Swing and a miss for Bill Cosby ... he struck out in his attempt at a second chance to defend himself from Donna Motsinger's rape allegations.
According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Cosby's motion for a new trial has been denied.
The disgraced comedian filed the motion last month, asking a judge for a new trial after a jury ordered him to pay Motsinger nearly $60 Million in total damages ... the judge's ruling came down Friday, and it's not the result Cosby was looking for.
Christine's listened to the jail calls and is NOT pleased, telling TMZ ... "She knows now her calls are recorded and that people have been reviewing them, you can tell how she’s carefully using her words."
Dominic's sister adds ... "And I think it’s sad her mother condones her talking to strange men she doesn’t know. Like I said 100 times, and I’ll say it again till the day I die, that woman needs to tell her daughter to pick up a Bible and beg the Lord to save her soul, NOT WORRY ABOUT STRANGE OLDER MEN. GO TO THERAPY, GET HELP FOR YOUR KID.”
Rebecca Harois headed to prison for her role in the death of her infant son, Emmanuel ... admitting she failed to protect the 7-month-old and helped cover up the circumstances surrounding his death.
Rebecca pleaded guilty Friday to child abuse causing great bodily injury to a child under 5, involuntary manslaughter, and accessory after the fact, according to the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. As part of a plea agreement, she was immediately sentenced to 12 years and 8 months in state prison.
TMZ previously reported Rebecca and her husband, Jake Haro, were arrested after claiming Emmanuel had been abducted in a parking lot. Investigators later determined the kidnapping never happened and alleged the story had been fabricated.
Mackenzie Shirilla says the fatal car crash that landed her in prison haunts her ... telling her mom the mere thought of it makes her want to vomit.
In undated jail audio, obtained by TMZ, Mackenzie talks with her mother, Natalie, about the deadly 2022 wreck that killed her boyfriend Dominic Russoand friend DavionFlanagan ... and it's emotional and graphic.
Mackenzie says she still struggles to process why she survived the crash while the two young men didn't ... wondering, "How did I not die?" before revealing she regularly has intrusive thoughts about Dom and Davion's fatal injuries.
Steve Shirilla says his daughter, Mackenzie, definitely feels remorse for the way Dominic Russo died ... even though he maintains she didn't do it on purpose.
Shirilla spoke about his daughter's case on the "True Crime This Week" podcast in an episode published Wednesday ... and he says he sat with his daughter for months -- so he knows how terrible she feels about how Dom and their friend, Davion Flanagan, died.
Steve says Mackenzie had a shrine to Dominic in her room ... and he says she's repeatedly told him she didn't kill Dominic on purpose.
Pam Bondi was stoic and silent as she headed into a closed-door hearing to testify before Congress over her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Watch the scene ... Bondi -- suited in red -- arrived on Capitol Hill amid a heavy police and media presence. The former Attorney General ignored the questions she presumably will face from lawmakers.
Our TMC DC guy, Charlie, took a different approach ... asking how her day was going. She vaguely acknowledged his inquiry ... but otherwise, it was lips tightly sealed.
The White House is taking a page straight out of a sci-fi movie ... launching a new government website about "aliens" that looks like it's about UFOs -- before revealing it's actually about undocumented immigrants.
The Trump administration rolled out ALIENS.GOV this week ... and at first glance, it reads like a classified conspiracy file. The site warns that "aliens have been walking among us," living in American neighborhoods and interacting with citizens for decades.
E. Jean Carrollcan perhaps breathe a sigh of relief ... after a U.S. Attorney denied reports his office isinvestigating her in connection with her lawsuit alleging President Donald Trump sexually abused her ... but we're told she is connected to a related investigation.
Andrew Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, posted a message on X Thursday, saying he had not opened a criminal investigation into Carroll despite numerous media reports saying otherwise. Boutros noted, "Any claim to the contrary is categorically false.”
However, law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Boutros' office is looking into a Chicago-based entity tied to billionaire Reid Hoffman, who allegedly provided some funding to Carroll for legal expenses she incurred during the Trump lawsuit.
Eight students experienced a rollercoaster of emotions Thursday evening when their field trip nearly ended in disaster ... resulting in a daring rescue mission by first responders.
Check out the scene from Pleasure Pier in Galveston, Texas ... where firefighters went up in a fire engine's basket to wrench the eight individuals from the ride.
The two first responders busy themselves as the students sit and wait ... the only thing the trapped patrons could do for numerous hours.
Jeff Bezos experienced a major setback with his Blue Origin rocket, which exploded in a fireball during a ground test in Florida.
Here's our video of the explosion at Launch Complex 36. It happened about 9 pm ET (0100 UTC) as Blue Origin was beginning a static fire test of its New Glenn rocket.
The dramatic scene was captured on video Thursday night as the Blue Origin New Glenn rocket was trying to lift off from a launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Blue Origin said it was all part of an engine test being conducted for a satellite launch next week.
As you can see ... the rocket turns into a massive ball of fire with smoke billowing up to the sky. Thankfully, no one was injured.
Mackenzie Shirilla's taking her conviction to the highest court in Ohio ... asking the state's supreme court to take another look at her double murder rap.
Shirilla's lawyers filed the appeal paperwork back in April, according to reports ... “there is medical evidence” that Shirilla “suffered from a pre-existing medical condition that could have caused her to black out while driving.”
The appeal claims her attorney didn't properly investigate this possibility initially.
Anna Kepner’s stepbrother allegedly choked her “for minutes” as his final “barbaric” act in her murder … according to prosecutors.
In a newly unsealed transcript from a February hearing obtained by TMZ, prosecutors described how they say Timothy Hudson -- Anna’s 16-year-old stepbrother -- killed her … claiming he put her in a chokehold until she suffocated to death.
Prosecutor Alejandra Lopez described it as “a barbaric, intentional, thoughtful act,” saying "[w]hile she struggled to breathe for minutes, he continued to hold her neck in that manner so that she would die from lack of oxygen.”
The federal district court judge who got reprimanded having noisy sex in her chambers with a police officer as part of an extramarital affair has been identified ... and she's got connections to Barack Obama and Todd Chrisley.
Eleanor Ross is the judge in question here ... she is based in Atlanta with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Ross was appointed by President Obama during his second term, and in November 2022 she was the judge who sentenced Todd to 12 years in federal custody as part of his bank fraud and tax evasion case.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdanisays he's down to watch the Knicks in the NBA Finals, but don't expect to see him sitting courtside with President Trump... that's IF the commander-in-chief shows up at Madison Square Garden.
Jacob caught up with Mamdani Thursday in Queens, and asked him about Trump saying he plans to attend a Finals game after being invited by Knicks owner James Dolan.
Mamdani doesn't sound too interested in making it a bipartisan basketball outing ... saying, "If the president went to a game, that's his decision to make. If I go to the game, I’ll be doing so separately."
Stephen Miller fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch going down ... so says one of the country's major political parties.
Yes, midterm elections are just a few months away ... and the political mudslinging has hit elementary school playground-levels with the official Democrats' X account telling Miller he's got no alibi .... 'cause he's U-G-L-Y.
The account lambasted Miller after he reshared a photo on Wednesday of Texas State Rep. James Talarico -- a candidate to represent the Lone Star State in the Senate -- and joked he's the party's "first transgender senate candidate."
Tragedy in L.A. -- two adults and two children were found dead inside a North Hills home in what cops are investigating as a murder-suicide.
Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to the scene around 8 PM Wednesday night ... and first responders discovered four victims suffering from gunshot wounds.
All four were pronounced dead at the scene -- and video shows the neighborhood swarmed with police, the home sealed off behind crime scene tape.
