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Actor and singer Hayden Panettiere was found in cardiac arrest just before she was pronounced dead at the scene in a South Carolina apartment, local officials revealed on Monday. Officers and emergency personnel responded to a 911 call placed before 2 p.m. on Sunday involving the 36-year-old “Heroes” and “Nashville” star, who was found “unresponsive” inside the Greenville residence, according to a statement from the Greenville County Coroner’s Office. Read more: British Prime Minister Andy Burnham exchanged messages with an impostor posing as U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, according to reports published Monday. A spokesperson for Burnham declined to comment, saying it was policy not to discuss “national security matters.” Read more: The House Ethics Committee said Monday it’s investigating a sexual misconduct allegation against Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.). The committee said in a release it’s “reviewing allegations that Representative Jimmy Gomez may have engaged in sexual misconduct” in violation of House rules, including rules against “engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer.” Gomez is the latest in a string of House members accused of misconduct over the past year. The committee is currently looking at Reps. Max Miller (R-Ohio) and Cory Mills (R-Fla.). It previously announced sexual misconduct investigations into Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Tony Gonzales (R-Texas), both of whom resigned. In its press release about Gomez on Monday the committee noted “the mere fact that it is investigating these allegations, and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred.” President Donald Trump lashed out at a female reporter from CNN Monday after she attempted to ask about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and whether Trump canceled a joint U.S.-South Korea military exercise at his request. “Did [Kim Jong Un] ask you to scale back on those?” she asked. Instead of answering the question, Trump pointed a finger at her: “Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! Quiet!” “You’re very disrespectful in front of this young man,” Trump said, turning to a boy who was seated on the couch for an unrelated Oval Office meet-and-great. “Don’t you find her disrespectful?” he asked the boy, laughing to himself. Trump then asked what outlet she was with and fell back onto his old standby of yelling “fake news” after learning she’s with CNN. “I just want to follow up on the South Korea question,” she said. “FAKE NEWS,” he yelled back. “YOU’RE FAKE NEWS. You’re loud. You’re a loud boisterous person, you’re fake news.” Undeterred, she asked again: “I’m trying to find out if you have been talking to Kim Jong Un and if he asked you…” Trump again cut her off: “Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. You’re a fake reporter. And you report fake news.” A spokesperson for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firmly undercut the Trump administration’s long-running claim the two are engaged in backchannel talks. IRGC Spokesperson Brigadier General Hossein Mohebbi told the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim Monday that Trump’s claim is yet another of his “mental fantasies.” “There is no dialogue taking place between IRGC officials and the Americans,” he said, adding that Trump’s claims are “merely fantasies caused by the delusions and nightmares resulting from defeat and desperation in the war.” Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and peace envoy, has ended two days of meetings with Israel and Hamas leaders without any signs of a breakthrough on a Gaza ceasefire deal, Reuters reported. Kushner met for several hours on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a day after meeting with Hamas’ leader in Egypt over Trump’s proposed peace plan. Netanyahu reportedly called Trump’s plan “problematic” because of his country’s upcoming elections, CNN reported, citing an Israeli source familiar with Monday’s discussions. His party has been teetering in the polls. Both Netanyahu and Kushner agreed that Gaza’s reconstruction would not begin until Hamas was fully disarmed of everything including light weapons, Reuters reported, citing an Israeli official. A devastating heat wave this summer likely contributed to the deaths of 16,000 people across Europe, but that’s of no concern to Richard Tice, the deputy leader of the UK’s far-right Reform party, who thinks people should “enjoy” climate change instead of taking measures to stop it. “Climate change has always happened. It always will. Maybe the smarter thing to do is to adapt to it than think arrogantly that you can stop it,” Tice said at a press conference Monday. Tice, whose party relies on oil and gas contributions (£24 million) for more than two thirds of its income, added that he’s excited for the prospect of better English wine. “When it’s a bit warm, let’s enjoy it. And if it means that English wine and sparkling wine gets better and better, fantastic,” he said. “That means we can take on the French — fantastic.” According to The Guardian, the 2026 heat wave cost the UK around £4 billion in lost economic output. A fundraiser for the family of a former University of Cambridge sociologist found dead on Friday amid plagiarism claims and intense public scrutiny has raised more than £163,000, or $221,000. The GoFundMe page for Jason Arday’s family calls for “compassion, dignity and solidarity with a grieving family,” regardless of the allegations made against him, which the school has said remain under investigation. “Jason’s life was bigger than the controversy that surrounded his final weeks,” the page reads. Arday, who in 2023 became Cambridge’s youngest Black professor at the age of 37, resigned last week as a professor after weeks of mounting questions and criticism about his academic work. In a