Ye, the musician who was formerly known as Kanye West, is facing sexual assault charges in a complaint alleging that he jammed his fingers in a model's mouth during a 2010 music video and choked her, a practice known as pornographic gagging. A federal lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York claims that the incident happened at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. According to the lawsuit, the model, Jenifer An, was a background actor for a music video in which Ye appeared as a guest star. On Saturday, NBC News contacted a New York City Police Department and Ye spokesman for comment. According to the lawsuit, Ye took over the production and the production team a few hours into the video shoot. In particular, he directed Plaintiff and the other fe...

The main professional sports leagues in North America have warned its athletes about the increasing threat posed by organized, high-tech burglary rings, whose preferred tools are 90-day calendars, passports, and advanced electronics. Citing FBI intelligence, the NBA report directly connected the offenses to multinational South American Theft Groups that prey on high-net-worth persons, including prominent players. These organizations are renowned for employing sophisticated tactics including drones, signal-jamming devices, pre-surveillance, and other state-of-the-art equipment. The NFL emphasized the dangers of rich athletes being targeted by what it described as sophisticated and coordinated groups of burglars. The warnings, which did not identify the victims, were sent out in response to...

NEW YORK Alice Brock, whose restaurant in Massachusetts served as the inspiration for Arlo Guthrie's famous Thanksgiving classic, Alice's Restaurant Massacree, passed away at the age of 83. Guthrie revealed her passing on his own Rising Son Records' Facebook page on Friday, only one week before Thanksgiving. She passed away in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she lived for about 40 years, according to Guthrie, who also mentioned that her health was deteriorating. Additional information was not immediately available. Guthrie wrote, "This Thanksgiving will be the first without her." Alice sounded like her normal self when we spoke on the phone a few weeks ago. Despite the fact that we knew we would never have another opportunity to speak, we joked around and shared a few good laughs. A ...

United Arab Emirates' DUBAI As tensions with Iran remain high, Israeli authorities raised the possibility on Saturday that an Israeli-Moldovan rabbi who was living in the United Arab Emirates may have been abducted. Unnamed security sources cited by Israeli media suggested that Zvi Kogan, who has been missing since Thursday midday, might have been abducted. Without providing further details, the Israeli prime minister's office reported Kogan's disappearance on Saturday night. His absence coincides with Iran's threats of retaliation against Israel following an October strike that targeted Israel's sensitive military installations. Amid the Israeli ground offensive in Lebanon and the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip, Tehran has launched missile attacks on Israel twice. A request for...

More than a month after a dead baby was discovered in the Safe Haven Baby Box at the Grove Creek Medical Center in Blackfoot, an Idaho adolescent was taken into custody, according to the police. On October 13, a medical team responded to an alarm alerting them that an infant had been placed in the medical center, and within a minute, the newborn girl was taken out of the box. However, according to a news release from Safe Haven Baby Boxes last month, it was found that the newborn had been dead for a long time when she was put in the baby box. According to a news release issued by the Blackfoot Police Department on Friday, "The Safe Haven Baby Box is intended to safely and anonymously allow custodial parents to surrender a newborn under 30 days old without legal repercussions, provided the ...

Only Palestinian suspects can be detained indefinitely without trial, according to Israel's new defense minister, who also stated that security forces will no longer impose administrative detention orders on Jewish residents in the occupied West Bank. The controversial policy revisions, which come amid the battles in Gaza and Lebanon and the election of President-elect Donald Trump, are the most recent manifestation of an emboldened Israeli far-right. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's longtime supporter Israel Katz, who was named defense minister earlier in November, made the announcement on Friday. According to Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, 3,340 Palestinians were detained in administrative custody in June, more than twice as many as were detained prior to the October 7, ...