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Police Capture Man Climbing Trump Tower After Hours-Long Standoff

Cops have captured a man who tried to scale the side of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this afternoon after an hours-long standoff.

Responding officers yanked the man into the building around 6:35 p.m. after knocking out a full window pane on the 21st floor.


Police and the fire department responded to the scene and could be seen removing vents and breaking holes in windows of the building. Rescuers also deployed airbags in case the climber were to fall.

The man appeared to change his path at one point, shimmying sideways to avoid holes that police sawed into ventilation grates, where officers were leaning out. At one point he appeared to be talking to officers through a hole that cops had punched through a window.

NYPD Emergency Services officers had been trying to “safely isolate” the climber while talking to him, an NYPD official said, by making it difficult for him to continue climbing.


Cops had been actively negotiating but were reluctant to do anything that could cause him to fall, the official said.

The source said there’s no reason the Secret Service will become involved because there is no apparent intent to harm Trump.

Police did not suspect the climber had a weapon, the NYPD official said.

"This is clearly a stunt guy," the official said. “The guy doesn’t appear to be here to do anything evil.”

As the scene unfolded, a crowd formed below on Madison Avenue. Some people cheered the man and whistled. When the climber slipped, gasps could be heard.

One onlooker was concerned the climber would slide down the side of the building if it rains.

"I thought it was a movie shoot at first," another witness said



It was unclear why the man scaled the building.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is more than 500 miles away from New York City. He held a rally in Abingdon, Virginia, this afternoon.

Trump's campaign has not commented on the climber but Trump Organization EVP Michael Cohen said in a statement: "This man performed a ridiculous and dangerous stunt. There’s damage to the building and he caused the unnecessary deployment of New York’s finest to protect his safety and the safety of everyone in the building.

"He’s caused the shutdown of traffic on Fifth Avenue. I’m 100 percent certain the NYPD had better things to do. If Mr. Trump were here he’d be thanking law enforcement for the job they’re doing."

Donald Trump Calls President Obama the 'Founder of ISIS' at Florida Rally

Donald Trump is continuing his controversial comments.

During a Wednesday rally in Florida, Trump accused president Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton of co-founding ISIS, ABC News reports.

"ISIS is honoring president Obama," Trump said. "He is the founder of ISIS. He founded ISIS. And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton."

According to the network, rally-goers responded to the accusations with chants of "Lock her up!"




The Republican presidential nominee continued, criticizing the commander in chief for the way he's described terrorist attacks in the past, saying that President Obama "refuses to use the term radical Islamic terrorism."

"And Hillary won't say it either," he added. "She doesn't wanna say it, cause she doesn't wanna offend the president, because then bad things could happen to her if she offends the president. But, we have a real problem with radical Islamic terror. It's what it is. It's terror."


Wednesday's comments follow right behind Trump's suggestions about Hillary Clinton on Tuesday.

At a Wilmington, North Carolina rally, the billionaire businessman accused Clinton of wanting to "abolish the Second Amendment," before seemingly insinuating that gun-owners take action against her.

"If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks," Trump said to the crowd. "Although the Second Amendment people – maybe there is, I don't know."

According to CNN, US Secret Service had had "more than one conversation" with Trump about the incident and Clinton responded to the comments on Wednesday at her Iowa rally.

"Word matter my friends, and if you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences," she said. "Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that cross the line.

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Teary Michael Phelps Collects 20th Gold as Baby Boomer Cheers Him On

It was a Rio rematch.

On Tuesday night, Michael Phelps competed against South African rival Chad le Clos in his signature race: the men's 200-meter butterfly.

Phelps had lost the same race by 5/100ths of a second in the 2012 Olympics in London – a loss that has always bothered him.

But Phelps redeemed himself in a big way, winning his 20th gold medal with a time of 1.56.36, 4/100ths of a second in front of the second-place finisher Masato Sakai of Japan. Le Clos came in fourth.




The crowd went wild after his victory, shouting "20! 20! 20!" after also shouting his name in support before the race began.


