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A University of Florida pre-med student allegedly stabbed his mom over 70 times with a knife all because he didn't like her – and the moments before the savage murder were captured on video.

Check out this Ring camera footage ... Emmanuel Espinoza was seen casually walking up to the front door of the Polk County home, where his mom, Elvia Espinoza, resided.

Espinoza first tried to open the door, but it was locked, so he knocked on it. Notice the sharp knife gripped in his hand behind his back.

Ricky Martin embraced la vida loca at Madonna's concert this weekend -- and he seemed to be a happy camper too during one part of the show ... pitching a tent in his pants.

The singer got swept up in Madge's "Vogue" segment during her Miami "Celebration" tour stop Sunday, where Ricky was the featured celeb guest and judging the dancers next to the main talent ... and at one point during the sexy dance, Ricky appears to have gotten aroused.

The reason we believe that to be the case -- Ricky looked erect while seated, and even when he stood up ... the guy seemed to be saluting from the waist below.

Billy Dee Williams made his stance on actors in blackface clear ... saying he's all good with it, 'cause acting is acting -- and an actor should be able to do what they want in their craft.

The 'Star Wars' alum dished his thoughts on this during Sunday's episode of "Club Random" with Bill Maher -- this as he praised Laurence Olivier's performance in 1965's "Othello" ... in which the late star, who was white, wore blackface to play the titular lead.

Billy said Olivier's performance left him laughing out loud, because LO was lambasting stereotypes associated with Black folks -- and he says he found it humorous as opposed to offensive.

Susan Miller can usually talk all things stars at a moment's notice -- which is why we thought she'd be great to discuss the solar eclipse ... if it wasn't for these damn kids!

We say that in jest, of course -- but you gotta get a load of this interview we did with the famed astrologer Monday in NYC ... just as the eclipse was set to go down, as tons of people congregated in a local park there to catch the rare phenomenon.

Of course, with parks and playgrounds comes children too ... and the place here was crawling with them as we conducted our sit-down with SM. Let's just say ... it's entertaining.

Hollywood is being outshone by the 2024 Solar Eclipse ... and they don't seem to care one bit, as several stars rocked safety glasses to experience the rare celestial occurrence.

Patrick Mahomes and daughter Sterling Skye threw on a pair of solar eclipse shades on Monday ... although his 16-month-old son, Bronze, didn't seem too interested in participating.

Nina Dobrev enjoyed the eclipse with friends, admitting on social media she took a quick peek at the sun without glasses.

11:34 AM PT -- The eclipse is making its way across North America -- and the people of Mexico were absolutely stoked when things went dark ... just check out this video with their reaction.

People could be heard (and barely seen) cheering on the moment the moon perfectly covered the sun. There'll surely be lots of other reactions just like this throughout the U.S.

The eclipse is happening ... the first images of the 2024 eclipse are coming in from Mexico, as totality inches close to the U.S. of A.

Internet sleuths are coming to the aid of a Massachusetts woman named Ashley McGuire, who is desperately trying to locate her husband after he allegedly ghosted her while she was pregnant.

In a now-viral Facebook message, Ashley alleges her husband, Charlie, walked out on her while she was pregnant last year with their youngest child ... claiming he moved out of state and changed his number.

Ashley says she's trying to divorce Charlie, and when she couldn't find him, she tried her hand at some internet crowd-sourcing to try to nail him down.

A poor, unsuspecting woman becoming the target of a ruthless carjacking in the Bay Area -- the footage of which is just now surfacing ... all heard in terrifying dashcam footage.

Check out the clip ... you can hear Caroline, a resident of Vallejo, CA letting out shrieks of terror and telling the suspects to leave her alone after they smashed the glass of her passenger car window earlier this month.

You can hear a bit of a back-and-forth scuffle ... which law enforcement sources tell TMZ was a result of Caroline fiercely gripping onto her purse as the suspects tried to unsuccessfully make off with it.

A United Airlines passenger was rattled after she watched a window get replaced on her flight moments before taking off ... by none other than what appears to be one of the pilots.

The passenger -- a self-described toddler expert named Kristin -- documented the experience on her IG Story Sunday ... filming what appeared to be the flight's pilot fixing the interior side of one window, this before her plane from Denver to Dallas was due to hit the sky.

She wrote ... "They are literally replacing a window with all of us just chilling and sitting here waiting to take off?!?!?!"

A music festival in Texas that was entirely dedicated to the solar eclipse is now getting scrapped entirely -- and the reason is a little freaky ... an omen, even, perhaps.

The event is called Texas Eclipse 2024 ... a 5-day get-together in Burnet, TX -- which seems to be very much in the vein of Burning Man ... which you can sense from all their marketing and promotional material, not to mention all the pics and vids they have up on socials.

All was well for these past few days ... however, on Monday, the festival organizers broke some startling news -- namely, their whole event was just canceled over crappy weather.

A truck in Los Angeles smashed full-tilt into an ambulance Sunday ... and the emergency vehicle held two patients when the crash happened.

Check out the video obtained by TMZ ... traffic's totally stopped down at this Culver City intersection with the ambulance slowly approaching -- when the silver truck comes streaking out of nowhere.

It runs smack into the ambulance's side, rocking the vehicle a bit ... though it's strong enough to survive the big hit.

Oliver Stark's not taking homophobic comments from "9-1-1" fans ... straight up saying they've totally missed the show's point.

The actor -- who's played Evan 'Buck' Buckley since the show premiered back in 2018 -- took to Instagram Saturday to thank many fans for supporting his character's recent storyline ... before addressing the trolls head-on.

Stark says he doesn't care if Buck's sexuality ruined the show for some fans ... adding the show's always featured inclusive stories and characters, so it shouldn't be a dealbreaker for fans.

A Boeing 737 had to quickly brake when the plane's engine looked like it was starting to fall apart ... and the whole ordeal was caught on video.

The Southwest Airlines flight, heading from Denver to Houston, took off Sunday morning ... when some of the passengers noticed a piece of metal ripped off the side of the plane and flapped around as the plane began its takeoff.

Check out the video ... the engine cowling covering the sides of the giant turbine flies up, seemingly only held together by a few strands of stray metal -- at first, not slowing down the jet one bit.

Morgan Wallen fans whipped into a frenzy after he cracked a joke at his concert ... with America's sweetheart Taylor Swift the focus of their outrage.

The country singer-songwriter performed at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis this week ... where he claims he set the attendance record for the building on back-to-back nights, the first person to ever do so.

After giving his thanks to the crowd, MW decides to crack a joke ... saying he'd keep hold of the record until Swift eventually came to the stadium in the fall.

The Rock cooked up some beef during the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony, but it wasn't with a fellow wrestler ... instead, he got into it with a WWE fan.

Dwayne Johnson attended Friday night's ceremony in Philadelphia to pay tribute to his late grandmother Lia Maivia -- a wrestling promoter -- who earned a spot in the WWE HOF.

While walking off a platform, a fan appears to yell something at DJ ... who stops on a dime and walks over to the barricade for a convo.

Marjorie Taylor Greene's looking to the heavens for an omen ... and, it seems she's finding them in every natural phenomenon.

The Georgia congresswomen tweeted out a warning to her fellow Americans Friday after an earthquake rocked the Northeast -- specifically New Jersey and New York. And let's not forget what happened in Taiwan ... of course, a solar eclipse is happening Monday too.

In her tweet, MTG says God's sending signals to the United States demanding repentance ... and claiming both the earthquake and next week's solar eclipse are signs from above.