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President Trump just threw Jeanine Pirro under the bus ... saying she folded like a cheap suit when her office dropped the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool vandalism case against former Olympian David Hearn.

Trump tore into the U.S. Attorney on Monday ... arguing Hearn and others deliberately cut the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool's waterproof liner ... despite Pirro saying on Friday that faulty installation was actually to blame.

POTUS blamed a hostile judge for the case unraveling ... but said Pirro ultimately buckled under the pressure -- "Frankly, I think she choked."

TMZ has obtained the United Cajun Navy's full investigative report into Nolan Wells' death ... and it includes a new photo of the three boats his friends anchored off Mississippi's Horn Island on the day Nolan disappeared.

Check it out ... the photo on page 12 of the report shows the three boats anchored side-by-side -- noted as "Boat #3," the Palm Beach and the Triton -- on the Fourth of July.

The Triton is the boat that took on water before leaving the island without Nolan.

As we previously reported, Nolan's best friend, Warren Hudson, claimed he and other friends begged him to board their vessel to leave the island around 4:30 PM ... but he refused.

The United Cajun Navy's report says the Triton left the island at 4:31 PM.

Nolan Wells' friends want to lawyer up after they say they've been "wrongly blamed" for his death ... and have raised close to their fundraising goal to do just that.

Benjamin Hudson -- dad of Nolan's so-called best friend Warren -- launched a fundraiser on GiveSendGo to cover legal costs of the friends he says have been "targeted" since the teen's mysterious death ... and it's already raised close to their $100K goal.

According to the fundraiser, Warren and Nolan's other friends Jax Pitalo and Morgan Seymour have been facing an onslaught of threats and allegedly defamatory remarks.

Frightening moment at Yellowstone National Park ... a child was walking near a bison when the massive animal charged at him and gave chase ... and it's all on video.

New footage captures the moment a grazing bison turns towards a family and runs after a young boy who gets way too close ... and the kid literally runs for his life.

As you can see, the bison is pretty close to a boardwalk when a group of people try to walk by ... and it doesn't take long for all hell to break loose.

A survivor of the Oct. 7 music festival attack in Israel was found dead at his girlfriend's grave ... nearly three years after she was murdered by Hamas.

Bar Asraf reportedly died by suicide Saturday at a cemetery in the West Bank settlement of Elkana, according to Israeli news site JFeed. His girlfriend, Liron Barda, was among the hundreds killed during the October 2023 Nova music festival massacre.

Barda was working as a bartender at the festival when Hamas terrorists stormed the event ... and she stayed behind to help wounded festivalgoers before she was killed.

2 people have died in the cyclosporiasis outbreak, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

The MDHHS updated their case numbers Monday, listing that there have been 2 deaths since the infectious disease spread through the state.

The victims weren't identified, but the announcement noted that their medical records showed "significant underlying health conditions that may have been impacted by cyclosporiasis and dehydration."

Michelle Hadley -- Ian Diaz's ex from Netflix's "A Toxic Love Story" -- wrote an emotional letter begging for her ex to serve hard time ahead of his sentencing, TMZ has learned. 

TMZ obtained the letter Michelle sent to the judge to consider before determining how many years Ian would be in prison. 

Ian and his then-wife Angela Diaz were accused of conspiring together to ruin Michelle’s life. The then-couple posted ads on Craigslist with Michelle’s address asking for a man to help her with her “rape fantasy” … in hopes she would be sexually assaulted. 

An Ohio woman allegedly unleashed a barrage of bomb threats against Mississippi government offices following Nolan Wells' death ... placing nearly 30 menacing calls in less than an hour, according to federal prosecutors.

Michelle Francine Edwards was charged Thursday with transmitting a threatening communication across state lines after she allegedly targeted the George County Chancery Clerk's Office and Jackson County Sheriff's Office.

Investigators say on July 23, Edwards called the clerk's office 21 times in just eight minutes using a blocked number ... allegedly warning employees, "Do not go outside," "the clock is ticking," and "die."

There was high drama Sunday at NYC's famed Brooklyn Bridge, where a naked man jumped from the top of the span and plunged into the East River -- and survived!

And get this ... the insane incident was all caught on dramatic video shot by stunned onlookers, who posted the footage to social media.

NYPD sources tell TMZ ... the 44-year-old man climbed up to the top of the north tower before removing all of his clothes. We're told he was carrying a Kazakhstan flag, which he affixed to the bridge.