statement posted to the fundraising page on Sunday, his family thanked those who have reached out with “messages of love, condolences and acts of kindness.” “We are so proud of him and wish for his life to be remembered for the person he truly was and the positive difference he made in the world,” the family said. Prosecutors have finished presenting their case against Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman who is charged with killing her three children during what her defense maintains was postpartum psychosis. Clancy’s attorney will now call his witnesses to testify in her defense, after three weeks of testimony from the prosecution’s side, The Associated Press reported. Sen. Jon Ossoff’s (D-Ga.) observation over the weekend that President Donald Trump seems more preoccupied with building a ballroom and traveling with his young aide than actually being president seems to have struck a nerve. White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded to the claim Monday with nonsensical invective, calling him “Jon Jackoff” and a “cuck loser” and “a miserable person.” “Jon Jackoff has to be the biggest cuck loser in politics,” Cheung wrote on social media. “Instead of denigrating hard working people serving their country, Jon should look deep into his soul and ask himself why he’s a miserable person who hates this country. It’s because he’s a radical, extremist Dumocrat.” Adopting a single-payer universal health care system in the U.S. would cut annual health expenditures by $1 trillion, even while covering every American, including those uninsured or underinsured, a new study found. The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, was led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. It attributed the largest savings to reduced pharmaceutical prices, fraudulent billing, and emergency department visits and hospitalizations. “Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and for less,” senior author Alison Galvani said in a press release last week on the findings. The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump’s push to throw out a jury’s $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. The Republican president’s lawyers had asked the justices to reconsider their refusal to hear his appeal. The court denied Trump’s petition along with several others. Read more from The Associated Press: A 60-day deadline for ending the war between the U.S. and Iran expired Monday with no signs that an agreement is close to being reached. The Memorandum of Understanding, signed by Washington and Tehran back in June, agreed to a ceasefire and a 60-day deadline for ending the almost six-month-long war. As part of the pact, Iran also said it would not charge passing commercial vessels “for 60 days only.” There had been reports last week of both sides agreeing to extend the deadline, but those claims were swiftly denied by a senior Iranian source to Reuters. Hayden Panettiere’s former co-stars, friends, family and fans are remembering the “Nashville” and “Heroes” actor following her death at age 36. The cause of death has not been released. Panettiere’s father, Skip Panettiere, hailed her as “an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her – and to the millions who watched her onscreen” in a statement announcing her death on Sunday. Read more here: President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to bomb Oman if it undermines his efforts to end the war with Iran. Iran says it is working with Oman on a plan to control shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the channel vital to global trade that has been choked up since Trump began the war in February. Iran is to the north of the strait, and Oman is to the south. Asked about the “parallel talks” talking place between Iran and Oman, Trump reportedly told Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst that the U.S. would “bomb the shit out of” Oman if it “gets in the way.” Fox News did not provide audio of the interview, but a clip of Yingst reporting on his conversation with Trump was shared by the White House’s “rapid response” X account. Meanwhile, the 60-day negotiating period to find a peace deal between the U.S. and Iran expires Monday. Trump told Yingst the deadline on talks was irrelevant and said there was no timeline. .@POTUS on parallel talks between Iran and Oman on the Strait of Hormuz: "If Oman gets in the way, we'll bomb the shit out of them." pic.twitter.com/5dEXDOdAN4 President Donald Trump is set to meet with 16-year-old Ryder Williams, a lifeguard who pulled off an incredible rescue that was caught on video. Williams is scheduled to visit the White House on Monday. Read more about Williams and his rescue here: Opening statements will begin on Monday in the trial of a man accused of plotting the 1996 killing of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, a former street gang leader, is accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting of the 25-year-old rapper as payback for the beating of his nephew by Shakur and others days earlier. Davis is the first person to be indicted in the killing. He’s pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in the rapper’s death. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday said vandals are to blame for large swaths of dead grass on the National Mall near the World War II Memorial — in the same spot where Trump had a stage built and hosted crowds for his July 4 celebration. Trump made the accusation in a social media post without saying why he believes it’s the work of vandals instead of trampled turf from the Independence Day festivities. He posted a photo showing a once-grassy area by the World War II Memorial, now patchy and brown across much of the sprawling turf. Read more from the AP: For previous coverage from HuffPost, go here. By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. 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