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Hunter Biden’s trial on nine federal tax charges will move from late June to Sept. 5, a judge in Los Angeles ruled Wednesday.

For Donald Trump’s defense team, the ultimate hope was to tarnish Michael Cohen’s earlier testimony under questioning by prosecutors, during which he helped connect the former president to charges related to hush money payments to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

While many hear an eerie resemblance between OpenAI's “Sky” and Scarlett Johansson’s “Her” character, another actor was hired to create the Sky voice months before CEO Altman contacted Johansson, according to documents, recordings, casting directors and the actor's agent.

Louisiana could become the first state to classify abortion pills as dangerous controlled substances, making possession of the pills without a prescription a crime subject to jail time and fines.

A Michigan dairy worker has been infected with a highly virulent bird flu, the second human case in less than two months of the H5N1 virus circulating among dairy cows.

American Airlines says an “error” was made in a legal filing this week when it blamed a 9-year-old girl for allegedly being secretly recorded by one of the airline’s flight attendants.

Israel recalled its ambassadors to Ireland, Norway and Spain after they announced they would recognize a Palestinian state.

Rudy Giuliani has brewed up a new business — and the reactions from social media are pouring in. The former New York City Mayor, who is currently grappling with bankruptcy and a debt of $148 million, rolled out the ads for his personally branded coffee amid his ongoing legal issues stemming from the 2020 election.

The U.S. government has assessed that Russia recently launched a “counterspace weapon” into orbit that could be used to attack satellites, U.S. officials said this week, adding to concerns about a new frontier for conflict between the nations.

NASA announced late Tuesday that it was no longer aiming for a Saturday launch of a pair of astronauts aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner as teams discuss a helium leak found on the spacecraft. While the range was cleared for Sunday and Tuesday backup launch windows, NASA said the next possible launch “is still being discussed.”

After passing a statement calling for peace in the Middle East, Doral political leaders scrambled to douse the firestorm the purely symbolic resolution sparked in their own backyard.

A former model has accused Sean "Diddy" Combs of sexual assault in a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York. The lawsuit alleges that in 2003, Combs assaulted model Crystal McKinney at his music studio after a Men's Fashion Week dinner.

After a set of damaging tornadoes swept through southwestern portions of Iowa, killing multiple people, communities were surveying the destruction Wednesday.

The Houthi militants in Yemen have weapons that can reach as far as the Mediterranean Sea, according to a senior defense official, lending some credence to the group’s threats that it can expand its attacks on shipping beyond its immediate borders.

Births continued a historic slide in all but two states last year, making it clear that a brief post-pandemic uptick in the nation’s birth numbers was all about planned pregnancies that had been delayed temporarily by COVID-19. 

Hunter Biden, in a trial scheduled to get underway in two weeks, could face testimony from his ex-wife and his brother’s widow, with whom he became romantically involved, according to new filings from federal prosecutors that illustrate just how messy the seemingly simple court case could turn.

Matthew Perry's death from acute effects of the prescription drug ketamine is the source of a criminal investigation, with authorities examining where the actor got the medication, LAPD officials told The Times.