Christa Pike is a cold-blooded murderer who should be put to death ... at least according to prosecutors fighting her request to pump the brakes on her scheduled execution.
According to court docs, obtained by TMZ, the feds are asking the court to deny Christa's recent request to send her case to another court for further proceedings about whether she received ineffective assistance of counsel at her sentencing … but prosecutors insist this is just another effort to relitigate a previously rejected claim.
In their filing, the prosecutors make their position clear, writing, "On January 12, 1995, Christa Gail Pike beat, tortured, and killed Colleen Slemmer because Pike 'just felt mean that day.'"
They go on ... "Pike cut Colleen's throat six times, struck her in the back with a meat cleaver, and crushed her skull with a piece of asphalt."
Pete Davidson is opening up about how intense his drug use was when he was deep in his addiction ... listing off exactly what he was doing ... and it's a lot to take in.
The 'SNL' alum tells Variety in addition to doing a ton of drugs, he was also cooking ketamine, saying ... "It was K. I was getting liquid and cooking it. And I would do acid and shrooms and whippets and smoke weed all day and eat pills every day."
He went on to say his tolerance had become alarmingly high, explaining ... "It got scary because I didn't feel high. I felt high when I wasn't doing it, so I was like, this is a huge problem."
Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity moved quickly to dismiss multiple frat bros accused of sexual assault ... kicking them out days after their fellow student went to police in 2024 ... at least according to a fraternity executive.
Trey Robb, the interim executive director of Chi Phi's national organization, told the New York Times that the Cornell chapter unanimously voted to dismiss the members just 3 days after Jane Doe made a sworn statement to police.
Those members were later expelled from Chi Phi's national group.
However ... a source told the publication that only 4 members were kicked out ... and that the fraternity only knew about 4 accused at the time.
Paramount is officially over its last hurdle for its Warner Bros. merger ... thanks to a California judge.
On Wednesday, the judge approved the studio's settlement with California and several other states ... so it's free to move forward with the $111 billion takeover, according to multiple reports.
Paramount and the states reached a settlement last week, which would require the merged company to create an editorial board to oversee both CBS News and CNN.
Kyrsten Sinema's ex-boyfriend says he threw 22 of her paintings into her pool because he was frustrated by the former senator's alleged ties to A.I. and the war in Gaza.
Matthew Ammel told AZ Central ... "I was pissed at the system, and I took it out on her art. The American people have no idea how (f***ed) up our government is and, like, what our politicians spend their time doing."
At the time of the incident ... Ammel said he had been staying at her Cave Creek property while she was away in Phoenix.
Tom Cruise's famous cake list just got a little bigger ... because he passed out slices to everyone in the audience at "The Jennifer Hudson Show."
It all started when Jennifer asked how she could get on the list for TC's signature coconut cake -- he gifts cake to his fellow celebrities during the holidays each year.
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Tom tells Jennifer she's already on the list ... and, as it turns out, he brought some coconut cake to share with her studio audience.
We're just a couple of weeks out from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, and this 2025 rookie definitely knows how to rock a runway ... and some short daisy dukes!
She's a Brazilian influencer and model with a large TikTok following. Her assets and good vibes earned her a spot as a rookie in the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Oh, and since it's hump-day, we're just gonna leave this mid-week treat of her on the VS runway, right in your laps!
Gillio Lopes, one of the fraternity brothers accused of drugging and raping a fellow Cornell student, is trying to clear his name ... with his lawyer denying all the allegations against him.
His attorney, Tara J. Davis, tells TMZ ... "Cornell previously investigated this matter and developed an extensive factual record. The allegations now being made publicly differ in significant respects from the accounts provided during that investigation and do not reflect the complete record."
Lopes' lawyer adds ... "Those inconsistencies will be tested through discovery and addressed in the litigation."
Antonio Brown showed up to a Miami courthouse Wednesday ready to take a sweet plea deal that'd put his serious felony charge behind him.