Spectators inside the arena included infant son Boomer and other family members, as well as prominent members of Team USA's basketball team.

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Boomer Phelps at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium Tuesday
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Phelps savored his victory in the pool, wagging his finger in a gesture resembling the one Lilly King flashed the night before after her gold medal swim, and waving his arms as he encouraged the deafening cheers of the crowd.

Later, Phelps had tears in his eyes as the National Anthem played during the medal ceremony. After the song concluded, Phelps found his family in the audience, sweetly giving Boomer a quick kiss and cuddle after fiancée Nicole Johnson passed him over a railing.

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"There was so much emotion and so much build-up for that race over the past four years," he told NBC after his victory. "I don't want to say revenge, but that's kind of what it was. I wanted that race back."

Even before the race, the 2016 Olympics had already proven successful for Phelps. With Boomer and Johnson cheering him on from the stands, the 31-year-old swimming icon earned his 19th gold medal – and 23rd overall – in Sunday's 4x100-meter freestyle relay. (Before Tuesday's race, he also had 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.)

I am proud to stand with her today”: Bernie Sanders makes it official, finally endorses Hillary Clinton

More than a month after securing enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton finally received the biggest endorsement of this cycle. “Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process and I congratulate her for that,” Bernie Sanders declared on Tuesday, standing besides his beaming former rival. “I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton.”

While not quite as symbolic as her first joint appearance with one-time rival Barack Obama in Unity, New Hampshire, after the 2008 Democratic primary, Clinton finally saw her long-awaited unification with Sanders in the Granite State Tuesday. The endorsement comes two weeks before the start of the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. “I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States,” Sanders told a cheering crowd at a joint rally of both Clinton and Sanders supporters in Portsmouth. Sanders, the Independent senator from neighboring Vermont, defeated Clinton by a wide margin in New Hampshire, the nation’s first primary. While many of Trump’s primary challengers have yet to endorse him, Clinton has enjoyed the support of Democratic heavyweights like President Obama, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden on the campaign trail. Her surprisingly competitive upstart challenger, however, has been reluctant to publicly push her campaign until today. “Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here today,” he boomed. “Together we have begun a political revolution to transform America, and that revolution continues.” “Hillary Clinton believes that we must substantially lower student debt, and that we must make public colleges and universities tuition free for the middle class and working families of this country,” he assured his hesitant supporters, lauding his campaign’s achievements pushing Clinton to the left. “I am happy to tell you that…we produced by far the most Progressive platform [in history].” “I learned that this campaign is not about Clinton, Trump, or Sanders…[it’s] about the needs of the American people,” he continued. “This is about moving the U.S. towards universal health care.”

Christie Brinkley and John Mellencamp Split After a Year of Dating as Rep Says 'They Vow to Remain Best Friends

Supermodel Christie Brinkley and singer John Mellencamp have split after a year of dating, a rep for the pair tells PEOPLE exclusively.

"Both the mileage between their homes and their heavy career demands interfered with their ability to maintain the relationship," a rep for both Brinkley and Mellencamp tells PEOPLE. "They vowed to remain best of friends."

Brinkley, 62, has been busy promoting her new line of Prosecco, Bellissima, this summer. Mellencamp, 64, has been touring this spring and was set to resume his American tour this summer.

In June, Brinkley spoke at length about her attraction to Mellencamp, saying she initially didn't think they were a match when they first met at a Hamptons party in 2015.





"I thought, 'Oh my gosh, we're really opposites. He's kind of a throwback from another time, like a silent cowboy,' " she told PEOPLE. "But then we talked and realized that we do have a lot of shared interests."

But Brinkley said the two had bonded over their kids (she has three; Mellencamp has five, plus six grandkids) as well as their age.

"I know guys that go out with girls that are so, so young. They'll throw some reference out, and they're like, 'What's that?' " Brinkley said.

"When it comes to relationships, there is something nice about just being the same age."

When asked if she thought the two might wed, Brinkley said they were keeping it light.