New York police say a woman was kidnapped, carjacked, and brutally beaten by two assailants before she was able to escape the harrowing ordeal. ‘She’s holding down my head as she’s just repeatedly beating me and telling me I’m going to die tonight.’ Allison Smith told WHAM-TV about the Sept. 13 incident that put her […]

Paramount+ has dropped the first teaser for Season 2 of School Spirits and it sees Maddie (Peyton List) fearing more than death. “It’s what comes after death that can really freak you out,” she says in the teaser which was released today during the School Spirits panel at New York Comic Con. Picking up from […]

Cole Custer, the reigning Xfinity Series champion, has seen his life recently change. As he prepares for the upcoming NASCAR Xfinity Series playoff race in Las Vegas and takes steps toward a new role in the Cup Series, Custer is also balancing the challenges of fatherhood. The birth of his son, Callahan Brian Custer, during […]

X, formerly Twitter, recently announced it’s changing the way the social media platform’s block function works. Currently, blocking a user means that account can no longer see the posts of the user who blocked them. But X said this week that would change soon, though it did not specify when. Instead, the updated block function […]

Will Lutz made his return to New Orleans count. The one-time Pro Bowl kicker made all four of his field goal attempts to help lift the Denver Broncos to a 33-10 victory over the Saints Thursday night. But Lutz took notice of the apparent boos that rained down from the Saints’ faithful during the game. […]

Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable of seamlessly integrating text and speech inputs and outputs. As such, it competes directly with OpenAI’s GPT-4o (also natively multimodal) and other multimodal models such as Hume’s EVI 2, as well as dedicated text-to-speech and […]

Federal prosecutors on Friday argued against a request by Mayor Eric Adams that a judge to throw out a bribery charge against Mr. Adams, saying they had clearly described his alleged quid pro quo for luxury travel and that a jury should decide the issue. In a 25-page filing, prosecutors with the U.S. attorney’s office […]

Richard Allen was armed with a gun when he came across teenage friends Abigail “Abby” Williams and Liberty “Libby” German near a hiking trail in Delphi, Indiana, in February 2017, then used “power and the fear” to force them “down the hill” before slitting their throats, prosecutors said in their opening statement Friday in his […]

A New York man pleaded guilty on Friday to a felony charge of civil disorder for storming the U.S. Capitol while armed with a knife on Jan. 6, 2021, as supporters of former President Donald J. Trump sought to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. The man, Christopher D. Finney, 32, of […]

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details about the premiere episode of Matlock on CBS. Although Matlock has returned to the screen in name, that’s about where the similarities end with the new reboot. CBS chief marketing officer Mike Benson recently explained why the Kathy Bates-led reboot of the 1986-’95 legal drama ventures so far away […]