The judge had different plans ... telling the attorneys and the former Steelers' superstar that she wanted more time to review the agreement.
No rubber stamp here.
AB -- who is facing up to 30 years in prison if he were to be convicted of the 2nd-degree attempted murder charge he's facing -- struck a deal with prosecutors that'd see him put on probation, rather than spending another minute behind bars.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Cornell alum, says her alma mater needs to "step up" in the alleged gang rape case ... and stop treating accountability like an afterthought ... because they've so far failed to protect women.
Jacobcaught up with the senator from Michigan on Capitol Hill Wednesday ... and she told him Cornell should have taken the allegations seriously from the jump.
Slotkin said universities have plenty of ways to take action and hold students accountable while a legal case plays out -- suspensions, expulsions, indefinite suspensions -- and made clear she doesn't consider writing an essay much of a punishment.
TMZ has obtained a video of Presley Gerber at the sober house where he died, and sources with direct knowledge have filled in the blanks for us ... and the circumstances of his death are shocking.
The video was shot by Presley inside the Santa Monica facility, Resolutions Living, around 10 PM Saturday night. He appears in a bedroom and other areas of the house. There is no one else in sight.
It is apparent Presley is high. The video is jumpy because we slowed it down.
Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike was supposed to be executed this morning ... but her execution was paused just an hour before her scheduled lethal injection.
According to a court notice obtained by PEOPLE, Pike was granted a stay "until further order" by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
The court reportedly said it needed time to consider Pike's latest filing, where her attorneys claim the state had reversed its position that she'd fabricated her claims of sexual abuse.
The owner of the Santa Monica sober living facility where Presley Gerberdied was spotted enjoying lunch in the neighborhood ... we have the pics, and he doesn't look too broken up.
Dr. Reza Nabavi, who founded Resolutions Living, can be seen holding his phone in one hand and a drink in the other on Tuesday around midday ... and based on his stare at the camera, he seems calm and composed.
We already showed you video Presley filmed at Resolutions Living after checking in ... giving a tour while clearly high ... the night before he was discovered dead in his room.
The White House's latest document on preventing the dangers of artificial intelligence happens to have a major typo ... and pretty much everyone is making the same joke.
In a press release on the Trump administration's commitment to have A.I. companies self-regulate ... the document lists Trump's title as president of the "Unites States" -- not United States.
Needless to say ... there were a few White House X followers who were quick to point out that had they used A.I., the error might have been avoided.
Huge update in the hit-and-run case that killed former Nickelodeon child star Kianna Underwood ... a suspect has finally been arrested ... more than 8 months after the tragedy.
Michael Griffiths was busted Tuesday, and the 72-year-old has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and leaving the scene of an accident with injury ... according to CBS News.
As we told you ... sources say that Kianna had been dragged by one of the cars involved in the January 2026 hit-and-run for almost two whole blocks in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood.
10:10 AM PT -- Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with one of the plane passengers who helped take down the attempted hijacker after returning safely to Israel.
One of the Israeli passengers who subdued the pilot-hijacker on board flydubai FZ 1073 told PM Netanyahu that the stabbed captain managed to open the cockpit door before collapsing. This enabled the passengers to enter and seize the attacker, as he was attempting to destroy the… pic.twitter.com/TuOiAGBWy9@ariel_oseran
He told the PM the stabbed pilot was able to open the door before collapsing to the ground ... giving passengers the chance to rush and subdue the attacker.
An Israel-bound commercial flight was sent into chaos Wednesday morning when two pilots got into a violent confrontation during what officials are calling a "terror attack attempt" ... and graphic video shows the captain drenched in blood after being stabbed.
The bloody footage shows the captain wearing an oxygen mask as he lies on his back in the galley ... his body is covered in blood-soaked bandages as he clings to life next to a blood-soaked wall, as bloodied passengers stand over him.
It looks like the pilot was stabbed several times ... and it appears his alleged attacker, his co-pilot, is unconscious by the time the video was shot ... his white uniform soaked in blood.
