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The New York Yankees home jersey from Lou Gehrig's last dominant season as a big leaguer is on the auction block ... and it's expected to sell for a whopping $3-4 MILLION!

1937 was the last time Gehrig would play a season unaffected by ALS -- the progressive, neurological disease that ultimately took his life in 1941 -- and was he ever great.

The Iron Horse put up ridiculous numbers, blasting 37 home runs and driving in 159 runs, all while batting .351. Gehrig only struck out 49 times (for reference, last year's league leader struck out 221 times).

The U.S. Capitol is on fire, kind of ... a fire started in a underground tunnel that connects Congressional buildings by train ... and it landed two police officers in the hospital.

The fire sparked Thursday afternoon on the Capitol subway system and two U.S. Capitol Police officers were taken to a local hospital for further evaluation.

Officials say there were no injuries among train passengers. It's unclear who was on the train.

4:49 PM PT -- A spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line tells TMZ ... "The Carnival Radiance crew responded to a potential overboard alert off the coast north of Ensenada, Mexico when some guests reported hearing a splash in the water.  The ship returned to the area where there was a potential sighting of an individual to conduct a rescue operation. In the meantime, the crew completed a full guest and crew headcount as is our standard safety protocol and all guests and crew have been accounted for. The splash could have very well been a whale but there is no way to confirm that. In any case, all on board are accounted for and the ship will resume its itinerary."

A rescue operation is underway in the Pacific Ocean after a passenger went overboard on a Carnival cruise.

Carnival Cruise Line tells TMZ ... the Carnival Radiance crew is responding to an overboard alert off the coast north of Ensenada, Mexico.

We're told the cruise ship is returning to where there was a potential sighting of a person in the water ... and we obtained video of rescue boats in the water searching for the passenger, plus footage of someone splashing around.

President Donald Trump has signed a bill legislating the release of the Epstein Files ... but a Democratic lawmaker does not have faith the Commander in Chief will honor the commitment.

Rep. Suhas Subramanyam stopped by TMZ Live Thursday to tell us Trump's signature doesn't guarantee a whole lot. The Virginia congressman told us he wouldn't be surprised if Trump tampered with the files, or only releases files relating to Democrats, or withholds anything that could make him look bad.

Suhas said ... "I think that's why he was so quick to sign the legislation."

Disturbing behavior down in Florida ... a man in Miami walked into a dance studio and stuck his nose in the couch cushion where an underage girl had just been sitting ... it's all on video, and now cops are involved.

The creepy footage from inside a Miami dance studio picks up with a girl sitting on a couch near the front door ... she gets up to leave, and then a man enters, makes sure the coast is clear, and then buries his face in the cushion where she'd been sitting moments earlier.

Miami Springs PD Chief Matthew Castillo tells TMZ ... one of the owners of a local dance studio contacted cops that night to report the "disturbing" incident, which happened Tuesday night as business was winding down.

New images from the deadly UPS cargo plane crash in Kentucky show the left engine exploding during takeoff ... and the blast sparked a massive fireball.

Check out these photos that were just released by NTSB investigators ... the plane is taking off and a fireball appears on the left wing.

The engine rockets upwards, detaching as the explosion and the fireball keep getting bigger as the plane lifts off.

Donald Trump’s reigniting his beef with Jimmy Kimmel after the talk show quipped the Prez would be "bracing for Hurricane Epstein" Wednesday night ... and let’s just say, Trump did not find the weather forecast funny.

Trump went off in a Truth Social post Wednesday, ranting about why ABC "fake news" keeps Jimmy on air ... calling him talentless, dragging his ratings, alleging "biased" network coverage, and ending it with one heck of a burn ... "Get the bum off the air!!!"

Now, he could just be popping off for sport ... but it’s way more likely he’s reacting to Jimmy’s late-night talk show monologue last night, claiming Trump will be a major name in the Epstein files release.

President Trump wants to see a group of Democratic Congressmen and women arrested and strung up for openly urging U.S. soldiers to disobey his orders.

POTUS is firing back at the 2 U.S. Senators and 4 Representatives -- all ex-military or CIA -- who put together a video in which they encourage current members of the military to refuse unlawful and un-Constitutional orders from their superiors.

Thursday morning on Truth Social, he called the video "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL."

8:22 AM PT -- Natalie Greene's lawyer, Louis Barbone, tells TMZ ... "At the age of 26, my client served her community working full time to assist the constituents of the Congressman with loyalty and fidelity. She did that while being a full-time student. Under the law, she is presumed innocent and reserves all of her defenses for presentation in a court of law."

