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Skip to Main Content National News The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI in New York. Keith Srakocic / AP, File By Associated Press updated on July 21, 2025 | 9:35 AM 2 minutes to read Share Share Send this article to your social connections. WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck has died, according to police and his wife, who told a local television outlet that he waved goodbye before his body went limp. The man, 61, had entered an MRI room while a scan was underway Wednesday afternoon at Nassau Open MRI. The machine’s strong magnetic force drew him in by the metallic chain around his neck, according to a release from the Nassau County Police Department. He died Thursday afternoon, but a police officer who answered the phone at the Nassau County police precinct where the MRI facility is located said the department had not yet been given permission to release the name Saturday. Adrienne Jones-McAllister told News 12 Long Island in a recorded interview that she was undergoing an MRI on her knee when she asked the technician to get her husband, Keith McAllister, to help her get off the table. She said she called out to him. She told News 12 that the technician summoned into the room her husband, who was wearing a 20-pound chain that he uses for weight training, an object they’d had a casual conversation about during a previous visit with comments like: “Ooooooh, that’s a big chain!” When he got close to her, she said, “at that instant, the machine switched him around, pulled him in and he hit the MRI.” “I said: ‘Could you turn off the machine, call 911, do something, Turn this damn thing off!’” she recalled, as tears ran down her face. “He went limp in my arms.” She said the technician helped her try to pull her husband off the machine but it was impossible. “He waved goodbye to me and then his whole body went limp,” Jones-McAllister told the TV outlet. Jones-McAllister told News 12 that McAllister suffered heart attacks after he was freed from the MRI machine. A person who answered the phone at Nassau Open MRI on Long Island declined to comment Friday. The phone number went unanswered on Saturday. It wasn’t the first New York death to result from an MRI machine. In 2001, 6-year-old Michael Colombini of Croton-on-Hudson was killed at the Westchester Medical Center when an oxygen tank flew into the chamber, drawn in by the MRI’s 10-ton electromagnet. In 2010, records filed in Westchester County revealed that the family settled a lawsuit for $2.9 million. MRI machines “employ a strong magnetic field” that “exerts very powerful forces on objects of iron, some steels, and other magnetizable objects,” according to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, which says the units are “strong enough to fling a wheelchair across the room.” Most Popular Read More

Skip to Main Content Politics President Donald Trump also said Sunday that he wants Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to its former name, the Indians, saying there was a “big clamoring for this” as well. Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels looks to throw the ball during the NFC Championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025, in Philadelphia. Daniel Kucin Jr. / AP, File By JOE REEDY and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON, Associated Press updated on July 21, 2025 | 9:01 AM 3 minutes to read Share Share Send this article to your social connections. CLEVELAND (AP) — President Donald Trump is threatening to hold up a new stadium deal for Washington’s NFL team if it does not restore its old name of the Redskins, which was considered offensive to Native Americans. Trump also said Sunday that he wants Cleveland’s baseball team to revert to its former name, the Indians, saying there was a “big clamoring for this” as well. The Washington Commanders and Cleveland Guardians have had their current names since the 2022 seasons and both have said they have no plans to change them back. Trump said the Washington football team would be “much more valuable” if it restored its old name. “I may put a restriction on them that if they don’t change the name back to the original ‘Washington Redskins,’ and get rid of the ridiculous moniker, ‘Washington Commanders,’ I won’t make a deal for them to build a Stadium in Washington,” Trump said on his social media site. His latest interest in changing the name reflects his broader effort to roll back changes that followed a national debate on cultural sensitivity and racial justice. The team announced it would drop the Redskins name and the Indian head logo in 2020 during a broader reckoning with systemic racism and police brutality. The Commanders and the District of Columbia government announced a deal earlier this year to build a new home for the football team at the site the old RFK Stadium, the place the franchise called home for more than three decades. Trump’s ability to hold up the deal remains to be seen. President Joe Biden signed a bill in January that transferred the land from the federal government to the District of Columbia. The provision was part of a short-term spending bill passed