Via ABC News.(NEW YORK) -- Over 85 million Americans are under cold weather alerts over the next few days as arctic air plunges south across the country.Portions of North Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have an extreme cold warning in effect as wind chills may reach...
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Menendez brothers’ resentencing hearing postponed due to impact of wildfires
Erik and Lyle Menendez booking photos taken Oct. 10, 2024. Via CRDC.(LOS ANGELES) -- The resentencing hearing for the Menendez brothers has been postponed nearly two months due to the wildfires impacting Los Angeles County, the county's lead prosecutor said...
What to know about Secret Service inauguration security before Monday’s event
400tmax/Getty(WASHINGTON) -- Two apparent assassination attempts, a terrorist-inspired attack in New Orleans, an explosion in Las Vegas and a pair of global conflicts see President-elect Donald Trump returning to the Oval Office under circumstances that can only be...
LA fires live updates: Mayor names chief recovery officer, plans outside probe
Apu Gomes/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 27 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely...
Alabama community demands accountability for flood damage before Biden’s term ends
Jared Kofsky/ABC News(SHILOH, Ala.) -- At a recent church service in Cleveland, a group of visitors from a rural Alabama community nearly 900 miles away, including pastor and business owner Timothy Williams, joined congregants in singing the spiritual "I Don't Mind...
Former CIA analyst pleads guilty to leaking Israeli retaliation plans
Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- A former CIA analyst arrested in November and charged with leaking highly classified records showing Israeli plans to launch a retaliatory strike on Iran pleaded guilty Friday in a federal court in Virginia.Asif Rahman,...
Los Angeles wildfires timeline: How the deadly blazes unfolded
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Los Angeles County has been devastated by two deadly wildfires that have become some of the most destructive in California history.The Palisades and Eaton fires both erupted on Jan. 7, fueled by severe drought conditions...
Trump urges Georgia Supreme Court to keep DA Fani Willis disqualified from election interference case
Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- President-elect Donald Trump, in a court filing Friday, urged the Georgia Supreme Court to keep Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis disqualified from the criminal election interference case against him.The...
Trump AG pick Pam Bondi made at least $3 million from Truth Social merger, filings show
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, made at least $3 million from the merger that formed the parent company of Trump's Truth Social platform, her new personal financial...
Federal judge to decide fate of Jack Smith’s final report on Trump’s classified docs case
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Six months after a federal judge dismissed special counsel Jack Smith's classified documents case against Donald Trump and his two co-defendants, defense attorneys are set to return to Florida to try to prevent the limited...
Rare Gulf Coast winter storm may hit next week: Latest forecast
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A developing winter storm may bring rare snow and ice to cities along the Gulf Coast, from Texas to Florida.The storm is set to hit the region on Tuesday.It is too early to say how much snow or ice will fall, but the rare event could pose a major...
LA fires live updates: 18 missing as death toll rises
Apu Gomes/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 25 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely...
Biden pardons nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders
Mandel Ngan - Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden has now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in history, after announcing Friday that he was pardoning nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders.Biden said in the...
2 dead, 2 injured after man attacks group of people with a stick
mbbirdy/Getty Images(MIAMI) -- Two people are dead, and two others have been injured after a man allegedly attacked a group of homeless people with a stick, police said.Police in Miami, Florida, say that units responded after 6 a.m. on Thursday to reports of an armed...
Altadena family recounts their harrowing escape from Eaton Fire
ABC News(LOS ANGELES) -- The Los Angeles wildfires have destroyed thousands of structures since Jan. 7. In Altadena, north of Pasadena, the Eaton Fire has damaged or destroyed 7,000 structures.One of the structures destroyed by the fire was the home Erion and Stephan...
Southwest Airlines pilot arrested, allegedly intoxicated, at Georgia airport ahead of flight
Savannah Airport Police Dept.(GEORGIA) -- A Southwest Airlines pilot was arrested this week for allegedly reporting to work at a Georgia airport intoxicated, causing his Chicago-bound flight to be delayed for hours.The pilot, identified as 52-year-old David Allsop,...
Giuliani gets to keep apartments, World Series rings in settlement with election workers
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Rudy Giuliani reached a settlement agreement with two former election workers he was found to have defamed, a joint letter from both parties said Thursday.The former New York City mayor had been a no-show to his non-jury civil...
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul deploys more cops to subway system after high-profile crimes
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Users of the nation's largest subway system will start seeing New York City police officers on every overnight train starting Monday as Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a strategy Thursday to tamp down rider anxiety that has been...
Elapses size of San Francisco: LA fires carve mark on history
Jon Putman/Anadolu via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Even as four wildfires continued to burn in Los Angeles County on Thursday, the blazes were already rewriting the record books.Over the last nine days, seven fires have broken out across the nation's second-largest...
LA fires live updates: Palisades investigators have gathered 150 leads, official says
Apu Gomes/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- At least 25 people have died as multiple wildfires, fueled by severe drought conditions and strong winds, rage across the Los Angeles area.Thousands of firefighters are battling wildfires across 45 square miles of densely...