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Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Vandalia, Ohio, March 16, 2024. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump are pushing back against a recent restriction on filings in his New York hush money case and asked the court […]

(NEW YORK) — Daniel Penny, the man who choked a homeless man to death last May on a New York City subway car, will stand trial beginning Oct. 8, a judge determined Wednesday. The trial will take between four and six weeks, according to Judge Max Wiley. Penny has pleaded not guilty to the charges […]

(NEW YORK) — Seven months after deadly wildfires ripped through Maui, state investigators are finalizing a comprehensive investigative report that is now set to be released on April 17, 2024, after a two-month delay. While several local agencies are reviewing the cause of the fires and the response, the Fire Safety Research Institute was commissioned […]

(NEW YORK) — More than 1,200 of the nation’s public safety personnel died by suicide over a seven-year period, according to a report released by a nonprofit organization that tracks law enforcement suicides. From 2016 to 2022, there were 1,287 public safety personnel — identified in the report as law enforcement and corrections officers — […]

The United States has fallen eight spots and is no longer in the top 20 happiest countries in the world, falling behind countries like Canada, Israel, Kuwait, Lithuania and the United Arab Emirates, according to the 2024 World Happiness Report released by Gallup and its partners. The new report, which was released on Wednesday, shows […]

(NEW YORK) — Five separate alleged human smuggling attempts at a single port of entry into the U.S. have been intercepted in less than 48 hours, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office. The five separate attempts occurred over the weekend starting Friday morning and carrying through until Sunday when officials from the […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Mega Millions jackpot is expected to climb to $977 Million for Friday’s drawing, after no single ticket won the jackpot on Tuesday, the lottery said. Winning numbers were drawn Tuesday evening for the Mega Millions $893 million jackpot. The winning numbers were 24, 46, 49, 62, 66 and […]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to $893 million ahead of Tuesday night’s drawing. The jackpot prize has a cash value of $421.4 million, which can be offered as a one-time lump sum payment, or an immediate payment followed by 29 annual payments. The total of $893 million is […]

(WASHINGTON) — A lawyer representing Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne in a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems was arrested after a status hearing in Washington, D.C., where she acknowledged in court disseminating confidential documents from the voting machine company to law enforcement. A judge in Michigan, where Stefanie Lambert is also facing criminal charges […]

(NEW YORK) — Former Rankin County, Mississippi, sheriff’s deputies Hunter Elward and Jeffrey Middleton were sentenced in federal court on Tuesday after pleading guilty, along with five additional former law enforcement officers, to a total of 16 charges related to the January 2023 torture of two Black men. Elward, who pleaded guilty to the most […]