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Jay L. Clendenin/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — The biggest Powerball jackpot of the year continues to grow, with an estimated prize of $700 million after no ticket matched all winning numbers in Wednesday’s drawing. The lucky winner of Saturday’s drawing could choose between the full jackpot paid in annual installments […]

(NEW YORK) — A New York appeals court has thrown out the half billion-dollar civil fraud judgment handed down last year against President Donald Trump, his family and his company. In a 323-page opinion, all five judges in the Appellate Division’s First Department agreed that the half-billion-dollar penalty imposed on Trump should be thrown out. Two of […]

A Placer County Sheriff vehicle. George Rose/Getty Images (PLACER COUNTY, Calif.) — A missing hiker was found safe after getting lost for days in steep terrain in Northern California, according to officials. Placer County Sheriff’s Office crews searched for the hiker, whose name was not released, for days after he went missing on Monday in […]

(NEW YORK) — Search efforts for a Minnesota man who was last heard from in July have been suspended after 20 days as authorities say that his “most optimistic survival odds have run out.” Grant Gardner had planned on a three-day hike “through the Misty Moon Lake area, eventually summiting Cloud Peak,” according to a […]

Officials in three New England states are searching for Mason Payne, a 23-year-old who led Massachusetts police on a high-speed chase, dragged a state trooper and then fled into Connecticut, according to the Shelton, Connecticut, Police Department. Shelton CT Police Department (SHELTON, Conn. ) — The hunt is on for a Vermont man who led […]

(NEW YORK) — Hurricane Erin may not make landfall, but it still could have a devastating consequences for East Coast residents. The first hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season is forecast to cause rough surf, large waves and life-threatening rip currents for much of the East Coast despite churning northward several hundred miles offshore. Average […]

Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A federal judge in New York has denied the Department of Justice’s request to unseal grand jury material from Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal case. The decision on Wednesday marks the third and final time a federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request to unseal grand […]

(NEW ORLEANS) — An inmate who was mistakenly released from a New Orleans jail has been captured following a nearly monthlong manhunt, authorities announced Wednesday. Khalil Bryan, 30, was released from the Orleans Justice Center on July 25 due to a “human failure” that led to two deputies being fired, according to the Orleans Parish […]

(KERR COUNTY, Texas) — The parents of children who were among the 27 killed at Camp Mystic on Texas’ Guadalupe River during the historic Fourth of July flash flooding that devastated the Hill Country region began giving emotional testify on Wednesday before a state legislative committee probing the disaster. A coalition of Camp Mystic parents […]

Stock image of police lights. Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The husband of a missing California woman who was found dead in the Angeles National Forest has fled to Peru, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Sheylla Cabrera, 33, was reported missing on Aug. 12, according to police. During the subsequent investigation, investigators […]