIGENCE. That would be ‘SUPER!’ Everyone last night agreed, also.”

However, Xi did not use the term “Super Intelligence” when he spoke about the technology on Thursday.“We have both the capability and responsibility to develop and manage AI for good, and ensure that the development of AI is always under human control and serves the well-being of the people,” Xi said, according to the Hill. (Read more from “Trump And Xi Found One Thing In Common On AI” HERE)

Could The Trump Admin’s New Grant Program Disrupt Higher Education?

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A federal grant program tailored towards the trades being adopted across the United States may help reshape higher education as millions of Americans go back to school.

North Carolina became the fifth state to be approved by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) for Workforce Pell (WFP) grants Friday, paving the way for more Americans to receive federal funds for pursuing career and technical education (CTE), according to a press release.

WFP’s implementation, which began July 1, 2026, under the Working Families Tax Cuts Act signed July 4, 2026, by President Donald Trump, comes after around 60% of American adults aged between 18-28 surveyed by ResumeTemplates.com in October 2025 reported they have considered pivoting towards the trades as opposed to traditional higher education.

“Workforce Pell is finally a reality after decades of debate—opening new doors for students across the nation,” ED spokesperson Ellen Keast told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This landmark student aid program is designed to move beyond the outdated college‑for‑all model and expand access to in-demand, workforce‑focused credentials that can be completed quickly and at lower cost.”

Some of the covered CTE programs could help individuals attain employment in as quickly as eight weeks, according to a May press release by ED. (Read more from “Could The Trump Admin’s New Grant Program Disrupt Higher Education?” HERE)

Classic American Town Hosts Soft Core Smut Drag And Burlesque Show With Kids Present

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A local community arts network in New York featured drag performers stripping down to thongs in front of infants and children at its annual festival, according to exclusive photos and videos obtained by the Daily Caller.

The Community Arts Network of Oneonta (CANO)’s annual City of the Hills Festival received sponsorship from the City of Oneonta and the New York State Council on the Arts, according to a City of the Hills Facebook post.

The hour-long public drag performance, which took place on Sept. 19, was promoted on the City of the Hills Festival’s Facebook page and held in Muller Plaza, a public area in downtown Oneonta.

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Videos and photos obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller show drag performers participating in the “Draglesque to Downtown” event, with toddlers and young children seated just feet from the performers.

Two videos feature a performer who identifies as Teejae Dee on Facebook stripping and performing in close proximity to children in the audience. (Read more from “Classic American Town Hosts Soft Core Smut Drag And Burlesque Show With Kids Present” HERE)