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The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a last-minute stay and allowed Tennessee to proceed with executing Christa Pike. Pike, 50, had been scheduled to die by lethal injection at 10 a.m. CDT Wednesday at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.…
A student died Wednesday after falling from a fourth-floor building at Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles, police said. The boy’s fatal plunge was reported around 1 p.m. At the Highland Park campus, according to the Los Angeles Police…
San Francisco’s Ferry Building sat dark for three hours Wednesday morning after an unplanned Pacific Gas & Electric outage cut power to the landmark waterfront hub. The blackout began at 6:42 a.m. And stretched until 9:30 a.m., affecting roughly 455…
A newly revealed police transcript shows the Cornell student who accused seven fraternity brothers of sexual assault told campus investigators she could say “with 100% confidence I was raped,” undercutting the district attorney’s explanation for why no criminal charges were…
A 72-year-old man has been arrested in the hit-and-run death of former Nickelodeon actress Kianna Underwood. Michael Griffiths was taken into custody in Brooklyn on Tuesday and charged with two counts of leaving the scene of an accident, according to…
A pod of killer whales drew stunned reactions from passengers on a Newport Beach whale-watching cruise this week. The group aboard a Newport Landing Whale Watching trip spotted 10 to 13 orcas swimming alongside their boat on Monday in waters…
Yaniv Hayun has spoken publicly about the moment he stormed the cockpit of a plunging Boeing 737 and placed a knife-wielding co-pilot in a chokehold. The Israeli passenger, whose actions helped save 174 lives aboard flydubai flight FZ1073, recounted the…
A top-hatted assailant remained at large Wednesday evening after stabbing three men during a predawn confrontation over food at a busy Lower East Side intersection. The NYPD released a photo of the suspected attacker, last seen wearing a black stovepipe…
The outlet analysis published Thursday found that only 13 percent of investigated sexual misconduct claims at Cornell University end with the accused student or staffer expelled or dismissed. The data review examined more than 1,200 allegations of sexual assault, domestic…
Anne Hathaway turned her baby bump into the centerpiece of another talk-show appearance Wednesday. The pregnant actress, 43, arrived at “The Drew Barrymore Show” in New York wearing a semi-sheer top with long swaths of fabric draped on either side,…
Desperate younger Americans are leaning on artificial intelligence and online betting as lifelines against mounting debt, a new survey has found. The poll, conducted by National Debt Relief and Wakefield Research among 2,000 US adults over 18, reveals stark generational…
A slain the outlet tech executive attempted suicide twice during a turbulent stretch of his relationship with the woman who would become his wife, according to court records. Jonathan McKinsey, who was transitioning from female to male and formerly went…
President Trump is mailing $500 checks to nearly a million Americans with Obamacare coverage. About 950,000 enrollees across 30 states will receive the payments as early as this week, according to a White House official who spoke. The checks are…
Childless adults have overtaken parents as the biggest toy buyers of 2026. Jeremy Padawer, president of toymaker Jazwares, told the industry last week that adult collectors now dominate the market. “Today, the adult collector dominates the market. … Thats going…
Christy Carlson Romano has publicly accused former boyfriend Shawn Ashmore of ghosting her because his team decided she lacked sufficient fame. Romano, 42, made the claim Wednesday in an Instagram post that quickly drew attention from fans of the Disney-era…
A German tourist was shot in the arm during a broad-daylight gunfight in Downtown Los Angeles while returning a luxury rental car. The visitor, whose name has not been released, had been driving a green-and-black McLaren when the shooting erupted…