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GOP Congressman From Wisconsin Tearfully Recounts Surviving Emergency Plane Landing in Lake

GOP Congressman From Wisconsin Tearfully Recounts Surviving Emergency Plane Landing in Lake

Published by Sam Flores

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, a candidate for Wisconsin governor, wiped away tears and laughed while sharing how thankful he was Sunday to survive a harrowing late-night emergency landing into a lake of the small plane he was riding in. The pilot “said we are going down,” Tiffany, a Republican, told reporters at a downtown Wausau firehouse. “’Pull your seat belt tight.’ I gave it a yank and pulled it good and tight. It was probably about 10 seconds later … we hit the water.” Tiffany said he and the pilot, Leonard Boltz, remained on top of the plane in Lake Wausau until it began sinking before deciding to try and swim to shore. He said they swam about 100 to 150 feet (30 to 45 meters) until they reached water shallow enough to stand in. “We’re really fortunate that God was looking after us last night,” said the 68-year-old Tiffany. The Marathon County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the emergency landing happened just before 9 p.m. Saturday. Boltz called …

Survivor recounts miraculous escape as 48 Brits still missing in Nepal floods | World | News

Survivor recounts miraculous escape as 48 Brits still missing in Nepal floods | World | News

Published by Sam Flores

Cara Severino has todl her tale after she survived the deadly flash floods in Nepal (Image: undefined) A survivor of last week’s catastrophic flash floods in Nepal has recounted her battle for survival, disclosing she managed to escape after a group armed with a tractor came to her rescue. Cara Severino, 26, is among 42 Australians who were reported missing after the floodwaters tore through the Nepal-Tibet border last Wednesday. She is the sole survivor to have been located. The woman from Wollongong, in the Australian state of New South Wales, had been trekking through the Himalayas when an ice avalanche triggered a sudden torrent of water to rip through the area. As the floodwaters rose rapidly, she revealed that she joined forces with a group attempting to flee the deluge aboard a tractor. Parts of Nepal have been devastated (Image: Getty) She made contact with her parents several days later and was ultimately rescued by Australian embassy officials, who reached her in a four-wheel drive shortly afterwards. Reflecting on her harrowing ordeal, she paid …

‘ Hamas shot me at point-blank range’: Israeli hostage recounts her October 7 abduction into Gaza

‘ Hamas shot me at point-blank range’: Israeli hostage recounts her October 7 abduction into Gaza

Published by Sam Flores

At 6:29am on 7 October 2023, Mia Schem was filming a video with her friend Elia Toledano when the sound of rockets started. They had been waiting for the sun to rise over the Negev desert in southern Israel at the Nova music festival, just 3 miles from the Israel-Gaza border. By the end of the day, the 21-year-old describes how she was shot in the arm by a Hamas militant and taken hostage into the Gaza Strip, and 378 people from the festival would be among 1,200 people killed. Israel launched a relentless two-year barrage of strikes in response, leaving 70,000 Palestinians dead in Gaza and reducing much of the enclave to rubble. In the early days of the war, Hamas released a video of Schem in captivity, the first footage of any of the 251 hostages. The French-Israeli citizen was held in Gaza for 55 days before being released during a brief truce between Israel and Hamas. Mia Schem, 21, appears in a Hamas hostage video in the days following the 7 October …

Tom Holland recounts Christopher Nolan’s unusual question about Zendaya’s Odyssey casting

Tom Holland recounts Christopher Nolan’s unusual question about Zendaya’s Odyssey casting

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Tom Holland revealed that Christopher Nolan asked him whether he would be “offended” if Zendaya was cast as Athena in The Odyssey, before requesting the actor to convey the offer to his wife. The forthcoming film follows Odysseus’s decade-long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War as he fights monsters, gods and other mythical adversaries while his wife Penelope fends off suitors and his son Telemachus searches for his father. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Holland as Telemachus. The cast also includes Robert Pattinson as the suitor Antinous, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy, as well as Jon Bernthal, Benny Safdie, John Leguizamo, Himesh Patel, Samantha Morton, Elliot Page, Mia Goth, and Bill Irwin. The Spider-Man star said the conversation about Zendaya took place after Nolan had offered him the role …

‘Didn’t eat for two weeks’: Female hiker, 49, recounts ordeal of being lost in Malaysian jungle

‘Didn’t eat for two weeks’: Female hiker, 49, recounts ordeal of being lost in Malaysian jungle

Published by Sam Flores

TAPAH, Perak: A Malaysian hiker who was rescued on Saturday (Jun 6) after being reported missing for two weeks during an expedition in Perak said she survived without food, relying only on water she found in the forest. Jaslinda Saludin, 49, was among 14 hikers and two mountain guides taking part in a trek to Gunung Batu Putih that began on May 23, according to local media.  She was reported missing the following day and was found at about 3pm on Saturday by villagers from the Orang Asli settlement of Lubuk Gaharu near the base of the mountain, the New Straits Times reported.  Recounting her ordeal, Jaslinda said she “felt like dying” after becoming separated from her group, reported Harian Metro.  “I really had no food. I did not eat for two weeks. I only ate earlier today,” she said in a video circulating online. In the 30-second clip, believed to have been recorded while she was receiving assistance at the village headman’s house, Jaslinda said that she struggled to find clean drinking water.  “I …

