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Joe Raedle/Getty Image(ATLANTA) -- Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, in a court filing Friday, is requesting a start date of Aug. 5, 2024, for the trial of former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case. Willis had originally sought to have all 19 defendants in the case stand trial together last month, but Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee severed the case, calling the move "a procedural and logistical inevitability." In Fridays ...

Abbott Elementary - ABC/Gilles MingassonABC has announced its 2024 midseason premiere dates, kicking off Monday, January 22, at 8 p.m. ET, when The Bachelor premieres, followed by an all-new eight-episode true-crime series of ABC News 20/20. On Wednesday, February 7, The Conners and Not Dead Yet return, starting at 8 p.m. ET, followed by a special one-hour premiere of the Emmy Award-winning Abbott Elementary and the unscripted courtroom comedy series Judge Steve Harvey. On Sunday, February 18, A...

Two men -- one from Jamestown -- face new indictments for operating alleged narcotics ring... Two men -- one from Jamestown and the other from Buffalo -- have been indicted by a federal grand jury o...

Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesJimmy Kimmel will host the 96th Academy Awards, the academy announced Wednesday. The 2024 Oscars ceremony will mark the fourth time that Kimmel has hosted the awards show. "I always dreamed of hosting the Oscars exactly four times," the Jimmy Kimmel Live! talk show host said in a press release. Kimmel hosted the 95th Academy Awards earlier this year. He also hosted the 89th Academy Awards in 2017 and the 90th Academy Awards in 2018. It was also announced We...

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The United States continues to be one of the "most dangerous developed nations" for childbirth, according to a new report released Thursday by March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of pregnant people and babies. The U.S. earned a D+ grade on its preterm birth rate for the second straight year in March of Dimes annual report looking at the state of maternal and infant health. The preterm birth rate was 10.4%. The ...

Greg Bajor/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Lawyers for the off-duty pilot facing attempted murder charges after allegedly trying to shut off an airplanes engines while on a flight last month have spoken out about the incident, saying their client, Joseph Emerson, "suffered a panic attack" while on the flight. In a lengthy statement, Levi Merrithew Horst PC, the firm that represents Emerson, said the plane incident occurred as the pilot was traveling from Washington, where he had just gathere...

Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An estimated 36 million adults in the United States have received the updated COVID-19 vaccine as of Monday, according to new data from the federal government. Additionally, about 3.5 million children have also gotten the updated shot, according to the survey, which is a sample size of the U.S. population, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This is roughly equal to the number of Americans who had received the bivalen...

Marvel StudiosWhile The Marvels may have flamed out at the box office, praise has been nearly universal for the second season of Marvel Studios Loki, which just wrapped up on Disney+. Everything Everywhere All at Once Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan joined the cast this season as Ouroboros, or O.B., the quirky tech genius behind the scenes of the Time Variance Authority. But he tells Variety he saw the character as a callback to one he was known for when he was a child actor. Quan explains, "In th...

Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews GroupThe Denver Post via Getty Images(BOULDER, Colo.) -- The man accused of killing 10 grocery shoppers in Boulder, Colorado, in March 2021 entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity on Tuesday. According to detectives, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 24, was ordered back to the Colorado Mental Health Institute and will be evaluated by January 8, 2024, ahead of a scheduled trial in August. A Boulder police detective at Tuesdays preliminary hearing described the even...

David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Commuters in Los Angeles are bracing for an all-day traffic nightmare after one of the nations busiest freeways was shut down indefinitely by a massive fire that erupted over the weekend in a storage yard underneath the normally congested artery. The 10 Freeway, traversed by more than 300,000 drivers daily, remained closed in both directions as authorities suggested a series of detours and announced there is no t...