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Mayor Eric Adams holds a press availability at a news conference Jan. 08, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- The sexual assault lawsuit against New York Mayor Eric Adams is "entirely fictitious" and should be dismissed, his defense attorney Alex Spiro wrote in a new court filing.Spiro is assisting the city's Law Department in defending the mayor, who, as a New York City Police Department captain at the time of the alleged conduct, is eligible for free legal representation from the city.The attorney set to work Tuesday, filing the answer to a complaint fr...

Self-service checkout customer scanning and paying in a Walmart Supercenter in Miami, Florida. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Walmart shoppers may be entitled to up to $500 in cash after the retail giant agreed to pay $45 million to settle a class action lawsuit over "weighted goods."The company, which has denied any wrongdoing, was accused of overcharging customers for sold-by-weight items such as meat, poultry, pork, seafood and bagged citrus fruit at Walmart locations across the U.S. and Puerto Rico between Oct. 19, 2018, and Jan. 19, 2024, according to the administ...

Photo by Mike Kline (notkalvin)/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The House is back in session Tuesday after a two-week-long Easter recess, and Speaker Mike Johnson is returning with his speakership under threat after fellow Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to oust him just months after he ascended to the position.The Georgia Republican filed a motion to vacate Johnson just before the chamber broke for recess. She made the move after a vote to fund the government to prevent a shutdown -- which Johnson needed Democratic votes to pass.Greene called her motion to vacate a "war...

Madeleine Westerhout watches as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with North Korean defectors in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Feb. 2, 2018. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- To try to prove their criminal hush money case against former President Donald Trump, prosecutors in New York are expected to rely on several witnesses who are or were part of Trump's inner circle, including his longtime assistant, Rhona Graff, his former director of Oval Office operations, Madeleine Westerhout, and longtime trusted aide, Hope Hicks, source...

People walk on the campus of the University of Southern California on March 21, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- President Biden is set to announce new student debt forgiveness plans that, combined with actions the administration has already taken, will benefit over 30 million Americans if the plans are finalized, according to the White House."Our goal is for the overwhelming majority of things like interest, loans that are older, borrowers who attended programs that didn't deliver financial value, to do that [cancel debt] automatically,&q...