Phony toxicology reports in the Nolan Wells case are spreading across social media ... and people connected to the case are warning everyone not to fall for them.

Russell Latino -- who represents Nolan's friend Bart Edminson Jr. -- sounded the alarm on Facebook ... saying officials have not publicly released Nolan's toxicology results and some of the fakes circulating online look extremely real if you don't know what to watch for.

He ripped the broader disinformation surrounding Nolan's death ... saying it undermines the actual investigation and adding ... "Someone's death should not be your entertainment. Touch grass today."

Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell backed him up in a separate Facebook post ... confirming the purported reports making the rounds are fraudulent.

A pistol-packing bystander turn into a hero during the Idaho In-N-Out mass shooting, blasting away at the suspect as the deadly violence unfolded on video.

The Idaho Stateman reports that Jordan Salinas drove to the In-N-Out restaurant in Twin Falls for lunch with his girlfriend on Saturday afternoon when, all of a sudden, bullets started whizzing through the air. 

Police say 24-year-old Chad Williams opened fire at the diners with what appeared to be a large rifle, killing three people and injuring seven others.

Officials have identified the suspect in the mass shooting which occurred at an Idaho In-N-Out Burger as 24-year-old Chad Williams, leaving at least three people dead and seven injured.

Authorities revealed his identity during a press conference Sunday and confirm he is deceased from a self-inflicting gunshot wound. According to officials, investigators are continuing to look into the incident timeline, process evidence, and conduct interviews.

As we previously reported ... the mayhem began Saturday afternoon at the burger joint in Twin Falls -- a city in southern Idaho -- where the gunman opened fire, officials said.

A newly surfaced video from Horn Island on July 4 may provide a potential clue in the search for Nolan Wells, with footage appearing to show the boat he was allegedly last seen on.

At the end of this clip, the "Mac Daddy" boat is clearly seen -- and appears to match the footage obtained by TMZ from the same day ... which could be the final sighting of Nolan before his disappearance.

The clip was posted by a person who said they captured the footage on July 4th at 11:17 AM, before the area became crowded. In our video, Metadata shows the video was recorded at 2:23 PM ... making this sighting way earlier in the day.

The Green Beret accused of using classified intel to cash in on the U.S. capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is now betting a federal judge will toss the entire case.

Gannon Ken Van Dyke filed a motion Friday asking the judge to dismiss five charges accusing him of illegally using and stealing secret government information, defrauding the commodities market, committing wire fraud and moving money from the alleged scheme.

According to the filing, obtained by TMZ, Van Dyke's team of attorneys, including Mark Geragos, call the prosecution a first-of-its-kind "experiment" that twists federal commodities law to create a crime that didn't exist.

8/2/2026 2:28 PM PST -- A spokesperson for CNN tells TMZ ... Dana Bash is a veteran journalist who conducted a newsmaking interview with Secretary Kennedy in which he stated that he supports parents getting their children vaccinated against measles and addressed President Trump’s push for further study into autism and vaccines. Asking tough, substantive questions to those in power is the job of every journalist, and Dana did hers incredibly well today. We stand behind Dana, her reporting, and CNN’s overall coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dana Bash turned CNN’s "State of the Union" into a heated debate Sunday, with the HHS secretary and the anchor clashing over COVID, vaccines, public health, and autism research.

Watch the clip, as things got tense when Bash pressed Kennedy about his criticism of Dr. Anthony Fauci and asked how he would handle a future pandemic. RFK Jr. said protecting constitutional rights would be his top priority ... arguing that one of the mistakes made during COVID was “suppressing” those rights.

Bash pushed back, saying she was asking about a public health crisis -- not a constitutional rights debate -- that’s when Kennedy fired back saying “Because you were part of the problem.”

Sen. Bernie Moreno is done biting his tongue over former son-in-law Rep. Max Miller ... publicly branding the Ohio congressman "a danger" to his daughter and calling for him to leave office.

Moreno broke his silence Sunday after Miller accused his ex-wife, Emily Moreno, of struggling with "significant mental health challenges" during a video defending himself against allegations of abuse, which he denies.

Miller said Emily's alleged struggles contributed to accusations he "firmly disputes" ... insisting he raised the issue not to embarrass her, but out of concern for the former couple's young daughter.