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Alec Baldwin has won a key legal battle that saw one of his charges over the deadly shooting of Halyna Hutchins dropped — drastically reducing the potential prison time he is facing.

The Santa Fe County District Attorney’s Office confirmed to The Post Monday that it had dropped a firearm enhancement to one of two involuntary manslaughter charges the “30 Rock” star was facing.

The child abusers and groomers at Disney are in so much trouble they have announced cutbacks on their Marvel and Star Wars content output.

Why is that news? Because Marvel and Stars Wars represent Disney’s most popular IPs. But now they have to cut back because the glut of products being released are almost universally awful, so awful they have 1) failed to boost the Disney+ subscriber base much and 2) are hurting the brands.

The actor Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with an untreatable form of dementia.

His family said his condition had worsened since the action movie star, 67, retired less than a year ago due to growing cognitive difficulties.

A statement said: “Since we announced Bruce’s diagnosis of aphasia in spring 2022, Bruce’s condition has progressed and we now have a more specific diagnosis: frontotemporal dementia.

Her quest for validation gets more tragic by the day.

We’ve all spent an inordinate amount of time looking at Madonna. Hers, after all, is the face that launched a thousand dissertations. But now she is quite cross that we’ve seen a photograph of her at last weekend’s Grammy Awards, probably the last place in the universe you’d want to be if you were in any way trying to avoid your appearance receiving robust critique.

The family of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was shot dead by Alec Baldwin in a 2021 on-set accident, is set to file a new lawsuit against the disgraced actor.

Famed lawyer Gloria Allred will be representing the Hutchins family, she announced in a press release.

Baldwin already settled with the family in October in a separate civil suit — the terms of which were not publicly disclosed — and it’s not immediately clear what the grounds are for the new suit.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Defense attorneys for actor Alec Baldwin are seeking to disqualify the special prosecutor in the case against him stemming from the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set.

In a motion filed Tuesday in Santa Fe-based district court, Baldwin’s legal team said Andrea Reeb’s position as a state lawmaker prohibits her under state law from holding any authority in a judicial capacity.

Reeb is “exercising either the executive power or the judicial power, and her continued service as a special prosecutor is unconstitutional,” Baldwin’s team argued in the motion.

Satan’s, aka Sam Smith’s, unholy singing at the Grammy’s.

My sincere hope for the future involves the abolition of all-star games and awards shows. They feel like lame relics from the 20th Century. I missed the NFL Pro Bowl, to the extent it still exists, but I watched part of the Grammys on Sunday just to affirm my alienation from a culture on which I do keep tabs.

I am underwhelmed by the insipidness of evil.

Several members of the ‘Rust’ cast and crew may be called to testify against Alec Baldwin as he faces involuntary manslaughter charges.

Baldwin and Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were formally charged last week for the death of Halyna Hutchins on the low-budget Western’s New Mexico set in October 2021.

Prosecutors allege Baldwin shot the gun that killed Hutchins while Gutierrez-Reed didn’t check the gun given to the hot shot actor before it was handed to him.

The actor Alec Baldwin and the armorer on the film “Rust” were charged on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of the movie’s cinematographer, according to court papers, filed in the First Judicial District Court in New Mexico, in which prosecutors accused them of failing to follow standard film safety protocols on set.

In a statement of probable cause against Mr. Baldwin filed in the court, Robert Shilling, a special investigator for the district attorney’s office, outlined the ways prosecutors claim that the actor had behaved negligently on set. They accused him of not receiving sufficient training on firearms, of failing to deal with safety complaints on set, of “putting his finger on the trigger of a real firearm when a replica or rubber gun should have been used” and of pointing the firearm at the film’s cinematographer and director.

That seems a harsh headline from the NYTimes? Have Left attitudes to Baldwin changed?

Alec Baldwin has officially been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust,” officials announced Tuesday.

A damning document filed by New Mexico prosecutors claimed Baldwin had not been properly trained with firearms ahead of the movie, that he pulled the trigger of the gun and shortly after even told officers he had fired the weapon.

The Santa Fe County district attorney called his actions during the fatal shooting a “reckless deviation from known standards and practice.”

Alec Baldwin will be formally charged with involuntary manslaughter Tuesday in the death of “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Criminal charges against the “30 Rock” star, along with the Western film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, were announced earlier this month, though not officially filed.

“The District Attorney and the special prosecutor are fully focused on securing justice for Halyna Hutchins,” said Heather Brewer, a spokesperson for First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies’ office in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “The evidence and the facts speak for themselves.”