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(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced that it has approved Casgevy, the first CRISPR gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease, paving the way for thousands of patients in the U.S. to receive a treatment that has been described as a “functional cure” for eligible patients. The FDA also […]
(NEW YORK) — Six more schools are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for reports of discrimination on their campuses, according to the agency. Tulane University in Louisiana, Union College in New York, Cobb County School District in Georgia, University of Cincinnati in Ohio, Santa Monica College in California, and Montana State University […]
(NEW YORK) — A group of high school students are being hailed as heroic Good Samaritans for their efforts to save a mother and her two young children. The mom and her children, ages 2 and 3, were walking to their car in a school parking lot Tuesday afternoon in Layton, Utah, when they were […]
(NEW YORK) — Five years into a federal probe of his personal and professional life, President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, is facing additional legal exposure in the coming months after a summer punctuated by setbacks. U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a Trump-era appointee who has since been elevated to special counsel, has indicted the younger […]
(LAS VEGAS) — Three faculty members were killed and one faculty member was injured in a mass shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on Wednesday. The suspect — who had applied for a college professorship at UNLV, but was not hired, according to sources — died at the scene following a firefight with […]
(NEW YORK) — A Black man whose arrest in Alabama earlier this month went viral on social media is speaking out amid an investigation into the local police department. “I try to act OK but I am really traumatized. I don’t know how to feel about police now,” Micah Washington told ABC affiliate WBMA in […]
(NEW YORK) — Special counsel David Weiss leveled a nine-count indictment against Hunter Biden late Thursday, accusing President Joe Biden’s son of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2020. The charges, which carry a penalty of up to 17 years in prison, include six misdemeanor charges and three felonies, including alleged […]
(NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million civil lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric Trump and and Donald Trump Jr., and other top Trump Organization executives are accused […]
(MANCHESTER, N.H.) — ABC News, partnering with WMUR-TV, announced Thursday it will host a Republican presidential primary debate in New Hampshire next month, just days ahead of its first-in-the-nation GOP primary election. Held in coordination with the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, the Thursday Jan. 18 debate will take place at Saint Anselm College in […]
(LAS VEGAS) — The deceased suspect in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas shooting has been identified as Anthony Polito, 67, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News Wednesday night. Las Vegas police named Polito as the suspect at a media briefing on Thursday. Polito had applied for a college professorship at UNLV, but was […]
