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The Bank of America vice president fatally stabbed in Times Square was a new mother on her first week back from maternity leave, according to a report.
​Erin Piacenti, 32, was one of two people randomly attacked a short distance from her firm’s tower block in New York City Monday afternoon.
She had stopped in front of a vendor selling sunglasses while heading home from work she was stabbed, The New York Times reported. NYPD officers shot and killed the attacker, later named as 49 year-old Pamela Cisneros of Queens.
Just days before the fatal incident, Piacenti had posted a picture on social media holding her newborn daughter and grinning, according to The Times.
open image in gallery​Erin Piacenti, 32-year-old executive at Bank of America, was fatally stabbed in Times Square on Monday (Facebook)​“As my maternity leave comes to an end,” she wrote, “I could not be more grateful for every day of the last five months spent with this amazing little girl.”
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Water rescues are underway in southern Texas as former Tropical Storm Edouard continued to dump heavy rain, flooding streets and trapping people in their homes.
An unidentified woman and her four children were rescued from their Livingston mobile home after a creek overflowed, according to Click 2 Houston.
And people in the area were pulled from their cars stuck in flooded roads, KTRE said.
A flash flood emergency has been declared in Hardin and Tyler Counties, northeast of Houston, with rain expected to continue throughout the day and into tomorrow.
The storm has dropped 30 inches over Texas in the course of just 24 hours, WFLA meteorologist Jeff Berardelli wrote on social media.
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Germany has blamed Russia for an attempted explosive drone attack targeted at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month.
The device was discovered near an aircraft from Ukraine on the evening of 4 August and defused.
German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt stated that the event corresponds with a known pattern of “Russian hybrid operations.”
He said the German government “comes to the conclusion that Russia is responsible for the hybrid attack in Leipzig on 4 August.
“We assume that Germany is the target of further hybrid attacks by ‌Russia,” he added.
Germany’s foreign minister, Johann Wadephu, has ordered a series of measures in response, including the closure of the Russian consulate in Bonn along with the Russian House, a cultural centre in Berlin.
Nato secretary general Mark Rutte said “the evidence was clear” and he welcomed the measures after speaking with German chancellor Friedrich Merz.
He wrote on X: “Nato will continue to strengthen our ability to deter and defend all Allies a..

FBI Director Kash Patel has made it easier for people who've previously engaged in prostitution or bestiality to join the bureau's ranks – a change that one former agent called “beyond disturbing.”
The FBI quietly amended its hiring practices earlier this year and will consider applicants for special agent positions and other bureau roles even if they have paid for sex three times or fewer in the last decade, according to a CBS News report last week.
The rules also do not rule out an applicant if they engaged in bestiality, so long as it happened before they turned 18, according to the report.
Before the change, an FBI applicant who engaged in prostitution or bestiality would have been automatically disqualified, according to Daniel Meyer, a Washington lawyer who specializes in background checks and the security-clearance process.
He told Scripps News that admitting to buying sex during a polygraph was typically a “death knell” for an FBI applicant.
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