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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Justice Department and attorneys for President Donald Trump on Friday asked a federal appeals court in New York to delay oral arguments scheduled for next week in Trump’s appeal of his $83 million defamation case. Trump is appealing a 2024 verdict ordering him to pay former magazine columnist […]

(ROCKY RIVER, Ohio) — A suspect in an alleged road rage incident involving Ohio Rep. Max Miller has turned himself in, police said, a day after the Republican congressman said he was run off the road by a man waving a Palestinian flag. The incident, which comes amid a heightened environment of political violence, occurred […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A federal judge has ordered the release of Columbia University pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil, a green card holder who is married to an American citizen, was arrested by ICE agents in New York City in March. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. Copyright © 2025, […]

(HAWAII) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano is erupting again in spectacular fashion, sending lava shooting 1,000 feet into the sky, according to the United States Geological Survey. On Friday morning, “Episode 26” of the ongoing eruption at Halemaʻumaʻu — the pit crater within Kīlauea Caldera at the summit of the volcano — spewed lava fountains that […]

(NEW YORK) — A dangerous heat wave is moving in, with more than 100 million people from the Midwest to the Northeast on alert for life-threatening temperatures. The widespread heat alerts are first impacting Midwest states including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska and South Dakota. The heat index — what the temperature feels like with humidity — […]

(MEMPHIS, Tenn.) — A man accused of trespassing at the home of the Memphis, Tennessee, mayor has been charged with attempted kidnapping and stalking, according to police, who said the suspect had a Taser, gloves, rope and duct tape in his vehicle at the time of his arrest. The suspect — 25-year-old Trenton Abston — […]

(BOSTON) — A woman on the jury that voted to acquit Karen Read this week on murder and manslaughter charges spoke exclusively to ABC News, telling Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman she believed “a collision did not occur” and that a “sloppy police investigation” sunk the case for the prosecution. “I think, with the evidence […]

(MINNEAPOLIS) — Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife are crediting their daughter Hope for “saving countless other lives” on the night the couple was shot and wounded at their home in what prosecutors called an assassination attempt. “Without Hope, we wouldn’t be here right now,” the Democratic state senator and his wife said in a […]

(NEW YORK) — Warming waters are causing the colors of the ocean to change — a trend that could impact humans if it were to continue, according to new research. Satellite data shows that ocean waters are getting greener at the poles and bluer toward the equator, according to a paper published Thursday in the […]