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Mint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- The Manhattan district attorney's office has begun presenting evidence to a grand jury that could return a new indictment against Harvey Weinstein -- as soon as Friday -- over an alleged sexual assault that occurred sometime in a four-month time period between late 2005 and mid-2006 in a lower Manhattan residential building, according to a transcript of an unannounced court hearing this week.Prosecutors also […]

(LOS ANGELES) -- More than a year after a plea deal between prosecutors and Hunter Biden collapsed, jury selection in the federal tax trial of President Joe Biden's son is scheduled to begin this morning in a Los Angeles federal courthouse.U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi plans to seat 12 jurors and four alternates for a trial that is expected to throw Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, his struggles with addiction, […]

(NEW YORK) -- The time of year that typically sees the most tropical systems forming in the Atlantic Basin is almost here.The past three weeks in the Atlantic Basin have been notably quiet with no named storm formations since Ernesto on Aug. 12.The last time the Atlantic had no named storm formations between Aug. 13 and Sept. 3 was in 1968, Philip Klotzbach, senior research scientist at Colorado State University, […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- A 32-year-old suspect who has evaded authorities for nearly three weeks following the alleged hit-and-run death of a skateboarding 7-year-old boy has been arrested, according to authorities.Donald Mynatt, 32, has been wanted by the Cleveland Division of Police for leaving the scene of an accident that caused the death of the child. On Aug. 16, 7-year-old Amir Prewitt was riding his skateboard in a […]

(WINDER, Ga.) -- As investigators worked to determine a motive behind Wednesday's deadly school shooting in Georgia, they said they were also seeking answers about the weapon allegedly used by the 14-year-old suspect.The shooting early Wednesday at Apalachee High School in Winder killed two students and two teachers, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.Teachers Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, were killed, along with students Mason Schermerhorn, 14, […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal appeals court for a stay that would delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case, which is scheduled for Sept. 18.The longshot attempt to delay the sentencing comes one day after District Judge Alvin Hellerstein denied Trump's bid to move his criminal case to federal court.In a 28-page filing late Wednesday, Trump's attorneys asked the United […]

(WASHINGTON) -- On Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a stern warning to those who would seek to harm election officials."I will reiterate again today, these cases are a warning if you threaten to harm or kill an election worker or official or volunteer, the Justice Department will find you and we will hold you accountable," Garland said at a press event.But more than three years after the Department of […]

Flowers are laid ou as students and faculty as well as community members gather for a vigil after a shooting at Apalachee High School on September 4, 2024 in Winder, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images) (WINDER, Ga.) -- A Georgia community is in mourning after two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Apalachee High School on Wednesday morning, according to authorities.Another nine victims were taken to hospitals […]

(WINDER, Ga.) -- Two students and two teachers were killed in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, on Wednesday morning, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.Richard Aspinwall, 39, and Christina Irimie, 53, were the two teachers killed in the incident, officials said at a Wednesday night news briefing. Students Mason Schermerhorn, 14, and Christian Angulo, also 14, were also killed, officials confirmed.Another nine victims -- eight […]