by Congress in December. While D.C. residents elect a mayor, a city council and commissioners to run day-to-day operations, Congress maintains control of the city’s budget. Josh Harris, whose group bought the Commanders from former owner Dan Snyder in 2023, said earlier this year the name was here to stay. Not long after taking over, Harris quieted speculation about going back to Redskins, saying that would not happen. The team did not immediately respond to a request for comment following Trump’s statement. The Washington team started in Boston as the Redskins in 1933 before moving to the nation’s capital four years later. The Cleveland Guardians’ president of baseball operations, Chris Antonetti, indicated before Sunday’s game against the Athletics that there weren’t any plans to revisit the name change. “We understand there are different perspectives on the decision we made a few years ago, but obviously it’s a decision we made. We’ve got the opportunity to build a brand as the Guardians over the last four years and are excited about the future that’s in front of us,” he said. Cleveland announced in December 2020 it would drop Indians. It announced the switch to Guardians in July 2021. In 2018, the team phased out “Chief Wahoo” as its primary logo. The name changes had their share of supporters and critics as part of the national discussions about logos and names considered racist. Trump posted Sunday afternoon that “The Owner of the Cleveland Baseball Team, Matt Dolan, who is very political, has lost three Elections in a row because of that ridiculous name change. What he doesn’t understand is that if he changed the name back to the Cleveland Indians, he might actually win an Election. Indians are being treated very unfairly. MAKE INDIANS GREAT AGAIN (MIGA)!” Matt Dolan, the son of the late Larry Dolan, no longer has a role with the Guardians. He ran the team’s charity endeavors until 2016. Matt Dolan was a candidate in the Ohio U.S. Senate elections in 2022 and ’24, but lost. Washington and Cleveland share another thing in common. David Blitzer is a member of Harris’ ownership group with the Commanders and holds a minority stake in the Guardians. Gomez Licon reported from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Most Popular Read More

Skip to Main Content National News “We’re living in a climate that we’ve never seen, and it keeps throwing us curveballs.” Natalie Newman’s new home is filled with items she had to replace after Hurricane Helene swept away the apartment building where she lived. Jesse Barber / The Washington Post By Sarah Kaplan, Kevin Crowe, Naema Ahmed, Ben Noll, Washington Post July 21, 2025 | 8:46 AM 16 minutes to read Share Share Send this article to your social connections. Natalie Newman believed she had done everything she could to get ready for Helene. Before the hurricane carved a path of destruction across the Southeast in late September, she assumed it would be like other storms she’d experienced in five years of living in Asheville, North Carolina. So Newman took her usual precautions: packing a go-bag, stocking up on food, moving her car uphill from her apartment on the banks of the Swannanoa River. When Newman’s phone buzzed with a flash-flood warning the night before the storm hit, she skimmed the text: “This is a dangerous and life-threatening situation. Do not attempt to travel unless you are fleeing an area subject to flooding or under an evacuation order.” Then the artist returned to the painting she was working on. The river was still at least 20 feet below her second-story apartment, and she hadn’t received an evacuation order. If her home was no longer safe, Newman thought, surely officials would tell her to leave. But no order would come before the deadly floodwaters arrived at her door. The Swannanoa River alongside what remains of Newman’s apartment complex in Asheville on June 15. Jesse Barber / The Washington Post From last year’s disaster in Asheville to this month’s catastrophic floods in Central Texas, the world has entered a new era of rainfall supercharged by climate change, rendering existing response plans inadequate. A Washington Post analysis of atmospheric data found a record amount of moisture flowing in the skies over the past year and a half, largely due to rising global temperatures. With so much warm, moist air available as fuel, storms are increasingly able to move water vapor from the oceans to locations hundreds of miles from the coast, triggering flooding for which most inland communities are ill-prepared. “We’re living in a climate that we’ve never seen, and it keeps throwing us curveballs,” said Kathie Dello, North Carolina’s state climatologist. “How do you plan for the worst thing you’ve never seen?” To understand why inland regions are so vulnerable to heavy rainfall, The Post compared the response to Helene in western North Carolina with that of Florida’s Gulf Coast, where the storm hit first. The investigation, based on analysis of cellphone data and interviews with two dozen meteorologists, disaster experts and storm survivors, revealed how scant flood awareness and a lack of effective warnings led to far fewer evacuations in North Carolina’s mountainous western