Pilot Reveals ‘Scorched’ Cabin in Mid-Flight Fire Scare

A pilot aboard a flight to Las Vegas triggered an alert after a cellphone caught fire and “scorched” the cabin. The British Airways Flight 271 from London landed safely at Harry Reid International Airport after the crew reported a cellphone fire to the Federal Aviation Administration. The pilot could be heard on air traffic control audio saying the phone fire “scorched the inside of the cabin,” but that the blaze was under control. While an alert was issued, a British Airways spokesperson told CBS News that the aircraft managed to land as scheduled, passengers were able to disembark safely, and no emergency was declared. It is unclear what caused the cellphone to catch fire, and the FAA said it will be investigating the incident. The FAA advises passengers to keep their cellphones in carry-on bags, not checked luggage, as lithium ion batteries used in devices such as cellphones and laptops are capable of overheating. Only lithium battery-powered rechargeable devices, such as power banks, with a capacity of less than 160 watt-hours are allowed on passenger aircraft. FAA data showed that nearly 100 battery fire incidents occurred in 2025 on planes.

John Paulson and his fiancée, Alina de Almeida, are planning a luxurious overseas wedding as they await the birth of their second child. One of Trump’s earliest supporters, the Paulson & Co. CEO is among the most prominent figures in high finance. The Queens native made it big on Wall Street during the 2008 financial crisis by betting against subprime mortgages, taking home about $8 billion in pay in 2007 and 2008 combined. The couple, who have a 33-year age gap, welcomed their first child, Jacqueline, in 2025. According to Page Six, Paulson, 70, and De Almeida, 37, are planning their destination wedding in Monaco and are expected to have a high-profile guest list. “We chose Monaco because it’s ultra-sophisticated and elegant,” Paulson shared with Page Six. “It’s the creme de la creme of Europe.” The couple is planning their ceremony at Villa La Vigie, located on the luxurious cape of the Monte Carlo Beach, with rooms priced at around $22,000 per night, and the reception at the five-star Hotel de Paris. According to De Almeida, Paulson, who has two adult children with his ex-wife, Jenny Zaharia, “is just a great partner.” She is the founder of the health and wellness brand Effective Lifestyle and has experience working at Columbia and Cornell New York Presbyterian Hospital for her residency and clinical nutrition rotations. “My life is like a dream come true,” the soon-to-be billionaire wife says.

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A federal judge has ordered that Timothy Hudson remain in custody until his murder trial begins later this year, reversing an earlier decision. The 16-year-old, who has been charged as an adult, is accused of killing and sexually assaulting his stepsister, Anna Kepner, 18, aboard the Carnival Horizon cruise in November 2025. Hudson has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and aggravated sexual abuse charges. In a June 10 order, U.S. District Judge Edwin Torres reversed an earlier decision that allowed Hudson to live with an uncle under strict monitoring. The judge wrote that Hudson “presents a danger to himself and to others that no curfew, monitor, or custodial placement can be trusted to contain.” Although Hudson has no prior criminal record and complied with the terms of his release, Torres cited the severity of the allegations and lack of remorse. Kepner’s body was discovered hidden beneath a bed in the cabin she shared with Hudson. Authorities said she had been sexually assaulted and died from asphyxiation. Kepner was a high school senior and cheerleader; she planned to attend the University of Georgia. Her father described her as a “beautiful, bright young girl” whose future was cut short. Kepner’s father, Christopher Kepner, and Hudson’s mother, Shaunter Kepner, married in December 2024.

An extreme athlete famous for performing alongside Madonna during the Super Bowl halftime show in 2012 has died in a tandem jump in eastern Utah. Andy Lewis, 39, died Sunday during a BASE jump in a remote canyon outside Moab, the Grand County Sheriff’s Office said. Also killed was Danny Joe Kregel, a 68-year-old grandfather from Arizona who was harnessed to Lewis. The athlete was a towering figure in the BASE jumping and slacklining world and had long acknowledged the dangers of his profession. “It’s weird to think about how many people are dead,” he said in a 2025 documentary interview. Lewis founded BASE Jump Moab in 2018, a guiding company that strapped paying novices to seasoned jumpers for tandem leaps off desert cliffs. He claimed four straight slacklining world titles from 2008 to 2011 and set a 2011 Guinness World Record for side-surfing a slackline. Lewis vaulted from niche athlete to household name at the 2012 Super Bowl, and in 2014 crossed a slackline strung between a pair of hot-air balloons more than 4,000 feet above Nevada’s desert.

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A tourist is under investigation after allegedly scattering a loved one’s ashes into the waters of Venice. The Daily Mail reported that the woman is French and was caught on tape by passengers aboard a vaporetto waterbus as she allegedly opened a bag and poured out its contents into St. Mark’s Basin near San Giorgio Maggiore. In the footage, a person can be heard shouting, “Are you finished?” at the woman. It has not yet been confirmed whether she did empty human remains into the water, but she faces a hefty fine if she is found to have done so. Venice is a strictly conserved area, and under its laws, ashes can only be scattered on private property outside urban areas, around 2,300 feet off the coast of the Adriatic Sea, or in the Gardens of Remembrance within the cemeteries of San Michele, Mestre, and Marghera. St. Mark’s Basin is not among the permissible locations for the scattering of ashes, and any scattering must have been documented in the last wishes of the dead and later be reported to local authorities.

