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Zeldin—the Republican standing against the state’s Democratic governor, Kathy Hochul, in November—was delivering a speech in the upstate town of Fairport on Thursday evening when a man allegedly tried to stab him. Zeldin was unharmed, police said in a statement. “A male from the crowd climbed up on the stage and approached Zeldin. The male had a weapon in his hand, swung it towards Zeldin’s neck, and told him, ‘You’re done,’” said Monroe County Sheriff’s Office....

The announcement marked a first forRHOBH, with Beauvais set to become the first black woman to receive the notable diamond and tagline on the franchise. In general, very few black women have appeared on the show aside from Kyle Richards’ gal pal Faye Resnick, who has only been featured in a friend capacity on earlier seasons of RHOBH. Beauvais, a 58-year-old Haitian American, said she was thrilled to represent black culture on RHOBH, the cast of which has been predominately filled with white women since its 2010 debut....

Maddison is a technically gifted player with an eye for goal. He has an incredible passing range and can score from anywhere on the pitch, his goals against Middlesbrough and Ipswich Town highlighted this. Maddison’s dribbling is also second-to-none in this division. The 21-year-old has earned comparisons to Dele Alli due to his age and his goalscoring. Others compare him to Adam Lallana due to his fantastic dribbling skills, but he also has the goalscoring aspect to his game that Lallana doesn’t have....

Siebel Newsom sent Weinstein an email looking for advice on how to handle “bad press” amidst news that her then-boyfriend Newsom, who was mayor of San Francisco at the time, had an affair with his campaign manager’s wife. The email she sent was two years after Weinstein allegedly raped and sexually assaulted her. A judge ruled on Monday that the defense will be able to use the email as evidence....

The Polish fighter has struggled in the UFC, but managed to end a five-fight losing streak after beating Felice Herrig three months ago. Juárez is relatively new to the UFC, only competing three times in the organization. The Argentina-born MMA fighter lost to Lupita Godinez on her UFC debut late last year. Godinez submitted Juárez in the very first round. Juárez was also finished in the first five minutes against Vanessa Demopoulos....

Kathy Zhu, 20, is a University of Michigan student who earlier this week was named as an Indiana and Michigan 2019 national finalist in her bid to make it to the Miss and Teen World America Preliminary and Finals, which will be held in Las Vegas in October. But after organizers became aware of Zhu’s controversial social media posts, they removed her from the competition and asked her to stop posting anything relating to the contest, news....

Sowers is an offensive assistant under coach Kyle Shanahan. And while the 33-year-old has gotten more attention as the subject of a national Microsoft Surface commercial airing during the current NFL playoffs, she has helped San Francisco’s offense become one of the most dynamic and hardest to defend. Here are some other facts you should know about one of the trailblazing faces of the NFL’s female coaching movement. ‘I WAS JUST KICKING THE FOOTBALL’Carli Lloyd’s path to NFL is visible to women who played college football...

Born on August 24, 1945, in New Jersey, Marsha P. Johnson graduated high school in 1963 and then moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. She legally changed her name to Marsha P. Johnson, with the P. allegedly standing for “Pay It No Mind”—her response to those who questioned her gender. Johnson, her friend Sylvia Rivera and others resisted arrest when the police raided the Stonewall Inn gay bar on June 28, 1969....

Season 1 of the show is a faceoff between the best chefs in the industry and a set of challenger chefs who are geared to take away the crown by beating them in a series of culinary challenges. Both sides will compete against each other under challenging circumstances. The five Iron Chefs on the show are Curtis Stone, Dominique Crenn, Gabriela Cámara, Marcus Samuelsson, and Ming Tsai. The official synopsis of the show reads:...

With Zach Wilson recovering from a knee injury, the Jets turned to quarterback Mike White in Week 8 for the start, helping lead Gang Green to a stunning, shocking, spooky 34-31 win over the red-hot Bengals. What White did was, actually, historic: Throwing for over 400 yards and three touchdowns, White became the first NFL passer to do that in his debut in league history. But long before the Jets backup was throwing bombs short and underneath routes that resulted in aberrational and unsustainable passing production, he was taking snaps on the New York practice squad, which, for him, might as well have been a taxi squad....

We have already seen some exhilarating action in the VIVO IPL 2016 so far and it is only going to get better as the tournament progresses. All teams have played 3-4 matches except Royal Challengers Bangalore, who have played just 2 games, and this is an ideal stage to figure out where each team stands in terms of being contenders for the title. Let’s take a closer look at the performance of the 8 franchises participating in the 2016 edition of the IPL:...

All of this could have become mere soap opera with a dash of sulfuric acid in the soap. But 29-year-old Frank Pugliese brings a mordant power to his portrayal of these postmodern Dead End Kids. In a scene that’s both scary and funny, Charlie zips up his baby in a bowling bag for an evening at the local saloon (“Bring a baby and get free drinks”). The young cast sizzles with energy, deployed by Frederick Zollo in a hightension off-Broadway production....

Press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday that the pipes were never included in the kits, which are part of a $30 million grant program to support community-based overdose prevention programs and other harm reduction services. “It was inaccurate reporting, and we wanted to put out information to make that clear,” she said. The White House’s clarification comes after a conservative backlash against the program following a Washington Free Beacon article....

Jeremy Renner is reprising his role as Clint Barton but he’ll be joined in the new series by Oscar-nominated actors Hailee Steinfeld and Vera Farmiga. Hawkeye will be the fifth original Marvel series airing exclusively on Disney+ after Wandavision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki and the current animated series What If…?. The recent Hawkeye trailer confirms the appearance of some characters while others have already been confirmed. Let’s take a look at who we can expect to see in the upcoming series....

The rapper, real name Rakim Mayers, was arrested while on tour in Stockholm for “gross assault” after a street brawl between his entourage and two men on June 30, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But according to the rapper’s Instagram account, the victim is seen with another man following and repeatedly harassing him. The rapper said that a fight broke out after the men swung at his security first....

The ABC reality show features contestants who have appeared on various seasons of dating shows The Bachelor and The Bachelorette returning to the franchise to try and find love once again. Past contestants like Michael Allio and Danielle Maltby have already been seen getting to know each other in the show’s tropical paradise location and one of the latest additions is Bordyukov, who fans may recognize from Rachel Lindsay’s season of The Bachelorette in 2017....

Darya Dugina, the 29-year-old daughter of Alexander Dugin, was in a Toyota Land Cruiser Prado when it exploded near the village of Velyki Vyazomy on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday, Russian state media reported. The Investigative Committee branch for the Moscow region said the blast was caused by a bomb planted in the SUV. The explosion happened as Dugina was returning from a cultural festival she had attended with her father, according to some Russian media reports....

Colonel Alexei Sharov, who commanded the 810th Guards Separate Order of Zhukov Brigade in the Russian Marines, was reported killed in the southern city of Mariupol, where tens of thousands of people remain trapped amid a siege. The death was revealed in a Telegram post by Odessa military administration spokesman Sergey Bratchuk and reported by Ukrainian news outlets including state news agency Ukrinform. “The commander of the Russian Marine Brigade was destroyed by our military,” said Bratchuk, according to a translation, “and so it will be with anyone…who is trying to kill our children....

The director told Time that the documentary allowed him to “really look at systemic problems.” He added in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, “Once we scratched the surface… it was clear the story went far beyond the death penalty trial of Isauro Aguirre. A large number of systemic issues played into what happened to Gabriel: social workers were charged criminally, third party contractors played a role, and a lot was revealed when the whistleblower came forward to paint a much bigger picture of what had happened....