Three cars were completely totaled when a truck collided with a tractor-trailer ... and the insane accident was caught on video.
Another semi was waiting to turn at the intersection of W Avenue and Highway 3 in Iowa on Monday, and you can see the tractor-trailer coming down the road on the dashcam.
As it approaches the intersection, a Dodge Ram comes into frame from the road on the right, barreling towards the stop sign and blowing right through it.
Dr. Anthony Fauci was not about to play ball at Wednesday's Senate hearing, where he was getting grilled about his leadership during the 2020 pandemic ... pleading the 5th Amendment to every question, and sparking at least one heated exchange.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul took the lead during the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing ... focusing on Fauci's private journal entries between December 2019 and December 2022.
Paul subpoenaed the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to testify ... but it seems it'll be a waste of time.
The murder trial for Lindsay Clancy enters day 2 ... and her ex-husband Patricktook the stand to reveal the horrifying scene he saw when he found the children's bodies.
Clancy is accused of strangling Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan with elastic workout bands at her Duxbury, Massachusetts home -- before she tried to kill herself.
Opening statements were Monday in a horrific case ... and Clancy's ex-husband Patrick took the stand, and he defended her.
The heroic teen lifeguard who saved a young boy in Santa Cruz, CA also saved other swimmers that day, according to his family.
16-year-old Ryder Williams went viral for a video of him rescuing a young boy from intense waves off last weekend at Seabright Beach, but as intense as that action was ... turns out Ryder did that 2 more times.
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His grandfather told the California Post ... "He had two rescues afterwards on the same day that were more gnarly." In fact, the proud grandpa says Ryder's total tally was 5 saves on Saturday alone.
Nolan Wells’ mother, Christine Wells-Wonsley, is making moves in court to get her hands on her late son’s social media accounts, TMZ has learned.
TMZ obtained court docs filed by Christine on Tuesday, revealing she fired off subpoenas to the companies behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Life360, Snapchat and TikTok. During the search, Christine used Life360 to track Nolan's phone and compared the location history between Snapchat and the tracking app, but found that the data didn't match.
The subpoenas request the social media companies turn over all materials and information related to Nolan's account.
More bombshell allegations against JPMorgan Chase executive Lorna Hajdini ... and this time an alleged threesome is involved.
The same banker suing Hajdini for allegedly making him perform "non-consensual" and "humiliating" sex acts filed another lawsuit Monday, claiming his boss once propositioned a threesome with him and another person while "completely naked" and "visibly drunk."
According to the filing, obtained by TMZ, Hajdini assaulted him in September 2024 ... after allegedly threatening to tank his promotion if he didn't have sex with her.
Sen. Mark Kelly says President Trump doesn't care about making Americans' lives better ... because all Trump cares about is "bull**** and corruption."
Charlie got the Senator from Arizona Tuesday in D.C. and asked if a Democratic prez would have the gumption to dismantle pieces of Trump's legacy ... like his plans for a White House ballroom and an arch.
Kelly says the next Dem who wins the presidency will be focused on improving our country ... not obsessing over "bull**** and corruption."
James Farthing picked the right Powerball numbers once ... but since banking Kentucky's biggest jackpot ever, another number keeps popping up -- 4, as in four arrests.
The latest came Monday, when the $167.3 million winner was busted in Scott County for allegedly strangling a woman after a boating trip.
The woman claims Farthing grabbed her by the neck during an alleged argument Sunday morning ... leaving visible welts. She also told investigators the alleged attack may have been captured by a Ring camera inside the bedroom.
Here's Aysia Collins ... the woman who Celeste Rivas Hernandez seemingly grew jealous of the day before D4vdallegedly murdered her ... and the supposed catalyst behind Celeste's threatening texts.
Aysia was named in court during D4vd's preliminary hearing ... text messages between Celeste and D4vd showed Celeste erupting over D4vd's friendship with the model and streamer.
In one of the texts read aloud in court, Celeste sent David a threatening text after confronting him about hanging out with Aysia at his Hollywood Hills home ... with Celeste texting, "Oh my f***ing God, I swear to God, I'll kill u."
A 16-year-old California lifeguard is being invited to the White House ... President Trump plans to honor the teen who saved a young swimmer from pounding waves in a daring ocean rescue captured on video.
Ryder Williams was on duty at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz County over the weekend when a 10-year-old boy was struggling in some high surf ... he rushed in to help bring the boy back to safety, and it caught Trump's attention.
POTUS said Tuesday he'll invite the lifeguard and his family to D.C. to present him with a "High Civilian Honor."
Trump also said he might even invite the boy who was rescued.
Ian Diaz from Netflix's "A Toxic Love Story" is making moves to try and get out of prison ... and he's throwing his former lawyer under the bus in the process.
TMZ obtained a petition Ian filed, in which he argues his 10-year prison sentence should be vacated due to ineffective counsel at his trial.
Ian claims his former attorney failed to file appropriate paperwork to challenge the government's claims, failed to gather evidence, accept evidence provided to them, and various other things.
Lindsey Graham's funeral just wrapped in Washington ... and politicians from both parties gathered in the nation's capital to say goodbye to the longtime South Carolina senator.
President Trump delivered remarks during the funeral at Washington National Cathedral. He recalled his rocky start with Graham ... joking that leaking the senator's personal cell number during the 2016 campaign somehow became "the beginning of a friendship."
President Trump says E. Jean Carroll pulled a $5.6 million "bait-and-switch" ... claiming she promised to park his payout somewhere safe before moving it into a personal investment account.
In new court docs, obtained by TMZ, Trump says Carroll's attorney assured the court the money would be placed in an "interest-bearing account" after it left judicial control.
Trump claims the tune changed once Carroll got the cash ... with her legal team later revealing the funds were being held in a personal investment account for her retirement.
Gov. Gavin Newsom's former lover is pulling back the curtain on their affair ... revealing the lengths she went to get him alone -- and the advice Kamala Harrisgave her when the scandal exploded.
Ruby Rippey writes in a new Vanity Fair essay that professional boundaries with Newsom began crumbling while she worked as his secretary during his time as San Francisco mayor.
Rippey says she would scan Newsom's calendar for openings, show up wherever he was expected to be and make sure he spotted her before slipping away. She says her phone would soon light up with a text asking, "Where are you?"
John Fetterman did the unthinkable Tuesday on Capitol Hill ... he put on a suit and tie.
The Senator from Pennsylvania traded his signature hoodie and shorts for a jacket, pants, dress shirt and a tie ... as lawmakers waited to board buses to Lindsey Graham's funeral -- prompting our Charlie Cotton to ask how it felt to dress up for once.
Fetterman had a deadpan response ... proving the guy inside the suit is the same we've come to know inside the hoodie.
Bryan Kohberger pled guilty to 4 horrific murders of Idaho college students, but he says it's all his lawyers' fault ... claiming they advised him to confess when he was innocent all along.
On Monday, Kohberger shocked the world by filing a petition to withdraw his guilty plea in the 2022 stabbing deaths of Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen and Xana Kernodle, and Kernodle's boyfriend, Ethan Chapin, inside a house in Moscow, Idaho. All four victims attended the University of Idaho while Kohberger was enrolled at Washington State University.
In July 2025, Kohberger admitted in open court that he murdered the 4 students ... pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty under a plea deal that sent him to prison for life without parole.
But now, Kohberger wants to withdraw his guilty plea ... and he says in his petition that his lawyers -- Anne Taylor, Bicka Barlow and Jay Logsdon -- are to blame for his confession.
