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MediaPunch/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (NEW YORK) -- The jury in the Daniel Penny trial will begin deliberations over whether he committed criminally negligent homicide when he placed Jordan Neely in a chokehold on a subway car last year, after the jury was deadlocked on the more serious charge of manslaughter last week.At the request of prosecutors on Friday, Judge Maxwell Wiley dismissed the second-degree manslaughter charge – which carried a maximum 15-year sentence – and directed […]

ABC News (LOS ANGELES) -- Extreme fire danger is set to threaten Southern California early this week.The National Weather Service in Los Angeles issued a rare "particularly dangerous situation" red flag warning from Monday night through Wednesday morning. The worst conditions for Los Angeles and Ventura counties will be Monday night through Tuesday."Use extra caution with any source of flame," the National Weather Service advised.Wind gusts are forecast to climb to 60 […]

AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images via Getty Images (TIJUANA, MEXICO) -- A 31-year-old man was arrested for allegedly trying to hijack a Mexican domestic commercial flight and reroute the aircraft to the U.S. Sunday morning, according to Mexican authorities and the airline, Volaris.At some point after the flight took off this morning from León traveling to Tijuana, the Mexican man -- identified by authorities only as Mario N -- attacked a flight attendant […]

(NEW YORK) -- Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter and Sean "Diddy" Combs are accused of raping a 13-year-old girl at an after-party following the 2000 Video Music Awards, according to an amended civil lawsuit filed Sunday."Another celebrity stood by and watched as Combs and Carter took turns assaulting the minor," the lawsuit said without naming the celebrity.In a statement posted to the Roc Nation X account on Sunday, Jay-Z denied the allegations […]

(NEW YORK) -- A man's masked face caught peering at a camera from the back of a taxi. Monopoly money in a backpack ditched in Central Park. And bullet casings with words scrawled on them.Those are just a few of the details that the New York Police Department has released to the public in the five days since a masked gunman fatally shot the chief executive of a health insurance […]

Chesnot/Getty Images (PARIS) -- In a rare moment of unity, world leaders convened on Saturday to attend the ceremonial reopening of the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in France.Five years after flames engulfed the historic site in the center of Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed “gratitude” to those who saved, helped and rebuilt Notre Dame.The ceremony was attended by 1,500 dignitaries, including first lady Jill Biden, President-elect Donald Trump, Prince […]

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WESTFORD, Mass.) -- A Democratic member of Congress has become the latest victim of increased threats against federal lawmakers in the last two weeks.Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts said Saturday that her family and home received a bomb threat. No one was harmed and the Westford Police Department, U.S. Capitol Police and the Massachusetts State Police are all investigating the threat, she said."It’s a good time to […]

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) -- A federal judge paused the child sexual abuse case involving President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary pick Linda McMahon, her husband Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).The Maryland lawsuit, filed in October by five John Does who worked as the ringside crew when they were teens, alleges WWE co-founders Linda and Vince McMahon turned a blind eye to years of sexual abuse of the […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images/STOCK (NEWARK, N.J.) -- Six people who were traveling in a vehicle in Newark, New Jersey, were killed after the car crashed off an elevated roadway Friday night, the authorities said.The incident took place around 10:47 p.m. at the intersection of Raymond Boulevard and Blanchard Street, where the vehicle was traveling on a southbound on-ramp, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's office."While on the ramp, the vehicle somehow […]