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Wednesday June 17th, 2026 night edition

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A major figure in the music world waded in to help organize a GoFundMe that raised more than $25,000 to help a New York City cab driver whose car was ruined by Knicks fans after the team’s NBA Finals win.

The occasion saw New Yorkers climbing on top of buses and cars, setting off fireworks and flares and chanting “Knicks in five!”

The driver, Noureddine Bitat, was standing outside the car, with a look of disbelief about the chaos surrounding him.

The X user who posted the video wrote: “A cab driver was left speechless and can no longer make a living after Knicks fans destroyed his car.”.

open image in gallery French Montana partnered with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance to create a GoFundMe page for the cab driver ( Getty Images / GoFund Me ).

Photos on the GoFundMe page showed that the front windshield of Bitat’s cab is completely broken in.

A more formal Knicks celebration will take place this week, with a ticker-tape parade scheduled for Thursday in Lower Manhattan. »

Mississippi Officer Shoots, Kills 1-Year-Old Child in Senatobia

Authored by mississippifreepress.org
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A Mississippi police officer shot 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley while responding to a shoplifting call on Sunday, killing him and critically wounding an adult.

The June 14 shooting involved officers from the Senatobia Police Department and the Tate County Sheriff’s Department.

Kohen Wiley, 1, died after a police officer shot into a sedan in Senatobia, Miss., on June 14, 2026. »

Bungee jumper says it was an ‘unusual day’ with ‘long delays’ when woman tragically died

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A man who bungee jumped off the same bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, hours before a 21-year-old woman died on Saturday has spoken out about what an “unusual day” it was.

Six people have been arrested in connection with her death, a representative for the São Paulo government confirmed to PEOPLE.

A man called Emanuel Silva, who bungee jumped there on the same day, has spoken out about his experience. »

Cancelled Xbox 360 version of GoldenEye 007 gets recompiled for PC — ‘No emulator, the game runs as a real native executable,’ insists dev

Authored by tomshardware.com
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Gaming-focused social media channels are excited with this release, which provides “a native PC port of GoldenEye 007 (Xbox 360 / XBLA), built by statically recompiling the original game into C++ with the ReXGlue SDK,” states the dev.

GoldenEye was a seminal release for consoles, establishing that FPS games were a compelling proposition beyond the realms of PCs and keyboard/mouse control.

If and when you get the Xbox 360 version of the game recompiled for PC, though, you should expect the following thrilling benefits:. »