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Johnny Carson was America’s ultimate late-night host. The comedian’s most beloved gig was hosting “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” for 30 seasons from 1962 until his retirement in 1992. His nephew, Jeff Sotzing, worked alongside his uncle, starting off as a receptionist in 1977, before becoming a producer on the show by ’92. “I think he’d be flattered,” the television producer exclusively told The Post of how the late star would think of the current “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon “It has so many elements that the ‘Tonight Show’ that I worked on did not have because of the...

SNIP For nearly a decade now, Piker, who streams under the name HasanAbi, has been one of the most famous political commentators in America. If you’re a certain type of mainstream liberal—or a not-very-online moderate or conservative, for that matter—you may not have heard of him. His precise class of celebrity is difficult to describe, but in some respects, he has inherited the role of the agenda-setting television pundit for a generation that ditched the traditional medium long ago, if it ever knew it at all. Piker streams every day, weekends and holidays included. Outside of a few bathroom breaks,...

MARIETTA, Ga. — Former professional football and baseball player Bo Jackson is giving up a $21 million judgment against his niece and nephew, whom he said harassed and tried to extort money from him. A judge in February ruled in Jackson’s favor in the suit he had filed in April 2023 against Thomas Lee Anderson and Erica M. Anderson, also known as Erica Anderson Ross. Jackson, a running back who won the Heisman Trophy at Auburn and also played in both the NFL and MLB, Jackson had alleged in his lawsuit that his relatives tried to extort $20 million from...

Donald Trump’s nephew, Fred Trump III claimed Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that his uncle, former President Donald Trump, did not care about members of the U.S. military. Trump said, “We spoke the last time we were here about how I had the honor of meeting Senator McCain.” He continued, “This is a genuine hero. Let’s make no mistake about it. The fact that Donald called him, in essence, a loser, I don’t get it. But anyone who is disabled or anyone who he deems lesser than him is a loser, which, ok, that’s just the way he is. That ain’t...

Does anyone have any experience in getting help for a seriously disturbed friend or relative? In this case, the seriously disturbed person is our nephew, aged 38, and we're really beginning to worry about what is going to happen to him in the not-too-distant future. He dropped out of high school in the 9th or 10th grade. I don't think he's ever read a book. He cannot hold a job: there is almost NO chance of that. In fact, I'd guess he's never held a job more than a month or two, tops. I once caught him bringing marijuana into...

Two US officials involved in negotiations over renewing the 2015 Irn nuclear deal have stepped back from the talks and a third has left the team altogether amid internal discord over how firm the White House should be with Tehran, according to a report. Richard Nephew, the State Department's deputy special envoy for Iran who pushed for a tougher approach, has not been part of the talks since early December, Wall Street Journal reported Monday. A State Department spokesman told Reuters late Monday that Nephew was no longer in the envoy role, though he was still at the department. Two...

RUSH: Seattle and this is Pete. Great to have you, Pete. How are you? CALLER: I am fine, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you. RUSH: Thank you very much, sir. CALLER: The sin that those four fellows committed was not being swamp dwellers. They were probably — RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hang on. He's talking about the four people that were innocent that were kept in jail by Mueller so as to protect Whitey Bulger's informant status. Okay. These four, they were not swamp dwellers, you're saying. CALLER: So in that case, Mueller's crime was...

Amid speculation that Chelsea Clinton is going to run for some sort of office, another Clinton has stepped out of the political dynasty for the time being. Tyler — nephew of Hillary and Bill and son of Bill’s half-brother Roger — is officially becoming a professional hot person: The 22-year-old signed a contract with IMG Models, TMZ first reported. All Clinton needs to do now is learn how to DJ — the default second career of models everywhere — and the Democrats will absolutely run him as their first model/DJ for president in 2044.

NEW YORK – A Manhattan woman is suing her own nephew after the excited 8-year-old’s hug allegedly caused her to fall and break her wrist. Jennifer Connell testified against Sean Tarala, who is now 12 years old, on Friday in Westport court. Tarala, accompanied by his father, Michael Tarala, appeared confused during a hearing Friday, according to the ctpost. The boy lost his mother, Lisa Tarala, when she died last year. Connell, a 54-year-old human resources manager, said she loves her nephew, whom she called “very loving,” but told the court he should be held responsible for her injury. Connell...

