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Guests at a Six Flags in Texas were in for an unexpected surprise after attendees found themselves in a man-made, fast-moving river ... which a kid fell into, only to be saved.

Check out this video making the rounds ... it shows several guests recently getting stuck on the Roaring Rapids ride at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington. As you can see, 4 rafts were jammed in a U formation before one of the flotations began to take on water.

The situation soon escalated ... as a handful of guests climbed onto a nearby platform for safety, with a young boy following suit by jumping from his raft ... but landing in the water.

Barack Obama's half sister was inadvertently tear-gassed during a deadly demonstration in Africa ... and it's all on video.

Auma Obama was being interviewed by CNN in the middle of Tuesday's protests in Nairobi, Kenya -- when all of a sudden, explosions could be heard in the background ... and she starts coughing and tearing up.

The ex-Prez's half sibling -- to whom he's related on his father's side -- says she can't see anymore because of tear gas in the air ... and CNN field reporter Larry Madowo starts coughing too as the street interview is forced to end.

Nika King says she's stoked the long-awaited third season for "Euphoria" is finally back on track ... but at this point, it's a little unclear if she's even gonna be part of the new season.

We talked to the actress after HBO honchos confirmed the hit show was back in production, and there'd be a time jump in the story ... which Nika says she's all for, considering how long it's been since Season 2 ended.

It makes sense -- especially since cast members have changed in real life ... not to mention the passing of Angus Cloud.

A gigantic blaze ravaged a Canadian bridge this week, causing the smoldering traverse to look like a scene straight out of a war movie.

The inferno erupted Thursday night and extended through Friday morning, engulfing the rail trestle bridge, which was already obsolete, but still connected Vancouver with Richmond in British Columbia, Canada.

Photos obtained by TMZ showed the up-close devastation.  Check out the footage ... as the fire was raging, thick plumes of black smoke rose up from the bridge, spreading like a mushroom cloud into the sky.

Chris Cuomo's calling out the media for obsessing over Justin Timberlake's DWI arrest ... saying it's part of our love of negativity ... in this case, taking a big star down.

Chris jumped on "TMZ Live" Friday and had a lot to say about the arrest ... not only does Chris live near the town where Timberlake got busted, he's offering JT strong support.

The NewsNation anchor tells us he knows he can't tell other media outlets what they should or shouldn't cover ... but he thinks the degree to which many have focused on JT's Monday arrest has gone way too far.

One of the cyclists who got mowed down by a car in Texas is crediting his own bike for saving his life after an alleged drunk driver ran over him -- who, BTW, has now been ID'd.

Cops say Benjamin Hylander -- an American Airlines cargo worker -- careened his car into retired physician Tom Geppert and his fellow cycling group rider Deborah Eads near Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport Monday ... and now, we know the charges he's facing.

Remember ... this was all caught in shocking viral footage -- which shows Geppert and Eads getting hit from the back ... and Geppert getting crushed by the car. Now ... TG is recounting the whole thing ... telling a local media outlet he's lucky to be alive.

A plainclothes female police officer showed some real chutzpah on the mean streets of Argentina ... she turned the tables on two motorcycle thieves and shot one of them before they could rob her!

Check out this crazy video that captured the entire violent encounter, which went down last Wednesday in Buenos Aires, according to Argentinian news outlet Carlos Paz VIVO!

The footage kicks off with the female officer dressed in regular clothes as she walks down a sidewalk.

Scooter Braun is hanging up his hat in the music management biz -- stepping away from handling A-listers' affairs personally ... and easing into a larger conglomerate as a mogul.

Hollywood's go-to manager-to-the-stars -- who's repped Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, Demi Lovato, Kanye West, J Balvin, Lil Dicky, Ozuna and many, many others -- made a big announcement Monday ... namely, he's retiring from his main gig for the last several years.

SB acknowledges he's been in the game for 23 years, and points out that it all started with him managing an artist named Cato in Atlanta ... only for him to skyrocket from there.