A former child star was rushed to the hospital after suffering a medical emergency aboard a flight into Los Angeles, prompting paramedics to meet the plane at the gate. According to TMZ, Corey Feldman was arriving at Los Angeles International Airport from Chicago when emergency responders were waiting for him after he became ill during the flight. A source close to Feldman told the outlet that he was feeling “very sick” in the air and was examined by a doctor who happened to be on board. Doctors reportedly believe the issue “might be pancreatitis or gallstones,” according to TMZ. The Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed to TMZ that it responded to the airport for a patient experiencing a medical emergency. A department spokesperson said a 54-year-old man was transported to a local hospital for further evaluation and treatment. TMZ reported that the patient was Feldman and that he remained in the hospital undergoing tests. Feldman starred in a number of hit movies while still a teenager, including Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984), Gremlins (1984), and Stand by Me (1986). Before the health scare, Feldman appeared to be enjoying a trip through the Midwest. He shared posts from the Stand By Me Live Tour in Chicago and also documented a visit to the family home of late pop icon Michael Jackson in Indiana.

The English World Cup team have been busted using a charter plane generally used to transport deportees out of America as part of former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s “ICE Air” fleet. The English team flew into Missouri on Saturday using the same aircraft previously seen in a video President Donald Trump shared last March. That controversial video featured alleged gangbangers, including Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States who was illegally deported and is still in a legal fight to stay in America. Members of the English team, including Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice, posed in front of the plane that is branded Global Crossing Airlines for Instagram pictures. The Daily Mail reports that ICE has a contract with charter company GlobalX, who were formally known as Global Crossing Airlines. The plane England used previously delivered deportees out of America to Haiti, Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala, taking them El Salvador’s infamous mega prison CECOT. The Daily Mail tracked the same plane to previous trips to take deportees from Harlingen to Villahermosa, Mexico, on June 10 and from Lewisburg, West Virginia, to Mexico City on June 11. A spokesperson for the team declined to comment to the Daily Mail on the use of the plane.

New details have emerged in the death of Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, who died in a freak bungee jumping accident on Saturday in São Paulo. The 21-year-old, who was bungee jumping with her fiancé, was thrown off a bridge by staff without a rope, falling 130 feet to the ground below. The bridge is known by locals as the “Skeleton Bridge.” A nurse who was present and spoke to local news said that de Freitas was still conscious after the fall. The nurse, Rayza Dias, told reporters that she talked to de Freitas and tried to reassure her that everything would be ok. Emergency services were called, but de Freitas died at the scene. The incident has sparked a criminal investigation, and six people have been arrested in connection with the incident. Two of the people who were arrested had to be tracked down by helicopter as they attempted to flee the scene, according to military police. Prior to the tragedy, de Freitas had posted a now-ominous Instagram story that read, “Who was the crazy person who let me jump off a bridge?”

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Amanda Seyfried, 40, has finally revealed what she thinks about the backlash her The Housemaid co-star Sydney Sweeney, 28, received after participating in a controversial American Eagle ad. “We had a great time on the press tour... We worked really hard and she seemed to be having fun, but I also understood that it probably can’t be f---ing easy, where she found herself,” Seyfried said in a profile published Monday in British GQ. “I have heard her stand up for herself, but I think she found herself between a rock and a hard place.” Sweeney has been mired in controversy since last summer, after starring in a campaign for American Eagle Jeans in which she said, “Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans,” a phrase many believed was a dog whistle referring to her superior “genes” as a thin, white, blonde woman. The promotion for Sweeney and Seyfried’s movie, The Housemaid, coincided with the backlash over Sweeney’s involvement in the ad, which Seyfried says she largely stayed out of. “I’m just there. I don’t talk to her about it unless she wants to talk about it,” she said. “I don’t want to be a source of anything but whatever you need. You need some fun, you need to laugh, you need cake with me? That’s fine… at the same time, I’m like, ‘We’ve got to promote this movie and I can be a safe space.’”

Eight people have died in a shocking plane crash at a U.S. Air Force Base in California. The B-52 bomber crashed shortly after take-off at Edwards Air Force Base, north of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert, on Monday at around 11.20 a.m., killing all eight crew aboard. Aerial footage showed black smoke rising from the crash site, with almost nothing left of the aircraft. The incident marks the deadliest crash involving a B-52 bomber since 1982, according to CNN. Col. James Hayes, the deputy commander for the 412 test wing at Edwards, said at a news conference that after reviewing footage of the crash, it was determined that nobody could have survived. “We lost eight great Americans,” Hayes said, adding that the Air Force was working to notify the families of the victims, who included government contractors and uniformed military. An analysis by the Washington Post found that after initially flying northeast and then turning north, the aircraft abruptly hooked northwest and began plunging at a rate of more than 5000 feet a minute. Col. Hayes said that it was not immediately clear what caused the crash, and that an investigation could take up to six months to complete.