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(WASHINGTON) — Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., said Sunday that President Joe Biden would never consider a pardon for his son Hunter Biden after a plea deal that the younger Biden agreed to on tax and gun charges fell apart last week. “I don’t think there’s any chance that President Biden is going to do that, unlike […]
(WASHINGTON) — A little more than a year after a gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killed 19 children and two teachers, actor Matthew McConaughey hopes to make schools safer through his Greenlights Grant Initiative. In an interview with ABC “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday, McConaughey, a Uvalde native, reflected on his […]
(NEW ORLEANS) — As extreme heat takes over the U.S., millions of Americans will be faced with the “urban heat island” effect. The lack of vegetation and shade, as well as an increase in paved surfaces and buildings, is causing temperatures to rise as much as 20 degrees in an urban area compared to surrounding […]
(NEW YORK) — More than 110 million Americans across 29 states are under heat alerts Saturday from southern California to Massachusetts. The Northeast has one more day of its first heat wave of the season, with highs reaching near 90 degrees along the I-95 corridor and heat indices in the upper 90s around 100. Excessive […]
ABC News (ATLANTA, Georgia) — A judge scheduled a hearing on former President Donald Trump’s motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia. The motion also seeks to quash the special purpose grand jury report that gathered much of the […]
KOMO (SEATTLE) — Five people were injured, two critically, in a shooting that broke out in a parking lot during a community outreach event in Seattle Friday night, police said. Police responded to reports of a shooting in a parking lot in Rainier Valley shortly before 9 p.m. local time Friday, according to Seattle Police […]
(HOUSTON) — Two teachers say they were fired from their school after attending a drag performance and posting about it on social media. Kristi Maris, one of the former teachers at the First Baptist Academy in Baytown, Texas, said she had worked at the school for roughly 20 years before she was terminated for attending […]
(NEW YORK) — The Jefferson County District Attorney’s Bessemer Division office has talked with police about potentially pressing charges against Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who told police she was kidnapped after she went missing for two days, prosecutors confirmed to ABC News. Chief Assistant District Attorney Lane Tolbert told ABC News on Thursday that […]
(GERMANTOWN, Tenn.) — A third section of Germantown, Tennessee, was allowed to resume drinking and using tap water Thursday, however, others remain under restrictions that have now been in effect for a week after it was discovered the water supply was contaminated with diesel fuel. The nightmare began for the city, a suburb of Memphis, […]
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Thursday announced steps to help communities keep cool and stay safe as deadly heat continues to blanket much of the U.S. Biden met virtually with the mayors of Phoenix and San Antonio, whose cities have endured record-breaking triple-digit temperatures, at the White House for a briefing on extreme heat […]