YouTuber Recounts Moment Captain Announces Deaths on MV Hondius

YouTuber Recounts Moment Captain Announces Deaths on MV Hondius

Published by Sam Flores

new video loaded: YouTuber Recounts Moment Captain Announces Deaths on MV Hondius transcript Back transcript YouTuber Recounts Moment Captain Announces Deaths on MV Hondius Since April 11, three passengers who were aboard the Hondius have died and five other people have been sickened after showing symptoms of the hantavirus. The Turkish YouTuber Ruhi Çenet disembarked the ship on April 24, and told The Times how staff members reacted to the first death. Me and my cameraman tried to isolate ourselves. We didn’t leave our cabin as much as we can. We stayed there. Management didn’t understand what was going on and didn’t give any possibility of it — of any, to any contagious disease. “Well, good morning, everybody. One of our passengers sadly passed away last night. Tragic as it is, it was due to natural causes, we believe. And also whatever health issues he was struggling with, I’m told by the doctor were not infectious.” He said a gentleman has passed away. Everyone was shocked, but the ship management tried to calm people down. …

Oz Pearlman recounts WHCA dinner shooting: ‘Really shocking’

Oz Pearlman recounts WHCA dinner shooting: ‘Really shocking’

Published by Sam Flores

Mentalist Oz Pearlman on Sunday recounted when a gunman exchanged fire with law enforcement outside the ballroom where Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was taking place. Pearlman told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he was performing a trick for President Trump, first lady Melania Trump and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt when they heard “commotion” at the Washington Hilton. “It wasn’t gunshots. I wasn’t sure if it was a tray,” he recalled. “We’re also higher than everyone [on stage]. So, we have a very good vantage point versus the thousands of people in the room. And I see everyone swarming one table.” Pearlman noted that he at first thought a “bomb” was about to go off and realized he had to “get down” on the ground.  “It was incredibly surreal,” he added. “I get down. I kind of get down on all fours facing left, stage left, and then I watch. It feels like slow motion because of the way the adrenaline is.” A man, who multiple outlets …

Harrison Ford Recounts His Struggles With Depression

Harrison Ford Recounts His Struggles With Depression

Published by Sam Flores

Actor Harrison Ford attended Ripon College in Wisconsin, but unlike many students, the star’s years as an undergrad were anything but carefree. The man who would travel the world as Indiana Jones “rarely ventured out,” he tells The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast. “On the rare occasion I did go to the classroom, I would often touch the door on the outside of the building, and turn around and walk back.” On Apple TV series Shrinking, which had its third season finale this week, the 83-year-old plays gruff therapist Dr. Paul Rhoades, a role he’s expected to continue (in one form or another) in the show’s upcoming season four. Perhaps his experiences in the show helped him diagnose his younger self, who he says “was more than depressed. I think I was ill. I was socially ill, psychologically not well.” “I would get up out of my single bed, go to a phone, order a pizza, go back and lay down in bed until the pizza came. I would eat the pizza, throw the wrappers …

Jeremy O. Harris Recounts His 23 Days Imprisoned In Japan

Jeremy O. Harris Recounts His 23 Days Imprisoned In Japan

Published by Sam Flores

January 15, 2026 “Jeremy! Oh my God! They let you out?” I didn’t recognize him. He was tall, he was gay, and he knew my name, so the probability of us having a mutual friend was high. He also had the unmistakable upspoken whine of a California gay, so I had to also imagine he could be a coworker of my partner, an agent, or worse, an overfamiliar film exec. I had been invited to the W Hotel in Aspen for Aspen Gay Ski Week and it was my first outing in America since the infamous Reuters headline. When my phone was returned on December 8th, it lit up with so many messages I threw it across the table. Friends, friends of friends, mothers of friends, reporters, politicians, my niece’s middle school principal; they all reached out to ask me (a person they thought was in jail) what they could do to help? Or what happened? How was I? I didn’t respond. I couldn’t. I called my mother. My fiancé. The six friends my fiancé …

‘Like judgement day’: Sudanese doctor recounts escape from el-Fasher | Sudan war News

‘Like judgement day’: Sudanese doctor recounts escape from el-Fasher | Sudan war News

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Physician who fled the city’s last functioning hospital recounts the RSF assault on the capital of North Darfur province in October. Mohamed Ibrahim, a Sudanese doctor, feared he would not live to see the sun go down. “All around we saw people running and falling to the ground in front of us,” the 28-year-old physician said, according to a report by The Associated Press news agency on Saturday. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Ibrahim was recounting the assault on el-Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur, by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that began on October 26 and lasted three days, ending an 18-month siege of the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the province. The RSF and the Sudanese army have been waging a brutal civil war for control of Sudan since April 2023, killing thousands of people and displacing millions. The conflict has created what the United Nations describes as the world’s largest displacement and hunger crisis “We moved from house to house, from wall to wall under nonstop bombardment. …