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Amber Heard is denying Johnny Depp’s claims that she defecated in their bed — blaming it on the actor’s “lavatorial sense of humor.” A rep for the actress says the accusation that Heard, 34, or one of her friends put poop in the couple’s marital bed in 2016 is bogus and suggested that the “Pirates …

A federal judge Tuesday rejected a proposed global settlement against Harvey Weinstein over concerns that his accusers’ claims are too disparate for a class action. “Women who have been raped are entitled to a much greater recovery than women who just met Harvey Weinstein,” ruled U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein during a hearing in Manhattan …

Leaders in the black community are calling on the New York Police Department to bring back the plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit that was eliminated last month as shootings and murders spike across the city. About 600 undercover officers from the unit were set to be transferred to other assignments including detective work and policing neighborhoods, NYPD Commissioner …

The Supreme Court ruled early Tuesday morning that the Justice Department can resume its first federal executions in 17 years this week, hours after a D.C. judge issued an order temporarily halting the lethal injections. The unsigned, 5-4 opinion issued around 2 a.m. will allow four scheduled federal executions to proceed as planned and came …

A top prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced Monday that he is writing a book that will document the “mistakes” the team made over the course of their nearly two-year probe, including how they “could have done more” to prove collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Andrew Weissmann, an FBI general counsel for Special …

Willy Wonka has really let himself go. A humiliating photo of Johnny Depp snoozing while ice cream melts all over his crotch was shown in a British court Monday — as the “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” star continued to fend off allegations he beat ex-wife Amber Heard. Heard “showed me [the photo] the next …

Johnny Depp‘s assistant referred to Amber Heard as a “sociopathic show pony’’ and “Machiavellian overlord” — while the actor was obsessed with bathroom humor, according to testimony Monday. Stephen Deuters, Depp’s now-former righthand man, took the stand in British court and at first denied ever hearing his boss use terms such as “slut,” “whore” or …

Six Harvey Weinstein accusers want a judge to block the proposed $46.8 million global settlement against the convicted rapist and his production company, calling it one-sided and unfair. A lawyer for the women, Douglas Wigdor, filed a motion Monday in Manhattan federal court opposing the deal touted last month by New York state Attorney General …

A U.S. district judge issued a halt on all federal executions on Monday, hours before the scheduled lethal injection of an inmate in Indiana. The Trump administration has attempted to restart executions on the federal level after a 17-year pause. Judge Tanya Chutkan of the D.C. Circuit Court issued the latest delay, writing in her …

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) said Sunday that he will grant Democrats’ request to have former special counsel Robert Mueller testify about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election before the committee. Graham’s surprising statement came a day after Mueller broke his silence to defend his office’s prosecution of …