A Florida teenager murdered his parents execution style and shot a deputy during a police standoff before he was finally gunned down by authorities.

The violence unfolded Saturday night inside the Tampa home belonging to Christos Themelis, 51, his wife Rebecca, 48, and their 19-year-old son Christos Jr., according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Christos Jr. got his hands on a gun and fatally shot his father inside their house.

Taylor Swift fans caused yet another earthquake in the U.K. ... a regular occurrence these days.

The British Geological Survey released a new report Thursday ... confirming earthquake readings were detected around 4 miles from the singer's sold-out shows in Edinburgh, Scotland this past weekend.

Per the BGS, they were monitoring stations around Edinburgh during Taylor's shows at Murrayfield Stadium ... and they found "a similar seismographic pattern" when TS performed "Ready For It?", "Cruel Summer," and "champagne problems."

President Biden saw his German Shepherd chomp down on Secret Service on multiple occasions before the family dog got booted from the White House ... according to new docs.

Biden's pooch, Commander, got shown the door after dozens of instances where he bit agents tasked with protecting POTUS ... and these newly released documents claim Biden was present for at least 3 of those attacks.

In one previously unreported instance on Sept. 12 -- Biden was walking Commander on a leash in the Kennedy Garden on the White House's South Lawn ... when Commander ran through JB's legs and bit an approaching agent in the left arm, ripping a hole in their jacket.

A middle school coach in Michigan is out of a job and facing criminal charges after cops say he used a shirt to choke a student in the hallway ... which was apparently caught on video.

Surveillance footage from Ypsilanti Middle School purportedly shows a coach -- an adult man, mind you -- approaching a teenage student from behind as the kid walks down the hallway towards the door, before the guy wraps a rolled-up shirt around the student's neck.

It looks like the coach -- who has yet to be ID'd --  yanks back on the shirt and a struggle ensues ... all while the shirt tightens around the kid's neck. Ultimately, the teen breaks free and the man lets up as the kid walks away.

A guy in L.A. tried stopping a moving fire truck, only to be chased off by the firefighters aboard -- but this wild situation didn't end there ... it was even crazier, TMZ has learned.

This footage is making the rounds online, and for good reason ... it's absolutely nuts. A random dude in South Central late last week attempted to derail an L.A. County fire engine that we're told was en route to a car accident just up the block.

Check out the clip ... you see the man literally come out of nowhere as he runs into the street and leaps onto the giant moving vehicle -- and then, he starts reaching inside.

Henry Winkler got a rude awakening all the way across the pond -- getting rushed out of a hotel over a would-be fire ... which sounds like a plot right out of "Happy Days."

The Fonz was in Ireland this week -- where he's promoting his new memoir, 'Being Henry' -- and on Wednesday ... he found himself being shuffled out of a hotel in Dublin after a fire alarm went off, which required a pretty big response from firefighters.

Check out the photos ... you can see a bunch of uniformed first responders rushing in and making sure everything was alright -- and some of the firefighters even posed with HW!

A pool party in Compton ended in bullets flying and people running for their lives -- and TMZ has new video showing the chaos on the ground ... which ended with at least one death.

Check out this footage we obtained from a get-together on Friday in the L.A. neighborhood -- where a ton of folks were enjoying themselves and splashing around in the water, just in time for summer. Unfortunately, gunshots started to ring out when somebody opened fire.

Unclear what led up to the shooting, but the aftermath was tragic -- with at least one person left dead, and several others injured -- and now ... we can see how scared people were.

Sen. John Fetterman and his wife were involved in a car crash in Maryland this weekend, and cops say he was driving when he hit the car in front of him.

The Maryland State Police tell TMZ ... the Senator from Pennsylvania was behind the wheel of a Chevrolet Traverse traveling westbound on I-70 Sunday morning -- when he struck the rear of a Chevrolet Impala while on the road.

Cops say it's unclear what caused the crash ... and no citations were issued either, although the crash investigation remains active and ongoing, we're told.