An 11-year-old New Jersey boy was shot dead over the weekend when his uncle was showing off a number of guns that he thought were unloaded, and pointed one with a laser sight at the child’s forehead. The Pocono Record reported that State Police responded to reports of shots fired in a gated community in Delaware Township at around 5:35 p.m. on Saturday. According to a police report, the 11-year-old child was visiting the home of his grandfather. The boy allegedly asked his uncle, 34-year-old Chad Olm, who lives in the basement, to see his gun collection. Olm told police...

August 26, 2013 Veteran Delbert Benton's great-nephew on senseless crime Allen Hills on manhunt for second suspect

Global medical technology firm Smith & Nephew announced Thursday the layoff of almost 100 workers at its Tennessee and Massachusetts plants — and placed blame for the drawdown firmly at the feet of Obamacare. The London-based company makes orthopedic reconstruction products. It faces a 2.3 percent tax on its medical devices, due to Obamacare mandates, Fox News reports. In a statement, the company said: “Unfortunately, and in order to absorb this cost burden into or business, this has meant less than 100 positions have been made redundant across various departmental functions in our Tennessee and Massachusetts sites,” according to Fox...

An extraordinary letter from the nephew of Adolf Hitler has been discovered in which he begs to be allowed to enlist in the U.S. Army to fight against his uncle's facist regime. William Patrick Hitler fled Nazi Germany when war broke out in 1939 to come and live with relatives in New York. After being rejected from the U.S. Army because of his family connection, he wrote an emotional plea to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 on why he so strongly wanted to fight for Allied Forces.n the letter, he wrote: 'I am the nephew and only descendant of...

A Texas woman was arrested after relatives said they caught her having sex with a 15-year-old boy on Thanksgiving Day. The scene unfolded at a family gathering held on the holiday at a house in Oakridge Forest Lane in Spring. Police arrested Amanda Billiris, 23, after relatives said they witnessed her having sexual intercourse with the boy, the arrest report states. The avid motorcycle racer has been charged with sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony, reports the Houston Courier. According to the Texas Penal Code, if convicted, she faces between two to 20 years in prison. Ms Billaris...

When family members decided Monday's burglary of 75-year-old Frank Dusenka's home in Chisago City, Minn., was an inside-the-family job, they didn't wait for police to investigate, according to court documents filed this week. Instead, Dusenka's son, Bradley Anthony Dusenka, and son-in-law, Marcus Lee Clay, allegedly took matters into their own hands. Specifically, they're accused of taking an ax handle and a boat oar into their own hands, kidnapping their 25-year-old nephew and beating him so severely that he spent most of this week in the hospital.

The nephew of the interim President of Honduras Roberto Micheletti has been found dead in what the police are calling an execution style killing. Enzo Micheletti's body was discovered on Sunday in woodland near Choloma, 250 km north of the capital, Tegucigalpa. Police say his hands were tied behind his back and his body was riddled with bullets There is no indication that his death is connected to the coup that brought his uncle to power at the end of June.

HOUSTON—Houston homicide detectives are investigating a shooting in Southeast Houston involving an uncle and a nephew. Police arrived at the scene in the 6000 block of Doulton Drive around 2 a.m. Tuesday. When they got there, officers said they found a 40-year-old man in the middle of the street with a shot to the chest. That man was transported to Ben Taub in critical condition and later died. The man’s uncle said he called police after shooting his nephew. In an interview with police, the 50-year-old uncle told investigators that it all started late Monday night when he asked his...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- A former aide to Sen. Barbara Boxer was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. Jeff Rosato, 32, of Arlington, Va., who was remanded into custody after pleading guilty in January, must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said at a hearing in Alexandria, Va. "He lost everything he worked so hard to achieve up to this point in his life. Rosato is keenly aware of the consequences of his actions and the new choices he must make for himself and...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- A nephew of Trevor Berbick has been convicted along with another man of killing the 54-year-old former heavyweight champion. A jury Thursday found 21-year-old Harold Berbick guilty of murder and 19-year-old Kenton Gordon guilty of manslaughter in the death of the former boxer. The judge ordered both men jailed pending their Jan. 11 sentencing. Authorities said the nephew and Gordon beat Berbick to death in October 2006, leaving his body in a church courtyard in Portland. Harold Berbick had been involved in a land dispute with his uncle. Trevor Berbick was the last fighter to face...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- On the same night George W. Bush formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his nephew, George P. Bush, delivered his own prime-time convention address -- peppered with Spanish -- about the party's new message of "compassionate conservatism." "He is a good man," the younger Bush said of his uncle to the cheering GOP convention crowd at the Comcast First Union Center. "I am proud of the governor he has been, determined to do what is right and fearlessly inclusive." Bush, the son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and his Mexican-born wife Columba, is the youth chairman of...