Gotham/WireImage On the afternoon of May 5, Dua Lipa sent word to fans on her mailing list that she was going to perform live in New York City that evening — and then had a pop-up performance at 8:30 p.m. Thousands of fans packed into Times Square in the rain, and …

Mark Peterson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Donald Trump is standing trial in New York on felony charges connected with hush money paid to allegedly conceal claims of an affair from voters before the 2016 presidential election. It’s a historic event — at a time when Americans are also weighing who …

Nathan Wade, Fulton County prosecutor, at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Friday, March 1, 2024. — Alex Slitz/AP/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Nathan Wade, the former Fulton County, Georgia, special prosecutor who was forced to resign from the election interference case against Donald Trump after …

Flanked by attorneys, former U.S. President Donald Trump appears in the courtroom for his arraignment proceeding at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 4, 2023, in New York City. (Photo by Seth Wenig-Pool/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is …

Beth Garrabrant After a massive debut, Taylor Swift‘s The Tortured Poets Department spends a second week at #1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. As previously reported, the album debuted with 2.61 million units a week ago. In it second week, it sold 439,000 units. Billboard says that’s the biggest …

In the days ahead of the 2016 election, Michael Cohen wired Stormy Daniels’ lawyer $130,000 and entered into a confidential settlement agreement to kill the story, according to prosecutors. — Manhattan District Attorney’s Office (NEW YORK) — When jurors heard opening statements in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial two …

Jeremy Hogan/Getty Images (NORTH BRADDOCK, Pa.) — A church service in Pennsylvania came to a terrifying halt on Sunday when authorities say a man pulled a gun on the pastor and allegedly attempted to shoot him during his sermon. Allegheny County authorities later said they had found a body in …

Katia Temkin Ariana Grande has been named one of People’s Beauties of the Year in its annual Beautiful Issue, which is out now. The magazine has chosen 20 “awesome women who inspired us this year” for its list, and Ariana is one of them, for releasing her album eternal sunshine. Also …

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (LONG BEACH, Calif.) — About seven people were injured in a shooting in Long Beach, California, late Saturday, police said. Officers responded at about 11:15 p.m. to the area near the intersection of South Street and Paramount Boulevard, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement. …

WKBW (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — Saturday night outside a house party in Buffalo, New York, several blocks from the supermarket where a 2022 mass shooting occurred, according to police. The shooting unfolded just after 11 p.m. in Buffalo’s East Side neighborhood where “several hundred” teenagers were gathered for a party, police …