Vincent Pastore, who played Salvatore “Big Pussy” Bonpensiero on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” has died at 80. His manager said the longtime Bronx resident died at home, and authorities reported no indication of criminality.
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A small plane carrying tourists over Peru’s Nazca Lines crashed Saturday, killing all 13 people on board. Officials said the aircraft had departed from Pisco, and the cause of the crash was not immediately clear.
The State Department told Americans across the Middle East to consider leaving or be ready to depart quickly as the conflict with Iran escalates. The warning followed U.S. strikes on Iran and Trump’s statement that the U.S. will be “hitting them very hard.”
Russian missile strikes killed at least nine people in Kyiv and injured dozens as Ukraine pushed for more Patriot interceptors. Ukraine also said its drones sank a sanctioned Russian container ship in the Black Sea, while Moscow said all crew members were rescued.
At least three people were killed after a woman detonated a homemade explosive device near a Moscow restaurant, Russian state media reported. Authorities said more than a dozen people were injured and emergency services sealed off the area around Kudrinskaya Square.
Federal prosecutors moved to drop vandalism charges against former Olympian David Hearn after saying damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was caused by a botched installation. President Donald Trump disputed the decision and insisted vandalism caused the major damage.
A truck bomb outside a police station in Cucuta injured eight officers and three civilians days before President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella takes office. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack near Colombia’s border with Venezuela.
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed has become a national test of the party’s divide between establishment pragmatism and progressive insurgency. The winner will likely face Republican Mike Rogers in a race central to Democrats’ hopes of controlling the Senate.