counties. Yet it was in these inland areas that Helene wrought its greatest human toll. At least 78 people in North Carolina died in Helene’s floodwaters, according to data from the National Hurricane Center – more than five times the number of people who drowned on the coast. The fact that many North Carolinians remained in harm’s way was not the fault of any one person or institution, The Post found. Instead, it resulted from a cascade of decisions all stemming from the mistaken assumption that hurricanes are mainly a coastal threat – an assumption that fails to account for the increasingly destructive power of torrential rain. As Helene bore down on the Gulf Coast, years of investment and experience equipped officials there to take decisive action, issuing mandatory evacuation orders to move people out of risk zones well before landfall. But most counties in western North Carolina – including Buncombe, where Asheville is located – lack the most basic tool: flood evacuation plans. The state’s official hurricane guide labels these areas as “host counties,” places to which coastal evacuees should flee. Though the National Weather Service correctly predicted that the flooding would be deadly, the warnings from local authorities were not forceful or specific enough to sway residents who never imagined a hurricane could hurt them so far from the sea. Evacuation patterns reflected this preparedness gap: Cellphone data provided by researchers at Columbia University and analyzed by The Post shows a 36 percent spike in people leaving affected counties in Florida for areas beyond Helene’s path in the four days before the storm hit. In contrast, movement out of the hardest-hit North Carolina counties didn’t change much compared with a normal week. By the time Buncombe County made evacuation orders mandatory, deadly flash floods were already underway. This reconstruction of North Carolina’s scramble during Helene reveals parallels with Central Texas and holds lessons for other inland areas facing increasingly intense freshwater floods – an oft-overlooked hazard that now accounts for more than half of all tropical-cyclone-related deaths in the United States. Like western North Carolina, the Texas Hill Country is a landscape of winding rivers and steep terrain that can quickly funnel heavy rainfall into a raging torrent. Forecasters had predicted that remnants of Tropical Storm Barry could collide with another storm system to inundate the flood-prone region, but authorities did not call for evacuations in the hardest-hit area, and warnings didn’t reach many residents until it was too late for them to flee. Climate and weather experts say both disasters were exacerbated by Earth’s rapidly warming atmosphere. The Post’s atmospheric analysis shows that the roiling air mass that constituted Helene contained 42 percent more water vapor than any other observed in western North Carolina since 1940- fueling a storm that obliterated the region’s rainfall records. Another plume brought record levels of moisture to Texas during the July 4 floods. If Helene was a wake-up call, experts said, then Texas must be a screaming alarm – prompting more robust flood planning in communities across the country and new efforts to communicate a danger beyond

Skip to Main Content National News Melina Frattolin was reported missing from near Lake George in northeast New York late Saturday evening by her father, Luciano Frattolin. By The Associated Press updated on July 21, 2025 | 11:27 AM 1 minute to read Share Share Send this article to your social connections. LATHAM, N.Y. (AP) — A Canadian man who reported his 9-year-old daughter missing in New York has been arrested after she was found dead, authorities said Monday. Luciano Frattolin, the father of Melina Frattolin, was charged with second-degree murder and concealing of a corpse, New York State Police spokesman Robert McConnell said. State Police said Luciano Frattolin reported the girl missing and possibly abducted on Saturday, leading officials to issue an Amber Alert to enlist the public’s help in finding her. But authorities said over the weekend that there were inconsistencies in the father’s account, and that they concluded there was no evidence of an abduction. Authorities found the girl’s body on Sunday north of Lake George village, near state border with Vermont Frattolin, 45, did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent via LinkedIn, Instagram and his company website over the weekend. He described himself as a “loving father” on his Instagram profile, and on the website of a coffee company said to be founded by him, a post says that his daughter Melina is “the light of his life.” Police said Frattolin had no prior criminal or domestic violence history. Most Popular Read More

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India’s pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah is all set to return for the crucial fourth Test against England in Manchester, confirmed teammate Mohammed Siraj. Bumrah’s availability had been a subject of much speculation after team management initially decided to manage his workload by playing him in only three of the five Tests. Bumrah to Bolster India’s