After a New Jersey woman reported she was zip-tied and slashed all over her body, with the words "Trump Whore" carved into her stomach ... authorities say she made the whole thing up, and even paid an artist to cut her skin to help sell the fabricated attack.

In court papers obtained by TMZ, federal prosecutors say the 26-year-old woman paid $500 to have a body modification artist she found on Instagram to expertly slice her up with a scalpel. Natalie Greene -- a former aide to a GOP Congressman -- is now facing charges.

Greene claimed 3 armed men attacked her and a friend on July 23 at Egg Harbor Township Nature Reserve in New Jersey. She said they threatened to shoot her before striking her in the head, tying her with zip-ties, and carving up her face and body. She also claimed they wrote political slurs on her stomach and back. Check out the photos.

Donald Trump has signed the bill to require the Justice Department to release all unclassified records relating to Jeffrey Epstein.

This comes after the bill was put on the House floor Tuesday for a full vote, and it passed 427 to 1 -- sending it to the Senate, which agreed unanimously to approve it Tuesday afternoon and send it to Trump's desk

Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie sponsored the bill with California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna ... and Massie has called on Trump to release the files himself. Remember, Trump could have immediately ordered the release of the Epstein Files at any time ... without a House or Senate vote.

"Tiger King" star Joe Exotic has retained a lawyer with ties to President Donald Trump ... and now he is hopeful for a pardon, TMZ has learned.

As you know ... Joe is currently locked up in federal prison in Texas, serving a 21-year prison sentence for a murder-for-hire plot to kill his nemesis, Carole Baskin, and for wildlife violations.

His new attorney, Peter Ticktin, went to military school with POTUS back in the day, and Joe and Peter seem confident they'll be able to work something out.

A masked man sporting a ballistic helmet walks into a Las Vegas casino with an AR-style rifle to rob the joint.

Sounds like something straight out of a Hollywood action film ... but the wild scenario actually happened last week at the Rampart Casino in Sin City -- and Vegas Police are now releasing video of the shocking stick-up.

It all went down last Thursday night when the gunman strolled onto the grounds and stepped inside the hotel through a parking garage. In addition to the helmet, the suspect, as you can see, was wearing blue sunglasses, a black facemask, and a blue and yellow security-type jacket.

Spencer Pratt is heating up his beef with California Governor Gavin Newsom amid lawsuits over wildfires ... he says "Newsom's lawyers" are either bumbling idiots or the world's biggest liars.

The reality TV star hopped on social media and blasted Newsom over a section from a recent legal filing in a lawsuit where wildfire victims are going after the State of California.

Spencer says "Newsom's lawyers" are arguing Topanga State Park in Los Angeles County did not store large quantities of highly combustible gasoline before the January fires.

D4vd is viewed as a suspect in the death of Celeste Rivas, the teenager who was found decomposing in his Tesla ... law enforcement sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ.

As far as we know, there is no paperwork classifying D4vd as a suspect, but as one of our sources told us ... "Investigators are looking at D4vd as a suspect."

We're also told they're viewing Celeste's death as a homicide, even though the Medical Examiner has yet to determine cause or manner of death -- investigators are still awaiting toxicology results.

Jeffrey Epstein's got a loose connection to Michael Jackson ... the attorney who asked Epstein in a deposition if he had an oval-shaped unit tells us he was taking a cue from a famous MJ trial.

Spencer Kuvin, the lawyer who grilled Epstein in the infamous 2009 deposition, tells TMZ ... he got the idea to question Epstein about his alleged "egg-shaped penis" from the King of Pop's kid-sex trial.

He says the prosecutor in the MJ case wanted to enter into evidence graphic photos of splotches on Michael's penis so an alleged abuse victim could identify the skin discoloration known as vitiligo. MJ had originally submitted to having the graphic photos taken during a 1994 investigation into whether the pop star molested a boy.

Neil deGrasse Tyson has some good news for comedians worried about artificial intelligence taking over their jobs ... A.I.'s not an immediate threat!

We caught up with NDT today in NYC ... according to Neil, comedians might have some of the only safe jobs left ... that is, if you're good! He judges A.I. to be a soulless entity that doesn't understand what it's saying -- a considerable hurdle to overcome if you're mining for the revelatory and surprising insights needed for impactful jokes.

He explained, "I've asked A.I. to give me some good jokes ... they were on a bad dad-joke level."