Karmelo Anthony posed for a new booking photo hours after being convicted of murder.
Anthony, 19, posed for his fresh mug shot at the Collin County Jail after he was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison for fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf, 17, at a track meet in Frisco, Texas.
A Collin County jury found Anthony guilty of murder following four days of testimony, in which Karmelo's attorney failed to convince jurors his client acted in self-defense.
Rep. Nancy Mace's bid to become South Carolina's next governor is officially over after the outspoken Republican failed to land an endorsement from President Trump and survive a GOP primary ... and she says the Epstein Files were a factor in her defeat.
Mace conceded the race Tuesday night less than 2 hours after polls closed. She ended up in 5th place with only 12% of the vote, while Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette advanced to a runoff against state Attorney General AlanWilson.
Mace, the first Republican woman from South Carolina elected to Congress, was once a top contender in the race for governor ... but a series of scandals and lack of support for Trump doomed her.
She also blamed backlash from her push to release the Epstein Files ... but said she had no regrets about her work in Congress.
Emotions were running high outside a Texas courthouse while Karmelo Anthony was inside awaiting his fate ... and Anthony wasn't the only one who left in handcuffs.
According to the Collin County Sheriff's Department, one person was arrested for public intoxication Tuesday while another was taken into custody on an outstanding warrant for unlawful carrying of a weapon.
Authorities say they're still gathering information and have not yet released the identities of either individual.
The arrests came as supporters of both Anthony and stabbing victim, Austin Metcalf, gathered outside the courthouse during the trial and sentencing hearing.
On Tuesday, the jury found the Texas teen guilty of murder, for stabbing Austin to death at a high school track meet last April. The death penalty was off the table because Karmelo was a minor.
The jury rejected Anthony's claim he acted under "sudden passion" in the fatal stabbing. Anthony will be required to serve at least half of the sentence before he can be considered for parole.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says the government can find money "out of nowhere" to fund wars, and it's even lining some Congress members' pockets -- something she desperately wants to change.
Charlie caught up with the Congresswoman from Michigan Tuesday to talk about the latest retaliatory strikes on Iran ... attacks made without Congressional approval, which didn't exactly shock her, at this point.
Rep. Tlaib told us she can't get her colleagues to care or "move with the same sense of urgency" when it comes to other issues impacting Americans day-to-day.
Jason Khan, who ran the foot fetish site FootPadNYC.com, has been indicted on sex trafficking charges for allegedly luring and raping aspiring foot models, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday.
According to the indictment, Khan allegedly used his foot fetish site to get women to hotel rooms by pretending he was going to offer them foot modeling jobs.
The indictment claims that the women would go to the hotel rooms to be interviewed, and that's when Khan would rape or sexually assault them.
Francisco Gonzalez-- the Florida attorney accused of helping bankroll an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting his daughter Gabbie's baby daddy Jack Avery-- says prosecutors are trying to keep him locked up without bail based on speculation, not evidence.
According to new court documents, obtained by TMZ, Francisco is asking the judge to reject the state's request for no bail and instead release him on a $2M bond with strict conditions. His lawyer argues prosecutors have failed to show he's a current danger to Jack, witnesses or the public.
As TMZ previously reported ... Gabbie was released from custody on a $2M bond shortly after last month's arrest.
Francisco, however, remains behind bars as prosecutors continue pushing for a no-bail order.
The jury has spoken in the Karmelo Anthonymurder trial ... and they found him guilty of murder, rejecting his claim of self-defense.
A Collin County jury returned the verdict Tuesday after hours of deliberation in Anthony's trial for the fatal stabbing of fellow teenager Austin Metcalfat a Frisco, Texas track meet in April 2025. Anthony faces between 5 and 99 years in prison.
The case centered on a confrontation under a team tent that ended with Metcalf being stabbed once in the chest. Prosecutors argued Anthony turned a dispute into a deadly encounter ... while the defense maintained he acted in self-defense.
The United States military is firing back at Iran ... after President Trump said the Iranians shot down a U.S. military helicopter and vowed to retaliate.
U.S. forces began launching "self-defense strikes" against Iran at 5 PM ET Tuesday ... according to an X post from U.S. Central Command.
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Central Command says the strikes are being launched at Trump's direction in response to his claim that Iran downed a U.S. Army Apache helicopter Monday as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz.
Karmelo Anthony's mom took the stand to plead with the jury set to determine her son's fate, TMZ has learned.
Kala Hayes testified minutes after her son was found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf. She told the 12-person jury she knows her son is very sorry for what he did.
Prosecutors asked Kala if she still had love for her son.
The government's biggest UFO whistleblower says there are a bunch of folks who know what's going on behind closed doors ... they're just too scared to go public.
Jacobcaught up with David GruschTuesday in D.C. and asked him if people inside the Pentagon are afraid to speak out about UFOs and extraterrestrials.
David says the fallout from his own whistleblower experience has had a chilling effect on current and former federal employees ... and they don't want a similar fate.
It's Lesley Groff's turn to testify in a Congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's crimes ... and it sounds like his former assistant said she never saw the late pedophile do anything illegal.
Groff appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday to begin her testimony, and a source familiar with the matter told MS NOW that Groff told the committee ... "I never saw anything improper."
The report said Groff's been answering questions, but sometimes responds by saying she doesn't know or doesn't remember.
OnlyFans model Michaela Rylaarsdam had a guilt-fueled meltdown in court as she was sentenced for killing a man in a BDSM act.
Rylaarsdam was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Dale, who suffocated to death after she put a plastic bag, Saran Wrap, and duct tape over his head during a kinky encounter gone wrong.
The adult entertainer, wife, and mother of three broke down on the stand in San Diego Superior Court as she profusely apologized to Dale's family.
President Trumpsays the United States is preparing to respond after Iran shot down a U.S. military helicopter near the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a Truth Social post ... claiming Iranian forces brought down a "highly sophisticated Apache Helicopter" during an overnight patrol mission.
POTUS say two American pilots were aboard the airship ... and, fortunately, both escaped unharmed.
Trump says he's already been briefed by military officials .. and it sounds like retaliation is squarely on the table.
Rep. Thomas Massiesays election fraud is real ... but not in the way most people think.
The Kentucky congressman stopped to chat with Charlie on Capitol Hill Monday ... and while plenty of politicians are focused on voting machines and ballot counts, Massie pointed the finger somewhere else entirely.
In his conversation with TMZ DC, Massie offers a pretty unconventional take on how elections get "stolen" in America ... and it has less to do with what happens at the polls and more with what happens after lawmakers arrive in Washington.
Karmelo Anthony was defending himself when he fatally stabbed Austin Metcalf because Austin was using "deadly force" ... at least that's what Karmelo's defense is saying.
Closing arguments began in Karmelo's murder trial Tuesday, and the defense went first.
Defense attorney Mike Howard told the jury Austin "had no legal right" to put his hands on Karmelo, or use force to remove him from the tent they were under at a Texas high school track meet.
Howard described how it was raining during the event, and someone from Frisco Memorial High School allegedly told Karmelo he could come under their tent to stay dry.
Howard continued ... "Then all of the sudden Hunter Metcalf, or Austin, says 'Who are you? You need to leave.' ... These guys are much bigger than you. Do you turn your back and walk away and take a chance with these teenage boys with their raging hormones?"
