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Ftwitty/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million civil lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric Trump and and Donald Trump Jr., and Trump Organization executives are accused by New York Attorney General Letitia James of engaging in a decade-long scheme in which they used "numerous acts of fraud and misrepresentation" to inflate Trumps ne...

Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images(LANSING, Mich.) -- Michigan lawmakers have passed a series of 9 bills repealing certain abortion restrictions, which are now headed to Gov. Gretchen Whitmers desk. The package, called the Reproductive Health Act, aims to help increase access to abortion that may have remained unavailable or inaccessible in some parts of the state. It comes a year after Michiganders voted overwhelmingly in favor of Proposal 3 (Prop 3), which enshrined abortion rights in the s...

Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue(DETROIT) -- A suspect is in custody in connection with the murder of Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll, police said. Woll was found stabbed to death outside her home on Oct. 21. Detroit police said last month that there was no evidence to point to the crime being motivated by antisemitism. Police did not release the suspects name. "The details of the investigation will remain confidential at this time to ensure the integrity of the important steps tha...

Prime VideoWhile theres no release date yet, Prime Video has released a pair of new images from the forthcoming fourth season of its Emmy-nominated skewed superhero show The Boys. In the two contrasting images, Antony Starrs vicious Homelander is pictured posing triumphantly as confetti falls around him; the second image shows Karl Urbans Billy Butcher dejectedly looking at the balloon- and confetti-covered ground. The fourth season evidently centers on the presidential run of Homelander-backed,...

Ecklund becomes second woman to win Jamestown Mayoral election... There will be a new mayor in the city of Jamestown come Jan. 1... and, for only the second time, it will be a woman in the position....

Prime Video/Brooke PalmerOn Tuesday, Prime Video released the trailer to the second season of its hit action drama Reacher. Hulking Alan Ritchson is back as author Lee Childs bruising former military investigator, and the trailer kicks things off with a bang: Reacher spots a woman nervously withdrawing money at an ATM and quickly realizes shes being forced to do so by a carjacker. The guy who says he "prefers not getting involved" responds by calmly walking to her vehicle, punching out...

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The CDC is warning about "dire" levels of babies born with syphilis in the U.S., with a new analysis showing a tenfold increase from 2012 to 2022. The agencys data shows that 3,761 babies were born with syphilis in 2022, and more than 200 babies died from the disease that year. Nine in 10 of those cases of babies born syphilis could have been prevented with better testing and treatment for syphilis in pregnant people, according to the new ...

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Authorities are calling for footage to determine what led up to a deadly altercation at an Israel-Hamas war protest in California over the weekend amid conflicting witness reports, the sheriff said. Paul Kessler, a 69-year-old Jewish man, died from blunt-force head trauma following a confrontation with a counterprotester on Sunday, amid simultaneous pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Thousand Oaks, the Ventura County Sheriffs Office said...

McClain Family Photo(AURORA, Colo.) -- The jury has acquitted Nathan Woodyard on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the second trial concerning the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain following an altercation with Aurora, Colorado, police. Woodyard was the first police officer on the scene in August 2019 and put McClain in a carotid hold. He has pleaded not guilty . In closing arguments, the prosecution argued the carotid hold that Woodyard placed McClain in had contrib...

Stranger Things on Stage/NetflixOn November 6, known to fans as Stranger Things Day, Netflix gave a peek behind the curtain of Stranger Things: The First Shadow. The stage production prequel of the streaming series phenomenon opens in previews at Londons Phoenix Theatre before its official opening December 14.  In the snippet provided by Netflix, show creators Matt and Ross Duffer explain that while they and their writers were working on the fourth season of the show, they realized th...