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(ATLANTA) — One of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election interference case rejected a plea deal from prosecutors ahead of his trial this month, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. Attorney Kenneth Chesebro, one of the 18 defendants charged alongside Trump in Fulton County case racketeering case, rejected an offer […]
(WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will address to the nation Thursday to update Americans on the U.S. response to the Hamas attacks, the White House said. The 8 p.m. ET Oval Office speech comes a day after Biden’s high-stakes visit to Israel where he pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow aid from Egypt into […]
(WASHINGTON) — A former Ohio State University student-athlete is speaking out against Rep. Jim Jordan’s bid for House speaker, saying Jordan “turned a blind eye” to allegations of abuse against a team doctor during his time as assistant coach for the university’s wrestling team. Rocky Ratliff is now an attorney who also represents several other […]
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Approximately 300 people were arrested by Capitol Police during a large-scale demonstration on Wednesday against the Israel-Hamas war, a Capitol Police spokesperson said. Most were arrested for demonstrating in the Capitol, according to the spokesperson. Hundreds of people had gathered in and outside of the U.S. Capitol complex on Wednesday […]
(NEW YORK) — A woman is in critical condition after being “forcibly shoved” into a moving subway train in New York City and then falling onto the tracks, police said. A male suspect in the apparent random attack is being sought, police said. The “horrific assault” occurred at the 53rd Street/Fifth Avenue station in midtown […]
(AURORA, Colo.) — The second trial in connection with the death of 23-year-old Elijah McClain following an altercation with Aurora, Colorado, police began Tuesday. Nathan Woodyard was the first police officer on the scene in August 2019 and he put McClain in a carotid hold. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges of manslaughter […]
(NEW YORK) — Joran van der Sloot, the main suspect in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal extortion charges related to the Alabama teenager’s disappearance and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. As a part of the plea deal, van der Sloot agreed to provide information about the 18-year-old’s disappearance […]
(TULSA, Okla.) — More than 100 years after many of Tulsa’s Black residents were killed and their businesses were destroyed by white rioters, the community, including a woman who survived the massacre, is still finding ways to rebuild and seek justice. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, white Tulsa residents set fire and bombed several […]
(NEW YORK) — Douglass Mackey, the social media influencer known as “Ricky Vaughn,” was sentenced Wednesday to seven months in prison for falsely assuring supporters of Hillary Clinton they could cast their vote in the 2016 presidential election through text messages or social media posts. Mackey was prosecuted under the Ku Klux Klan Act that was […]
(LANSING, Mich.) — A person attempted to breach Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s summer home in August, just months after the conviction of 9 men in a plot to kidnap the governor, according to a statement from Whitmer’s chief of staff. “We received a report of an individual attempting to breach the governor’s property through a restricted […]
