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Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg via Getty Images (CINCINNATI) — A bystander was shot as a suspect and police exchanged gunfire at a Kroger grocery store just outside of Cincinnati, on Wednesday, police said. Authorities were dispatched to the Kroger on Springdale Road just before 4 p.m. ET following a report of “shots fired,” according to the Colerain […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been tried on criminal charges. Trump last […]

In this July 9, 2003, file photo, Scott Peterson listens during a pretrial hearing in Stanislaus Superior Court, in Modesto, Calif. (Al Golub-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A California judge largely denied a motion by Scott Peterson’s defense team for new or additional DNA testing in his case, as the Los Angeles Innocence Project seeks […]

U.S. Marshalls (DIALBLO, C.A.) — A convicted rapist dubbed the “Bad Breath Rapist” has been caught more than 16 years after he fled Massachusetts, according to authorities. Tuen Lee — who was arrested in Northern California on Tuesday — broke into a co-worker’s house and raped her on Feb. 2, 2005, according to the Massachusetts […]

Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe/Getty Images (CAMBRIDGE, M.A.) — Harvard University announced that it will no longer be speaking out on political or social issues that don’t impact the institution’s “core function,” after months of unrest on college campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war. The move follows guidance and recommendations from the Institutional Voice Working Group, which […]

J. Conrad Williams Jr./Newsday RM/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The upcoming Cricket World Cup in Nassau County, New York, along with associated events in New York City, could be viewed by extremists as “an attractive opportunity to perpetrate acts of violence or disruption,” according to a new assessment by the NYPD Intel Bureau. “Recent pro-ISIS […]

Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a lengthy jury instruction, Judge Juan Merchan asked jurors to treat the former president as “another member of the community” as they embark to determine Donald Trump’s fate in his hush money criminal trial. “It is not my responsibility to judge the evidence here. It is yours,” Merchan […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is rejecting Democrats’ calls for his recusal from cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and the 2020 election after flags flown at his personal residences sparked controversy. Alito provided further details of the incidents as he responded to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick […]

Courtesy of Sterling family (LANSING, M.I.) — The Michigan Department of Attorney General filed charges on Tuesday against an officer who struck and killed a Black man with an unmarked police vehicle. Michigan state police trooper Detective Sgt. Brian Keely is facing second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter charges – crimes punishable by life or 15 […]