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Christopher Andersen, author of the upcoming book The King: The Life of Charles III, told chief royal correspondent Jack Royston and royal commentator Kristen Meinzer that the new monarch came perilously close to death numerous times, including during air force training, skiing accidents and road incidents. “He’s such an enigma and complicated and inconsistent person,” Andersen said of the king as a biographical subject. “One of the interesting and curious things is the number of times he’s cheated death, which I thought was fascinating....

In a statement, Police Scotland said the 22-year-old, who has not been named, was charged with breach of the peace following the incident which occurred as the Queen’s cortege passed through Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on Monday. The suspect is alleged to have yelled “Andrew! You’re a sick old man!” at the prince in an apparent reference to the allegations surrounding the royal and his relationship with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....

The Duke of York’s attorney, Andrew, Brettler engaged in a series of heated exchanges with a judge on Tuesday over whether Virginia Giuffre had the right to sue him. The prince’s team argue his accuser signed a $500,000 settlement with Jeffrey Epstein that released “other potential defendants” from liability. However, the judge indicated he may have no right to enforce the document due to a clause stipulating it was “not intended to be used by any other person....

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were due to appear at the WellChild Awards in London on Thursday evening, September 8. A spokesperson told Newsweek: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be traveling to Scotland.” Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and the Queen’s other children are at or traveling to Balmoral Castle, where the 96-year-old spent her summer holiday. Princess Anne, her daughter, is already at Balmoral....

Promotional material for “The Me You Can’t See” suggests the celebrity guests get into some intense subject matter as they well up recalling their past struggles. Prince Harry and Oprah teamed up for the project, which sees the duke turn the tables on his own superstar interviewer. While their CBS prime time special saw Oprah guide Harry through his experiences leaving the royal family, their latest project sees the prince ask her the questions....

The Duke of Sussex said he had been fighting since January 2020 to get his Metropolitan Police protection reinstated, offering to pay for the cost himself. His legal representative said he filed for a “judicial review” of the Home Office decision believing it is currently too dangerous for him to return to his home country, in a statement on Sunday, January 16. Eric Schiffer, chairman of Reputation Management Consultants, told Newsweek: “Harry has forgotten that he cut and run to America and decided to cash out the crown....

Queen Elizabeth II’s husband can be seen in pictures walking from King Edward VII’s Hospital, London, into a waiting car behind a white screen put up by staff. He was then driven away from the private hospital where he has been recovering following a heart procedure earlier this month. Buckingham Palace said the 99-year-old “returned to Windsor Castle” on Tuesday “following treatment for an infection and a successful procedure for a pre-existing condition....

Savitz had remained silent, however, prosecutors would have been prohibited by Pennsylvania’s AIDS privacy laws from disclosing that he had the disease.

Green Bay, Kansas City, Seattle and Baltimore were tied with the most players to make the rosters at seven players apiece. The Dallas Cowboys did not have a player on the Pro Bowl for just the third time in franchise history. The other years were 1986 and 1989. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (over age 26) made his ninth Pro Bowl and Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson (also over 26) is making his eighth Pro Bowl in nine seasons....

In voting announced Thursday night, Michael Strahan also was selected a modern-era finalist along with Charles Haley, Kevin Greene, Andre Reed, Jerome Bettis, Tim Brown, John Lynch, Will Shields, Aeneas Williams, Morten Andersen and Edward DeBartolo Jr. Senior nominees Ray Guy and Claude Humphrey were announced in August. The 46-member selection committee will vote Feb. 1 in New York, with a minimum 80 percent required for induction. Strahan, Andersen and Lynch are in their second year of eligibility....

In the United States, protesters and city workers have already removed statues in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and other states, and this is only the beginning. Anti-racist demonstrators in Richmond, Virginia, for example, are currently fighting to take down a huge equestrian statue representing pro-slavery General Robert E. Lee, who was commander of the Confederate States Army. And roughly 700 Confederate monuments in the country remain....

The State Election Board voted on Tuesday to dismiss the case the Georgia secretary of state’s office launched in February into where Wood had been living when he voted early in person in Georgia during the 2020 general election. A spokesperson for the secretary of state’s office said there was no violation found. The investigation was launched once the secretary of state’s office found out from a television reporter that Wood had possibly been living in South Carolina at the time he voted....

Haunted by a morgue photograph, Lt. Rick Davey, 42, investigator for the Hartford Fire Department, decided to find out who she was. Beginning in 1982, he studied files and interviewed old-timers. He publicly identified her last month as Eleanor Cook. If Davey could solve that mystery, what about the fire itself? At the time, the police concluded that a dropped cigarette, probably igniting the tent, caused the fire. But Davey found witnesses who said the flames started high on the tent wall....

Explaining the reduced threat level, Smith said last night that the “very latest intelligence” showed no indication that another attack is expected imminently. But she still urged the public to “remain vigilant.” The move was based on an assessment by the British government’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Center, and considered factors including capability, intent and timescale, Smith said. While Britain may be relaxing a bit, other countries believed to be implicated in the origins of the plot went on a more watchful footing....

Jarvis, 17, who was a member of the e-sports team FaZe clan, posted an emotional video on his YouTube channel Sunday explaining to his nearly 2 million subscribers why he received the ban. In the video, the young gamer explained that he was banned from Fortnite for uploading videos to his YouTube channel that show him using an aimbot to improve his accuracy in the first-person shooter game. Aimbots are programs designed to improve play by cheating the in-game system to falsely improve performance....

Today, arriving at a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s is often a prolonged and agonizing ordeal; Reagan’s doctors reportedly took a year to reach their verdict. The only certain diagnosis can be made by examining the brain after death, which reveals the nerve tangles and protein deposits, known as plaques, that characterize the disease. In living patients, doctors make a diagnosis-using verbal testing and a history from the family-only after eliminating other causes of mental deterioration, such as stroke, depression, overmedication or a tumor....

One video of the protesters showed police on horses having a skirmish with demonstrators near Red Arrow Park. One Black female protester on a megaphone said to police, “We’re not scared of no horses! We not scared no more… We know now that we have power! Get out of here!” Soon after, roughly eight or more police officers on bicycles entered the scene as one protester repeatedly shouted, “Fck all of y’all!...

Kendra Horn, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, revealed the endorsement from Kris Steele on Twitter on Wednesday, sharing a video of the Republican expressing his support for her. Steele served in the Oklahoma House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013 and was its speaker from 2011 to 2013, as well as speaker pro tempore from 2009 to 2011. “I’m honored to receive the endorsement of Kris Steele, former Republican Speaker of the Oklahoma House,” Horn wrote on Twitter....