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(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida Friday to keep up her “fight” back against new, controversial Black history standards approved unanimously this week by the state’s board of education. Among the changes approved Wednesday was a section of “benchmark clarifications,” and among those was one that states “instruction includes how slaves […]
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — The grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election did not meet on Friday, according to sources. Court security confirmed to ABC News Friday morning that the grand jury would not be convening. Special counsel Jack Smith informed Trump by letter […]
(WASHINGTON) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis this week refused to call the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol an “insurrection” and blamed the press for having “spun up” the attack to “get as much mileage out of it and use it for partisan and political aims.” In Friday’s interview on the “Stay Free […]
(LINCOLN, Neb.) — A 26-year-old Nebraska man accused of posing as a high school student at two different schools has been arrested on sex crime charges, police said. Zachary Scheich, of Lincoln, faces three felony charges — two counts of sexual assault, use of an electronic device, and one count of sex trafficking of a […]
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Friday warned Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott that his administration’s use of ballards — or buoys — in the Rio Grande river to stop migrants could bring legal action. “The State of Texas’s actions violate federal law, raise humanitarian concerns, present serious risks to […]
(MIDDLETOWN, Conn.) — The Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action nationwide was based on what was described as a fundamental sense of fairness. The rationale was that a student’s college acceptance should rely on their grades, not on race. Opponents of the ruling immediately pointed to the fact that colleges have lots of special […]
Birmingham Police Department (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — Police in Birmingham, Alabama, are urging the public to come forward with information as they continue their search for the gunman who shot two firefighters inside a fire station last week. No motive is known, but authorities believe it was a targeted attack, a Birmingham police spokesman told ABC […]
(WASHINGTON) — New details emerged Friday that might provide clues in the mystery about why a 23-year-old U.S. Army private crossed the border into North Korea earlier this week. A U.S. official confirms that on Sept. 4, 2022, Pvt. Travis King failed to report for his daily formation, and when reached away from the base […]
RapidEye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Trump Organization and former President Donald Trump’s one-time attorney Michael Cohen agreed Friday to settle a million-dollar dispute, just days before a jury trial was scheduled to start. Cohen had accused the Trump Organization of failing to pay his legal fees of about $1 million. The two sides announced […]
Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The relatives of Gilgo Beach, New York, murder suspect Rex Heuermann are “going through a devastating time,” their attorney said in a statement Friday. Heuermann’s arrest “is taking an emotional toll,” the attorney said, adding that Heuermann’s wife, who filed for divorce on Wednesday, has […]
